Stacey Loscalzo

Archive for April, 2012

Apr 13

Loving Pinterest

by Stacey

I am trying very, very hard not to fall in to the big black hole that is Pinterest. But boy, is it hard to resist… The adorable image above courtesy of some time lost while browsing some of the many wonderful things to see on Pinterest…          

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Apr 12

Not Disappointed

by Stacey

I’ve written before about the joy I feel when books that are hyped are actually worth all the excitement that surrounds them. I had heard and read so much about two books lately that when I saw them in my favorite book store this week, I wondered. Would they be any good at all? No […]

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Apr 11

Powerful Read Aloud

by Stacey

I discovered the Nie Nie Dialogues in 2008 shortly after the plane crash that left Stephanie with burns over 80% of her body. At the time, Stephanie’s sisters were writing updates about her condition and the blogosphere was abuzz with talk and ways to help. Somehow, as blogs will tend to do, Stephanie’s fell off my […]

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Apr 10

Happy 6th Birthday

by Stacey

Dear Katherine, Today you turn six. It is true that when your ‘baby’ turns six, it makes you stop in your tracks. There will no longer be a little kid in our house. You are growing and growing and growing. It is hard to call you ‘the little one’ anymore. You have become such a […]

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Apr 09

Collected Experiences

by Stacey

The other day I spoke with my friend Donna over lunch about the amazing website, Married With Luggage. I have mentioned them before as Warren helps me often with the behind the scenes here at this blog. I was talking jealously about Warren and wife, Betsy, who are traveling the world and writing about their adventures. […]

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Apr 06

Read, Read, Read

by Stacey

Twice today I had the chance to bemoan how little I have been reading lately. Over lunch with a dear friend, I talked and talked about where all the time seems to go, how tired we are at the end of our over-scheduled days and how hard it is to read long enough to get […]

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Apr 05

It Works!

by Stacey

I have a client who is reading lots of Read Together books with me. She loves reading what she perceives to be “real books” and her smile glows when we are reading. While I adore seeing new readers so happy, I also am thrilled when I see true reading growth coming out of this simple […]

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Apr 04

A Nearly Perfect Book

by Stacey

  Oh No, George! is a nearly perfect book. It is a Read Together book. There are many repeating lines throughout the book that, after modeling, the emergent reader will be able to read independently. It is perfect for working with older children on inference and prediction.  And it is funny. At a workshop the other […]

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Apr 02

by Stacey

Over a year ago now I wrote this post. It tells the tale of a day that I drove from Caroline and Katherine’s elementary school to a school just 10 miles from here. I left our well stocked and staffed school library to go to a school in a neighboring district that had no library, […]

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