This afternoon as I waited in the carpool line to pick up my sons, I scrolled through my Facebook feed and noticed an NPR post titled, “Raising Kids Who Want to Read.” Given my recent struggles to get my 9-year-old to read, I clicked. I went… Read More
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Slice of Life 15: Fifteen Books for the Ides of March
The Ides of March may be a day that lives in infamy, but I thought I’d use March 15 to list 15 books that I’ve read recently that made me think, feel, wonder, question, and reflect. (Side note: As I started to brainstorm book titles… Read More
Slice of Life 13: English Teacher on a Friday Night
It’s Friday night, and with the weekend here and without a firm bedtime, the boys are still up as I write this (about 9:30 p.m.). Despite his protests, I think my seven-year-old’s on the losing side of his battle with fatigue. I can always tell when… Read More
Slice of Life 12: Another day, another book
We just finished our second full day of our Read-a-Thon, and so far, my combined four classes of 78 students have finished reading 29 books. Not bad at all, especially with five more days to go. Most students have set a goal of finishing at… Read More
Slice of Life 10: Making Time for Reading
Today was the kick-off day for our inaugural Read-A-Thon in my ninth grade classes. I have been struggling with how to find more time for independent reading, especially after I read Readicide a few years ago. This passage, in particular, continues to haunt me: Shouldn’t schools be the… Read More
Slice of Life 1: Stranger Reading
This year, I rededicated myself to helping students find their “readerly lives.” I actually started to do more independent reading with my students three years ago after I read Readicide, but it wasn’t until this year that I felt like I understood what it really meant to… Read More
From the Classroom: Gatsby, Hawthorne, and Being Sixteen
One of the last books I read in 2014 was Gabrielle Levin’s delightful novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. At one point, the main character—a somewhat odd and sometimes churlish bookseller named A.J. Fikry—tells his daughter to remember that “the things we respond to… Read More
My GoodReads: Fall 2014
Now that the first marking period is officially behind us, my ninth graders and I are now fully immersed in our independent reading endeavors. As of the first week of November, my 80+ freshman have read more than 225 books, with titles ranging from the hot Maze… Read More
There’s a movie? Let me read that book.
Gayle Forman’s YA novel If I Stay has been sitting on my bookshelf for months, maybe even a year (it’s part of a continuously growing stack of books on my “to read” shelf; I admit, I have a sickness). The book reviews were generally good, and it… Read More
Tricia Ebarvia 
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