Comments on: Promote a Passion for Reading http://www.middleweb.com/5639/promote-a-passion-for-reading/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=promote-a-passion-for-reading All About the Middle Grades Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:19:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kay McGriff (@kaymcgriff) http://www.middleweb.com/5639/promote-a-passion-for-reading/#comment-980 Kay McGriff (@kaymcgriff) Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:34:52 +0000 http://www.middleweb.com/?p=5639#comment-980 I read & loved Book Love over Christmas vacation. I also just finished Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald. These two books go together so well, present opposite sides of the same coin. Charlie Joe, like many of my students, has learned to play the game of not reading. Like Penny, I keep working to entice them to join the literacy club and see the power of books and reading to transform my students every day.

]]> By: Penny Kittle http://www.middleweb.com/5639/promote-a-passion-for-reading/#comment-976 Penny Kittle Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:54:20 +0000 http://www.middleweb.com/?p=5639#comment-976 Thanks for this review, Kevin. My only correction is I am still a classroom teacher. I have two high school classes this year and spend the rest of my full-time teaching job as a literacy coach K-12.

I only note this because staying in teaching is important to me. I own the literacy development of students every year–it’s all on me. I know the daily challenges of engaging adolescent readers–this week.

Looking forward to meeting you some time.
:) Penny

]]> By: MiddleWeb Review: Loving “Book Love” http://www.middleweb.com/5639/promote-a-passion-for-reading/#comment-975 MiddleWeb Review: Loving “Book Love” Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:42:33 +0000 http://www.middleweb.com/?p=5639#comment-975 [...] My review of Penny Kittle’s Book Love is up at MiddleWeb. I found a lot to like and a lot to learn from Kittle’s book when it comes to thinking about how to instill a love of novels in our students, particularly those reluctant ones or those who have lost the love of reading, for whatever reason. Read my review of Book Love at MiddleWeb. [...]

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