Beer for Books: A Community Summer Reading Program

Happy Spring!

As we start to think about spring, we also need to consider the summer reading loss.  Many student experience a loss with their reading skills during the summer months. Here is my article from Illinois Reading Council JournalSpring 2017, Vol. 45 No.2, pp. 29-33. This article describes how a local volunteer group – Friends of Andersonville – developed a summer reading program with local business sponsorship.

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4 Strategies for Implementing the CCSS in a Balanced Literacy Classroom

Within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) there is a powerful new lens and shift of awareness to language. Continue reading “4 Strategies for Implementing the CCSS in a Balanced Literacy Classroom”