The Teaching of Reading BlogThis blog is part of the larger website called Literacy Connections: Promoting Literacy and Love of Reading, and is one of the dozens of fantastic resources and services available through the site. The Teaching of Reading blog is full of entertaining, informative and useful posts such as: Using Readers’ Theater in the Classroom; Conquering the Chapter Book; To the Original Wizard of Oz, Happy Birthday!; Texting and Literacy; Choosing Books for Preschoolers; and Journal Writing with Young Children. Each blog entry allows readers to post comments and share via email or various social media sites.
Booking Through Thursday
Readers and teachers of reading will love this clever Wordpress blog in which the author posts a new question each Thursday inviting visitors to respond in the comments section. This blog has been consistently maintained since 2005; there are literally hundreds of reading, literacy and literature-related ideas to explore. Some of the more intriguing weekly questions are:
- Character or plot?
- Series or stand-alone books?
- Do you cheat and peek at the ends of books?
- Have you ever felt pressured to read something because “everyone else” was reading it?