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Good Stories and Hard Truths: Summer Reading

July 20, 2015 Life LeGeros 1 Comment reading, social justice, social reading

As I look at what I am reading and want to read this summer, it’s kind of all over the

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Top Ten Summer Reading Recommendations

July 15, 2015 Scott Thompson 3 Comments reading, social reading

Summer in Vermont brings on a different set of activities, a different pace of life, and an opportunity for renewal

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Pushing my thinking with summer reading

July 11, 2015April 19, 2018 Mark W. Olofson 1 Comment #ScienceSaturdays, reading, Science, social reading

With July comes the “Dog Days” of summer – named due to their association with Sirius, the Dog Star. Sirius

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Using edmodo as an LMS for reading

December 12, 2014August 7, 2019 Hannah Lindsey 6 Comments digital badging, edmodo, learning management systems, LMS, Peoples Academy Middle Level, reading, social reading, Vermont

Students provide evidence of increased engagement with social reading platform (Editor’s Note: we asked 5th grade educator Hannah Lindsey to share

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Differentiated social reading with Subtext

September 17, 2014December 12, 2020 Susan Hennessey 3 Comments differentiated learning, lexile levels, Newsela, reading, social reading, Subtext

Make the most of Subtext’s capacity for differentiated reading A-reading we will go, A-reading we will go, hey ho the dairy-o, a

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