I'm joining the community of #cyberPD, and hope to see some of you there, too! This summer's book is Digital Reading: What's Essential in Grades 3-8. You can purchase from NCTE, or from Amazon, and download it as an e-book. Click here to read more about #cyberPD or click here to join the Google+ discussion group! It's a pleasure every summer to participate in this knowledgeable group. I know I've retired, but still am so interested in what everyone might share about how they are doing with integrating digital reading in their classrooms.
Clearly a large, important slice of my life is reading. I love to read, and am wondering today and this evening if you have some kind of ritual, "thing" that you do when you are about to finish a book? When I woke up this morning, I knew what was ahead: more book cleaning out, a little dusting, reading blog posts and finishing Maggie Stiefvater's Blue Lily, Lily Blue. I've had this book since it came out, but just hadn't read it yet. Now I have. But it took me all day to read about 40 pages! I messed around with my book cleaning. Then I read a chapter. I took a walk, read another chapter. I vacuumed the whole house (which I wasn't planning to do), then read another chapter. I even re-read a chapter.