Weekend Round Up June 7
Monday May Favorites In this post, we re-share the most popular blogs posted on Burkins and Yaris during the month of May 2013. Tuesday Educational Innovation: Pushing Ourselves to Go “Above and...
View ArticleThe Query of Summer Readers: To Read or Not to Read
The end of the school year signals different things to different people, but if you’re at all like us, you might be thinking about the progress your students have made as readers and worried about what...
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Honing the Reading Radar with the Power of Suggestion
As summer vacation beckons, we have been thinking a lot about summer reading. In yesterday’s post, we mentioned the importance of continuing to share book blurbs and excerpts of books that might...
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Friday Favorites: Independent Reading
Yesterday’s Thursday Thoughts have become today’s Friday Favorites, as the pseudo-summer schedule has thrown our internal clocks off. Time feels a little loose and, despite being busy with tasks, we...
View ArticleWeekend Round Up: June 15
Monday The Query of Summer Readers: To Read or Not to Read In this post, we remind teachers to carve out time to talk about books as the school year draws to a close to inspire children to read over...
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What’s On Jan’s Reading Radar?
Despite writing about balancing students’ reading diets, I have recently come to terms with the imbalance in my own reading life. While I read constantly and collect books like a mad woman hoarding...
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Great Non-fiction for Teaching the Common Core
As we mentioned last week, we are working with Lerner Publisher to help them reorganize their catalog. We are also aligning their books to the Common Core State Standards. When we received ALL the...
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More Great Non-fiction: Connections Between Literacy and Art
Given our connection to Literacyhead, it’s no surprise that we are partial to books that either use visual art to teach content or are simply about art. This has been a pleasantly surprising theme...
View ArticleThursday Thoughts: What is the Opposite of Complex?
This week we have reviewed several of the books we have been reading for Lerner Publishing. We’ve talked a bit about connecting texts and want to revisit the idea of letting books support readers...
View ArticleWeekend Round Up June 22
Monday What’s on Jan’s Reading Radar In this post, Jan shares the books she is planning to read this summer. Tuesday Great Non-Fiction for Teaching the Common Core In this post, we share some titles...
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More Great Non-Fiction: Connections between Literacy and Sports
In last week’s post, Great Non-Fiction for the Common Core, we introduced you to two titles, The Girl Who Struck out Babe Ruth and The Baseball Adventure of Jackie Mitchell, two books written on two...
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More Great Non-fiction: Genre Conundrums
In the process of building libraries from the 1200+ Lerner titles we are working among, we have stumbled yet again into the Common Core’s genre conundrum. We were organizing a collection of mentor...
View ArticleThursday Thoughts: What Should Students Read?
Over the past two weeks we’ve reviewed a host of wonderful children’s books. As you think about how these books might fit into your classroom and/or your instruction, we thought we would make a...
View ArticleWeekend Round Up June 29
Monday More Great Non-Fiction: Connections Between Literacy and Sports In this post, we look at several unique sports picture books offered by Lerner publishers. Tuesday More Great Non-Fiction: Genre...
View ArticleJune Favorites
So, by now, we expect that most educators have completed the 2012-2013 school year and have settled in their summer routines. No matter how you might be spending your time, we hope that it offers you...
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50 American Heroes
We are marking our nation’s birthday by celebrating with our families, so we are taking the rest of the week off from blogging. We leave you with a patriotic book recommendation: 50 American Heroes...
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Twitter and a Leap of Faith
As we have traveled and met teachers in various parts of the country, we are often asked questions about our work on this blog. People seem curious about things like how we met and our writing...
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Long-distance Collaboration: Frequently Asked Questions, Part II
When people learn that Jan lives in Athens, Georgia and Kim lives on Long Island, they are often surprised. They want to know how we manage writing and posting our frequen blogs when we live so far...
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Blogging So Much! (Frequently Asked Questions, Part III)
Today’s blog is our 378th post which over sixteen months of blogging makes a pretty clear statement: We write A LOT! People often ask us how we decided how much we would write and how we maintain such...
View ArticleThursday Thought: Our Top Ten Tips for Writing Partners
This week, we have been strolling down memory lane and reflecting on our process for creating and maintaining this blog. To round out this week, we return you to a gaffe that happened last August that...
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