It’s Monday-What Are You Reading? 4-14-14

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

This is what has occupied my reading time for the last month or so:

The Left Behind series. This is the 1st one in the series. I’m on Book 5 now.

If you are looking for a wonderfully written book like what Jodi Picoult can do with words- this is not it.

If you are looking for a book that will lead you closer to Jesus- this is it. 🙂

What have you been reading lately???

 

It’s Monday- What Are You Reading? 1-20-14

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

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I had a slow reading week because of school and running and a COLD!!! I’m finally feeling better! 🙂

It’s Monday- What Are You Reading 1/6/13

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

 

First of all, it’s been a looooong time since I’ve written one of these posts. September-WOW! How can I make sure that I do this each week?

Well, maybe I need to go ahead and set the outline post up in advance as a draft. That way I can just plug in the recent reads. Hmmm….I believe I might do that!

And how about these screenshots? Is this cheating? Because this was EASY PEASY!

None of these books below got less than 4 out of 5 stars from me. And have I told you lately that I adore YA?

And I love, love, love to read. So whenever I retire from teaching-THAT will be what I look into doing-something with wonderfully wondrous books.

 

What have you read lately? Any books that you just couldn’t (or didn’t want to) put down??

It’s Monday-What Are You Reading? 9/23/13

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

Here we go again. Last IMWAYR post was 9/2/13. Why in the world can I not do this on a weekly basis?????????? And I’m too tired tonight to go back and pull in ALL the books I’ve read since that post. 🙂

So here’s a link to my “read” page on goodreads. You know-if you have NOTHING else to do and are COMPLETELY bored out of your mind! 🙂

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4822574?shelf=read

Middle Grade Reads

Kid Books

Adult Books

Liked ALL of these books this week. And let me tell you, I did not want to put down Cemetery Girl at all!! It was so nice to read an adult book again. I’m trying to keep up with my 6th graders and their reading this year. Actually, I’m trying to beat them-especially one of them who is neck and neck with me right now. I’ve given them a challenge to read at least 40 books this year. Then I went a little further and challenged them to “beat the teacher” and read more books than me. Oh my word! Garrett is keeping me on my toes! 🙂

What have you read lately that you didn’t want to put down?

It’s Monday-What Are You Reading? 9/2/13

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

I feel like I’m always saying this, but my last IMWAYR post was on 7/29/13!!! I’ve got to get better about this!

And with school starting on August 12 (teachers) I’ve just been so busy that I haven’t gotten in a lot of reading. Until last week. And then BAM! I’m back in the swing of things. Partially because I’m now trying to keep up with my 6th graders and what they are reading. 🙂

Middle Grade

Hard to pick a favorite from the middle grade books: LOVED Humphrey(the class pet who keeps a notebook and pencil in his cage so he can take the tests like the students!!)-Heartland had me CRYING!- Can’t wait to read the sequel to Shiloh.-The Landry News put a different spin on the elementary classroom setting that’s found in many books-The House on the Gulf was good but maybe not as good as I expected. 🙂

Young Adult

LOVED both young adult books!!!!!!!

Professional

And of course-I loved my PD books. Always do. Always will.

What have you read lately that you think I might like???

It’s Monday-What Are You Reading 7/29/13

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

 

I haven’t participated in this since 7/15/13 so these books are for the last 2 weeks!

Professional Books:

Picture Books:

Upper grade books:

Young adult books:

Elementary books:

Talk about some EXCELLENT and AWESOME books!

Yes, I was at the beach for 4 days so I was able to get lots of reading in there. 🙂

My reviews for all of these books are on my goodreads page which you can go to HERE.

I am CURRENTLY reading R5 in the Classroom and about to start Book Love.

Trying to get in all the PD books I can before school starts because then I’ll be like a crazy lady! 🙂

It’s Monday-What Are You Reading? 7/15/13

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

 

Professional Books:

Middle Grade/YA Books:

Adult Fiction:

These books are what I’ve read since June 18th-my last IMWAYR post. I haven’t even made a dent in my PD pile of books I want to read this summer! But I’m going to the beach in a week so hopefully I can knock out some more then. As much as I LOVE to read PD books and WANT to read PD books, my brain is feeling the need for a vacay FROM PD books. 🙂

What I’m Currently Reading:

THIS book is absolutely fantastically fabulous! When Kids Can’t Ready by the famous Kylene Beers. How did I ever miss this one?

It’s written as a narrative with student transcripts provided so you can actually “hear” and “see” how kids think!

She also begins and ends EVERY chapter to a former student that she feels like she failed. I just cried while reading one of those letters.

I.LOVE.THIS.BOOK.

LOTS of practical ideas/strategies that I can’t wait to try with my 6th graders! 🙂

5 of 5 stars to this one even thought I’m not even finished!

What are you reading?

 

It’s Monday-What Are You Reading 6/17/13

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

Professional Books:

Middle Grade:

Young Adult:

These were some great books I read this past week. Even though it’s summer, and I should have read A LOT more than this I’m feeling good because the National Writing Project has been CONSUMING ME. 🙂

Next up is: I Don’t Know

That’s not really the name of a book, well, it might be, but I mean I don’t know what I’m going to read next. 🙂 Lots of PD books I can tell you that!!!!!

It’s Monday-What Are You Reading? 6/10/13

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

 

Professional

Upper Elementary

Adult

I will be reading (and hopefully reviewing) LOTS of PD books this summer as part of the National Writing Project AND just because I want to. 🙂 These were 2 gems that I read this past week as part of my professional reading withthe  NWP. We have to read and complete 8 annotated bibliographies in 4 weeks, and if my math is right I am right on target!

Gossamer by Lois Lowry was DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE. I ended up really liking it even though I wasn’t sure about it since this is not my usual genre that I would choose to read. It’s fantasy. Here’s a review from goodreads (Maria):

I absolutely loved this book. The idea of “bestowing memories” from possessions was intriguing to me. Made me think about what possessions I have and what memories could be bestowed from them. I highly recommend this book!

Are you intrigued? 🙂

And finally. Finally, I listened to my 2nd audio book in my entire life and LOVED THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so easy to listen to and very entertaining since Ellen herself was the narrator. VERY ENTERTAINING! 🙂 Like snicker out loud entertaining.

I have now started Hold Fast by Blue Bailliett, a middle grade novel. Liking it but mad at the dad right now. Hope there’s a good explanation……….

What are your reading? Anything I would like?

 

It’s Monday- What Are You Reading? 6/3/13

Here we are with another chance to share wonderful books with each other thanks to Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts and Sheila over at Book Journey who both sponsor this great meme each week for young adult/children and adult respectively!

This is what I read for the  past 2 weeks since I didn’t join in last Monday:

Adult

Upper Grades

Younger Grades

Picture Books

And I read a Harcourt leveled reader book about ecosystems.

And I finished Notice and Note- Close Reading by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst. Another teacher and I are hosting a twitter book chat about this book on June 6, 13, 20 at 8pm CST. Hashtag is #NNNchat. Join us beginning this Thursday!! You can read a tiny description of the book here at Goodreads. We will be discussing Part 1 this Thursday:

Role of fiction,rigor, intellectual communities, close reading, text dependent questions, text complexity, creating lifelong learners

Kylene Beers has even said she will try to join us for the chat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can follow me on twitter at @shannonclark7.

We have also created a facebook group to be able to continue the conversation as long as we need to. Find our group HERE.

Are you participating in any book studies or book chats this summer?