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Absolutely - you were modelling what fluent readers do and your children were absorbing all kinds of tricks and techniques that fluent readers do. Another way to work on reading skills with your kids is to take turns reading portions of a text out loud. Reading to children is soooo important.

these kinds of ‘thinking notes’ are a wonderful way to look at student thinking/reading comprehension/inferential reading skills. You can get a clear idea of the level of comprehension and understanding of form/structure - you just need a rubric to assess it. Wonderful stuff.

For God’s sake, what is wrong with the New York Times! How is this even a story? Headline should read “Botched lip filler gives woman false sense of fulfillment. She plans to sue, which she is sure will make her happy again.”

Every dog in the country should get a biscuit!

Your essay has so clearly articulated what I have felt but couldn’t put together verbally or in writing for myself - the systems have ways of making you doubt what you can see and know is true. Thank you for such a clear view. The task is huge but you’ve made it clear.

Agreed. Books are safe and wonderful ways to introduce kids to uncomfortable and even awful things that are part of our world. Librarians and teachers and parents are there to help guide kids through their reactions to works of fiction and negotiate the emotions that can come up.

Good luck

Don’t forget the Guardian: “Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest”

Switching the lever in the VW beetle over to the reserve gas tank because there was no gas gauge. Same car had virtually no heat in it.

Answer: no.

Apparently it was the show This Hour has 22 Minutes that filmed a segment at the Halifax Pier as the cruise passengers got off with this guy greeting them. Hilarious and a nice poke at you know who.

Oh man - so sad - how the hell do you check on their emerging literacy skills if you don’t read together - helping them with the decoding, checking for comprehension, sharing emotional responses to what is going on in the story - crucial for parents to model what fluent readers do. With voices!

Shared.

Passive voice - refuge for the mealy mouthed and those who look to shift responsibility from themselves.

I’m sorry but I don’t remember. Now that you mention it, I just screen grabbed it and gave no attribution - probably not a cool thing to do.

Rick Steves travel shows on PBS.

The face of evil right out in the open. Human trafficking like delivering “stuff”. Human beings reduced to … I have no words. This is monumentally terrifying.

Where do I get my copy?