Jason Reynolds’s Long Way Down is the first book I started and finished in 2023!

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Jason Reynolds’s Long Way Down is the first book I started and finished in 2023!
April is here and my Reading Challenge / Goal for 2023 is solidified. In January, I had high hopes for reading in 2023. I had determined how many books of different genres I needed to read per week and month. I set the lofty goal of reading 100 books in 2023. I made very little…
It’s the first full day of summer break for me! One of the goals of my Summer Blogging Project is to share more this summer, especially the books I’m reading. Throughout the school year, I have students read a ton of different texts. In order to for them to read, comprehend, and analyze all of…
One month of 2019 has elapsed and it’s time for me to check in on my progress with the Unread Shelf Project and my reading goals for 2019. As I said my post announcing my participation in the Unread Shelf Project for 2019, blogging about my progress allows me to check in and hold myself…
With another semester of graduate school completed, I felt that it was time to refocus on the first “available” weekend. That weekend just so happened to also be a #25inFive Readathon weekend. The last #25inFive Readathon that I participated in was back in August. This month’s Readathon goal was to beat August’s total. Did I…
During the month of July, I attempted to follow my own advice and read for a suggested twenty minutes a day. I encourage my students to read for that amount of time each day to make consistent progress on their Independent Reading unit – Reading Bingo. This graphic finds itself in every one of my…