October is the best month of the year. October brings golden leaves, baseball playoffs, high school football, and Halloween. It’s no wonder so many authors and musicians have written about this most evocative of months. Consider this passage from Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes:
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The Best October Poetry, Books and Music
September 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Book Lists, Music, Poetry, Reading Recommendations
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Recommended Reading List for Junior High by Nancie Atwell
September 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Book Lists, Reading Recommendations, Teen Literacy
Nancie Atwell’s book The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers is a manifesto for change in reading classrooms. She successfully argues that the key to reading instruction is to arrange our teaching so that students can engage in “frequent, voluminous, self-selected reading.” To help teachers develop classroom libraries of [...]
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100 Recommended Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for Junior High Students
September 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Book Lists, Literature, Reading Recommendations, Science Fiction
My list of 300 Recommended Books for Junior High Students may have been erroneously removed from Scribd (see my article about this here, and the ars technica article here), but it’s not forgotten. Today I’m reproducing the science fiction and fantasy portions of the list for those of you who are interested. What’s more, I’ve [...]
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