Viva Las Vegas - The Experience of a Lifetime. What a wonderful, exciting, life-changing experience! The Teachers Pay Teachers team did not disappoint! I met so many new people, finally got to put an actual face with a name, and learned so much. The Fabulous Secondary Networking Leaders.

A blog about being a teacher, reader, and mother. All about sharing books with children, teaching children to read, and teaching children to love books. Dedicated to childrens books, and MG and YA fiction. Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Emergent readers are in that magic stage in reading development when all of the experiences with books, all of the practice singing the alphabet, all of the exposure to words, and the introduction of phonics skill finally come together.

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Sunday, July 12, 2015. Wow, I certainly fell off the bandwagon with my LLAP posts. I have a REEALLYY good excuse! I was so focused on getting prepared and ready for my big trip that I ran out of time to write down my thoughts from this awesome chapter on giving classroom responsibilities to your students. But before I get too far down that rabbit hole, I do need to give Paul Solarz a HUGE. Shout-out for answering my questions from my chapter 4 post.

Turning each day into a new adventure. Thursday, August 13, 2015. And I want to spend more time living intentionally and doing the things that make me happy with the people I love. So this post is going to be VERY different than my usual ramblings.

Sunday, August 9, 2015. Back to School Must Haves. When I go shopping for back to school items there are certain things that are always on my list.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Focus, Stamina, and Building a Reading Life. The first strategy I want to highlight from this Goal is Strategy 2. Allowing your students to have a choice about where they read is critical. Choice is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS powerful! Focus, Monitoring for Meaning.