This post is for my Twitter pals to share with colleagues who think Twitter is about following the Biebs or curating an image when you have no life. [thank you TV sitcoms…] To my Twitter pals, the following (no pun intended –and no reference to the above photo…) is a no-brainer. However, so many fellow… Read more »
Category: Author Visits
The More We Read Together
January marks the beginning of so many I LOVE TO READ events, I thought I’d share this video of my reading song, The More We Read Together. I sing it to the little ones at school visits and Family Reading Nights, and many teachers have asked me to post it somewhere. Click on the photo… Read more »
Skyping with schools is WRAD! World Read Aloud Day
On Tuesday, March 7th, World Read Aloud Day, I visited schools in South Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, two schools in Texas, and back to my home state of California–without leaving my office! First stop: the 5th graders at Langford Elementary in South Carolina. With each of the upper grade classes I visited, I read aloud from… Read more »
Celebrate Dr. Seuss and teach prepositional phrases!
According to Charles D. Cohen’s Seuss biography, THE SEUSS AND NOTHING BUT THE SEUSS (Random House/2004), Ted Geisel loved playing with words. Even at age 14, he wrote “O Latin,” a parody of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain, My Captain!” for the Recorder. So why not celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday (or just have fun teaching prepositional… Read more »
I Love to Read (and explore) Brazil–part 5
O fim de semana, (which you now know, faithful blog-readers,–if you’ve read part 4–means On the weekend), we discovered one of the wonders of South America–Foz do Iguacu aka Iguazu Falls, located on the border of Argentina’s province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Parana. (I’m missing proper accents here. Disculpe. I’m sorry.) Think Niagra Falls in… Read more »