Reading
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There are many fights to be fought, but we can’t fight them all—even those we’re passionate about. As Bilbo Baggins said, it would make us “feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” With rising mental health issues and the limited impact of spreading ourselves too thin, we must choose our
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We live in a culture that believes if you struggle with reading then you’re somehow an idiot. And yet, we also live in a culture that doesn’t truly support readers, especially struggling ones. There seems to be this belief among many, even experienced educators, that reading develops naturally over time. It doesn’t. Currently, I am
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Nothing is more nerve-wracking than having other people read your writing, but alas, this is what we are working for as writers. While getting my novel ready for publication, I have read it to my husband (out loud, you know, because it wasn’t stress-inducing enough already) and sent it off to the most reliable of
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As a one-on-one teacher, the best part of my job is getting to curate a list of book recommendations for my students based on their interests, reading levels, and books they’ve liked or disliked in the past. While my students will typically only read two or three of these books (the most a student has
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I have been struggling the past month or so with working through writer’s block. When I was younger, I thought writer’s block was just an excuse people gave themselves for being lazy, but over the past few years, I have had several instances of writer’s block that have taken months and months of productive writing
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