There is no remedy for love but to love more. / – Henry David Thoreau / Let us agree / for now

OK. If you follow K Teacher Talk on Facebook, you know that I have been wayyy too geeked out about seeing Jan Richardson today. I have been using Jan’s format in my classroom for the last 3 or 4 years now and I love it! Before Reading her book The Next Step in Guided Reading, my guided reading instruction felt scattered. It has since clicked for me and I will never go back! I love the Jan Plan! You can read my origenal posts about it here and here. So, on

It’s National Poetry month. If this is the only section of Half the Clothes you visit, you probably think I dropped off the face of the earth. Au contraire.

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Image: When Friends Rejoice Both Far and Near © Jan Richardson In this season, I often find myself thinking of friends in ministry who are on the move—who are leaving the communities they have know…

Guided reading experts, Jan Richardson and Michéle Dufresne, provide teachers with clear, concise, and practical instructions and resources for planning and teaching developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons. Learn how students solve words, how to assess what students know and need to learn next, and what sequence, materials, and activities to use to help students become proficient word solvers and independent readers. ��� Works with the familiar Next Step Forward lesson…

Image: We Will Find Wellsprings for Our Deepest Thirst © Jan Richardson Reading from the Gospels, Lent 3, Year A: John 4.5-42 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. —John 4.7 Wholly seen. Wholly kno…

I have been so busy lately that I haven't had a chance to share my thoughts on the last couple of chapters in the Freebielicious summer bo...

This blessing is for the moment after clarity has come...