You never know what you’re going to get on a Wacky Wednesday here at Read These Books and Use Them. Today, I need your help! I love the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (love her Gregor series, too). I even had it marked on my calendar when Mockingjay was coming out, but then. . [...]

In September, I’ll be teaching a course through WOW! Women On Writing about writing children’s short stories, articles, and fillers. I am re-posting an interview below with Angela, WOW!’s executive editor, that appeared on their blog, The Muffin, at the beginning of this year. I hope that it helps any of you who have thought [...]

I teach a class through WOW! Women On Writing about social networking for writers–but it could actually be for any small business owner or blogger. As I said last Wednesday, I know many of you, who read my blog to get ideas for the classroom, library, and home school, are also writers and bloggers. Here’s [...]

photo by RBerteig www.flickr.com I’m currently teaching an online class for WOW! Women On Writing, “Blogging 101 and More,” and one of the things we just got finished talking about was a regular blogging schedule. (BTW, if you are interested in learning more about blogging or getting your blog up to speed, I am offering [...]

photo by aka Kath www.flickr.com Before I get to the topic of today’s post, “Being a Safety Nut,” I wanted to announce the winner of Gogo’s Dream: Swaziland Discovered. And the winner is. . .LuAnn Morgan. Congratulations to LuAnn. Thank you to everyone who left a comment. You can still go to Monday’s or yesterday’s [...]

photo by nDevilTV www.flickr.com The Wacky Wednesday post is back this week, and I’m excited about this topic! Being a full-time freelancer, step-mom, dog-mom to two dogs, wife, and pregnant with one on the way, this topic is near and dear to my heart. Even when I read, I’m usually reading for my blog or [...]

So, how many times have we heard kids say this, “Do I have to?” I think it’s funny that the author, Nancy Loewen, titled her book about responsibility with this question. Responsibility is such a broad topic–from doing chores to turning in homework, from doing the “right thing” to recycling–this big character education word can [...]

photo by kissyface www.flickr.com I once wrote an entire article on sportsmanship and how to fit it into daily lessons for Teachers of Vision magazine. We already have so much curriculum to cover in a year and state testing to prepare for–how can you add one more thing? But I think character education is as [...]

photo by D’Arcy Norman www.flickr.com Today is one of those days when I can’t get caught up. That’s the reason why I am writing this blog post after dinner instead of this morning, and why it is going to be short. But I do have an idea that I want to share with parents, teachers, [...]

This week, I got a super-cool e-mail from the JuiceBox Jungle network (see their banner ad to the right–you can vote on some really fun issues.), informing me about the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE),which I had never heard of before. But now, I am so glad I have. The NFTE is an organization that [...]