A Day in the Life

"Mrs. Eck, do you have a favorite book?" I have been asked this question so many times during my teaching career, and I usually an...

 Dear Students, I walked down the hall today and saw this sign on our Student of the Week board. It made me sad because it is not the first ...

"Oh, Mrs. Eck! You have to keep going!" These words are music to a reading teacher's ears. We have been reading whole class no...

A few years ago, I participated in a #MustRead book challenge. We created a list of books that we missed reading the previous year and wante...

  Thank you to  Unleashing Readers  for continuing to promote reading and great book titles and especially for letting us wayward readers fi...

  Thank you to  Unleashing Readers  for continuing to promote reading and great book titles and especially for letting us wayward readers fi...

Sometimes I hear about decisions in different school systems that are made that leave me scratching my head. I know that teachers don't ...

I have been thinking about read-aloud lately.  Maybe it's because on Wednesday, I read the last chapter in our class novel, and every st...

Imagine... political division in the United States our country at war disputes over illegal immigrants and border control protests tyranny a...

Several years ago, I started doing an activity the two days before Thanksgiving break. We are usually finishing up a writing assignment and ...

  Join  Two Writing Teachers  and other teacher-writers as we share a slice of life every single day in the month of March.   Sometimes when...

In 2021 I'm trying to return to communities that support me as a reader, a writer, and a teacher. Not sure how regular I will be, but I ...

I received an email Sunday with the subject: "I need a good book." Hmmm...this should be interesting as we are not in sch...

I am joining folks at  MG Book Village  on Twitter to share some middle-grade book love this month. Each day has a different prompt, and ...