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	<title>Best Book I Have Not Read</title>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title>
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So much to be thankful for&#8230;.
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		<title>Quick jottings of ALAN 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazing Authors I Couldn’t Believe I Got to Hear:
Gregory Maguire
Jeanette Walls
Authors I already loved:
Maggie Stiefvater
Laurence Yep
Mary Pearson
Rebecca Stead
Jacqueline Woodson
Todd Strasser
Authors whose books I had heard great things about, 
but hadn’t had a chance to read:
Chris Crutcher
Patricia McCormck
Stephen Chbosky
Lauren Myracle
Adrian Fogelin
Sarah Dessen
Sara Zarr
Authors I just learned about and can hardly wait to read:
Matt de la Peña
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		<title>Amelia Earhart Walden 2009 award finalisrs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson, Graceling by Kristin Cashore, The graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Me, The Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine, My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love , Mary Poppins &#38; Fenway Park by Steve Klugler are the finalists of this new $5000 award for the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com&blog=4456306&post=2987&subd=bestbookihavenotread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/amelia-earhart-walden-2009-award-finalisrs/</link>
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		<title>NCTE 2009 Philly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Franki over at A Year of Reading is so right about ncte being such an amazing professional development experience. I just heard her partner-in-crime Mary lee, Karen from literate lives, and Katie from Creative Literacy talk about how they&#8217;ve grown professionally by &#8220;going public&#8221; with their blogs, videos , and book (not all one venture). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com&blog=4456306&post=2986&subd=bestbookihavenotread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knufflebunny the Musical and Knufflebunny 3</title>
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SLJ had an interview with author/illustrator Mo Willems. In the works is Knufflebunny 3 and a Knufflebunny: A Cautionary Musical. I think that could be very fun to see with the kids. Read SLJ for the whole story. 
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		<title>NCTE 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah&#8230;flight delays. Who would have thought in a month that has been so beautiful in the midwest that there would be flight problems. I just got the call that my flight was delayed 152 minutes. Well, at least they called! I might be tired, but at least I&#8217;m going to get there. I just home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com&blog=4456306&post=2982&subd=bestbookihavenotread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/ncte-2009/</link>
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		<title>Setting Up a Reading Workshop: More from Units of Study Across the Year in Upper Grade Reading, Grades 3-5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Provisioning a Reading Workshop: Overview, Classroom Environment, and Tools 
 
A transcript of remarks by Kathleen Tolan 
Deputy Director of Reading, Teachers College Reading &#38; Writing Project 
 
The workshop model is a model in which all children are involved and engaged. In the case of the
reading workshop, students are engaged with reading books they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com&blog=4456306&post=2975&subd=bestbookihavenotread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Units of Study Across the Year in Upper Grade Reading, Grades 3-5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Years from today, if you were to gather close around you the children you teach now and ask them about their reading lives, would they name your teaching of reading as a turning point? Would you like it to be? Does your teaching of reading have the potential to change not only your students’ lives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com&blog=4456306&post=2971&subd=bestbookihavenotread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/units-of-study-across-the-year-in-upper-grade-reading-grades-3-5/</link>
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		<title>Annie Glover is NOT a Tree Lover by Darleen Beard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been on a hunt this fall for books that fill that niche for the transitional reader. Ones that aren&#8217;t too hard or too babyish. I thought I had found a new winner in Annie Glover is Not a Tree Lover by Darleen Bailey Beard, but unfortunately, I am not a Annie Glover Lover.
Here&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com&blog=4456306&post=2966&subd=bestbookihavenotread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/annie-glover-is-not-a-tree-lover-by-darleen-beard/</link>
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		<title>NCTE 2009: What I&#8217;m looking forward to attending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Decisions, Decisons! What a happy dilemma!
Franki over at A Year of Reading had a great suggestion of sharing what you are looking forward to attending at the upcoming NCTE. I do pay the extra $20 to get my program book ahead of time (and I do mean book! It&#8217;s over 380 pages) to pour over. It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com&blog=4456306&post=2960&subd=bestbookihavenotread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/ncte-2009-what-im-looking-forward-to-attending/</link>
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