Keep your students motivated to hit their weekly and monthly reading goals by offering a little motivation or reward. Here are some of our favorite ideas.

Happy Monday everyone! Since it is Monday, I just have to link up again with Tara over in 4th Grade Frolics for another edition of her Made it Monday linky party! Summer is winding down so of course that means that all my craft projects have to get done and quick! A few months ago I found this coffee table on the side of the road. Seriously, someone had put it out with the trash and even though it was raining, I just had to do a u-turn right then and there to check it out. My husband thought…

Reading Buddies can improve reading fluency and decrease stress. Let me share ideas and a free printable with you and get you going with Reading Buddies!

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This end of the year student gift that will keep your students reading throughout the summer. Your students will adopt stuffed reading buddies, sign an adoption certificate and vow to read to their stuffy every day this summer!

Buddy reading : how does it work? Tips and tricks to buddy read with your friends. #buddyreading #buddyread #reading #books

Tweet Thursday, August 11, 6-9pm, Sustainable NYC, 139 Avenue A (btw St. Marks & 9th St), New York, NY 10009 Calling all veggies and friends of animals with dusty, crowded book shelves! Please join us for an evening swap of inspiring vegan cookbooks, theory books, how-to dvds, and all other media related to vegetarianism and animal rights. This event is open to all whether you are a hardcore vegan with a dozen books (and tattoos) or a veg-curious passerby. There will be a raffle in support…