Cleaning Out the Inbox

The past few months have been dominated by busy, busy writing agendas, and my inbox has been filling up with articles and resources for bookmarking. I haven't really had the time to dig in to these materials yet, but I'm excited about the examples they offer to share with my preservice teachers.
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READING

• On Interactive Read-alouds with Jon Klassen Texts
• On Blogging Children's Literature
• On Resources on Reading Development
• On Picture Walks
• On Engaging Multiple Perspectives on Representation: These sources illustrate conflicting interpretations of a popular children's text, Smoky Night.
  • Positive review of Smoky Night
  • Critical review of Smoky Night
• ​On Modules for Reading Development
• Teacher's Blog: The Literacy Nest
• On Explicit Comprehension Instruction
• Online Textbook Addressing Literacy Assessment (among other topics)
• On Teacher Education and Teaching Reading

WRITING

• On Writing Inspiration from author Kate DiCamillo

• On the Post-Process Writing Classroom
• On Moving Beyond Form-First Writing Instruction