Insta Review: All the Broken Pieces, by Anne E. Burg

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram What is it about a novel in verse that just kicks you in the stomach? At ten years old, Matt was airlifted away from his mother and little brother in Vietnam and taken to America […]

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Insta Review: Sprinkle with Murder, by Jen McKinlay

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Notice the creased cover and folded pages of the paperback in the photo? Inside, many pages are taped together or hanging on by a thread. This is what a truly loved book looks like! One […]

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Mozfest 2017

Is That Real?: Preparing Students to Outfox Fake News from St. Anne’s-Belfield School on Vimeo. Pack your bags – we’re taking this show on the road! This Wednesday, Ms. Wilkens and I will be headed to London, England to talk information literacy, fake news, and computer science with educators, artists, and community leaders from all […]

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Insta Review: Counting Thyme by Melanie Conklin

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram One sentence into the plot description of Counting Thyme, and my sixth graders were pushing and shoving to get in line for this novel. Thyme loves her home in San Diego – the sunshine, her […]

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Coming Soon: 6th Grade Book Club – George, by Alex Gino

WHO: 6th grade readers who choose to sign up. As always, this book club is completely optional! WHAT: A book club to discuss George, a book about having the courage to be your true self; which sometimes means having to choose between being accepted and being who you truly are. On the outside George looks like a boy, […]

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#IADWAYR – October 10, 2017

In today’s episode of #IADWAYR, 5th graders in Core 2 answer the question: It’s A Day, What Are You Reading?

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Insta Review: We are Growing! by Laurie Keller

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram This book made me the HAPPIEST! My kindergarteners were out of their minds excited when the opening pages to We Are Growing showed Elephant and Piggie praising it as one of their favorite reads. And […]

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#IADWAYR – September 28, 2017

In today’s episode of #IADWAYR, 5th graders in Core 4 answer the question: It’s A Day, What Are You Reading?

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Insta Review: The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram I wish I could step into the brain of Peter Brown. Author and illustrator of picture book mega hits like Creepy Carrots and My Teacher is a Monster, I feel like his brain would be […]

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