I just posted a long discussion of Debbie Miller’s book, READING WITH MEANING, on my other blog.  Here’s a link to the post if you’d like to read more.  I created this other blog, as I stated before, to kind of develop my thinking as a teacher reading professional books and books related to teaching. So, I thought that would be the best place to post my thinking.

I hope to have more to say about other books I’m reading soon, such as a book about classroom discussion that I started today – Building Literacy through Classroom Discussion by Mary Adler and Eija Rougle.  I was planning to read a book about Socratic circles, but the book I have is rather dry and wordy – this one seems both more readable and more broadly applicable to contexts other than just a single instructional practice (Socratic circles seem like one approach, while this book – about discussion – seems to be about a larger family of approaches built around discussion.  Much more useful.)