Welcome to My Reading List

Clint and I now have library cards from The Mid-Continent Public Library. Since I work in Jackson county, we are allowed to use their library. Clint is taking advantage of their graphic novel selection, while I take advantage of their professional books for teachers selection.

Welcome to My Current Reading/Skimming List:

1. The Power of Positive Teaching: 35 Successful Strategies for Active and Enthusiastic Classroom Participation

2. 1-2-3 Magic for Teachers: Effective Classroom Discipline Pre-k through 8

3. Booktalks, Bookwalks, and Read-Alouds

4. Educating Oppoitional and Defiant Children

5. Character Education: A Book Guide for Teachers, Librarians, and Parents

6. 180 Creative Ideas for Getting Students Involved, Engaged, and Excited

7. Helping Children with Reading and Spelling: A Special Needs Manual

8. Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom

9. Positive Discipline in the Classroom: Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsiblity in your Classroom

10.Laughing Lessons: 149 2/3 ways to Make Teaching and Learning Fun

11. Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools.

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Being poor and not having the money to invest in professional books at the moment, the library is once again my best friend. As well as reading these books, I'm working on my strategy notebook. So far its going well, I worked on it for a little while tonight. As I am reading through these books, ideas I like are getting marked with post-it-notes and being copyied into my idea notebook or strategy file, which ever it fits better.

Although we are broke, there's one book I had Clint order from Hastings, only because I LOVED the entire book, and i don't want to copy the whole thing. That book is #10 on my list, as well as my current favorite out of the group.

I'm reading # 8, because I was asked about it during one of my interviews. When they mention a book I haven't read, I try and get it and read it so if I'm asking again, I'm ready.

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On a side note I took a break half-way through my post to take a walk with my mom. She brought me some milk since we are out, and she was upset about Grandpa. So we took Slinky on a walk around the block. Slinnky met Rambo, another miniuture daschund in the neighborhood. He's only 10 weeks old. Here's the best part of my day. He didn't cry when we was with Rambo. They actually played a bit. It was cute.

I can hear my 5:45 alarm for work already, time to turn in and get some sleep.