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Thursday, January 5, 2012

A Reading Life

Donalyn Miller, the author of the Book Whisperer, recently wrote this on her BLOG.  I feel this would be a great challenge for all Esperanza stakeholders to do as well. 

On Tuesday [after Christmas vacation], when my students return to school, we will reflect on our reading lives over the past year and plan ahead. Whether my students decide to read more books, or finish that series they never did, or spend a little more time reading every night, or reread The Hunger Games before the movie comes out in March, they will all commit in some way to continuing their reading lives in 2012. How and what and when we read doesn't matter as much as our willingness to keep reading. That's the only reading resolution we need.

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