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Words To Live By

Words To Live By

One of my favorite Fiction Notice and Note Signposts is the Words of the Wiser. If you haven’t read Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst (both fiction and nonfiction), then you are missing out. Words of the Wiser: When you’re reading and a character (probably older and…
Notice and Note Fiction Signposts

Notice and Note Fiction Signposts

Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading Written by Kylene Beers and Robert L. Probst Published November 2012 Fiction Signposts This book and the strategies I’ve learned from it have changed the way I teach reading to my students. We have been covering the fiction signposts in class these last…
July Wrap Up and August TBR

July Wrap Up and August TBR

For the month of July, I think I set a pretty lofty goal. I was close and read 5/6 books on my list, with an additional book not on my list. Here are the books I completed for July (in order read): The Giver by Lois Lowry The Hobbit by…