interviews (one group interview in each school year) were made with a total of 30 students (5 girls and 5 boys from each course) in order to read to them for the first time, the feminist story,The Paper Bag Princess. We choseThe Paper Bag Princessbecause the story addresses feminist iss...
Like many boys growing up in the mid-20th century, the catalytic books for me were sports stories by John R.Tunis.These were the books that first propelled me into reading and a life of helping children find the books they can and want to read, enabling them to make reading a central ...
More than anything, I began to realize what a huge disservice I’d done to my students that first year by holding back so many Secrets and waiting for my reading series to introduce them. But we live and learn, and when we know better, we do better….which brings me back to October....
The sequel to the author’sMy Father Had a Daughter,a tale of Judith in her youth,The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughterrevisits this character for the ages—Shakespeare’s sharp-tongued, witty youngest child, no less feisty in her maturity. Four-hundred years after Judith’s death, Grace Tiffan...
graders, but I stopped attending it after the fifth grade due to a cross-country move my parents made that summer for a new job. The new school my family enrolled me in only taught it to fifth graders, so little Lydia wasn’t eligible for it when she started the sixth grade that ...
If you are looking for a fun way to help kids being Reading CVC Words, you will will love thisfree CVC printablesfor preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Thiscvc words with pictures pdf free downloadis such a fun way to help early readers work on sounding words out...
BALTIMORE - For the first time, wearing their robes, Maryland judges stepped out of their courtrooms and into classrooms full of curious third graders Wednesday morning. Judges from the Supreme Court of Maryland, the Appellate Court of Maryland, local circuit courts and the dist...
It’s free!http://doyou10Q.comand#DoYou10Qare the connection points. You can respond to all 10 Questions fromOctober 2 through October 12(and a day or so afterwards), online, and have them put into the “vault” for yourself for next year’s reflections. ...
This fall, he will join Teach For China’s Chinese Recruiting team to work as full-time staff. Read his story to find out more about what he learned from his time as a Fellow and how he decided to stay involved with Teach For China. I remember the first day I walked into my ...
It was the '60s. The era of change, war, and rebellion. Huey Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was a revolutionary with a vision, first for self-defense against racist policing and then for an “intercommunal” world of bottom-up social reform. He wanted to change the...