Looking for January read alouds for kids? These are some of best winter picture books for kindergarten or first grade! Children love them!
I asked for suggestions for early reader chapter books to use for read alouds as I search for the 2023 Global Read Aloud titles and thanks to so many great suggestions, I now have a list of more than 70 excellent books geared toward the younger years of reading when kids are ready to d...
Then hubs wanted to bother him for an autograph, but he was with his rather large family and I told him we shouldn’t. Our kids were excited since they love the American Girl movie, Kit, in which he played Kit’s dad. (RANDOM SIDENOTE: I’m watching Jimmy Kimmel now & Chris O’Do...
I wrote a quickie booknotes post last night in the five minutes between work and family movie time, but I took it down a short while later because it wastooquick, too silent about events I actually have quite a lot of words for. Choice words. Not all of them fit for my kids’ ears...
Probably not a shock to many, but still something to sit with for all. I used to not notice. That’s what happens when White privileges blinds you to seemingly obvious things. I would gladly go with the suggestions not thinking about skin color or ethnic heritage as the read alouds were...
how we treat kids, and also the educational framework we place them in. But it is also in the day-to-day, the videos we show of speakers, the read alouds we use, the mentor texts we share, the images, and the quotes we use. Whose stories are we constantly framing our learning in...
Stop interrupting.How many read alouds have we interrupted to ask just one more question? How many times have students been in the zone working and we have borken their concentration to do a quick check-in. I think I do it because that looks like teaching to me; a busy teacher asking ...