The Red Reading Chair : Another Blog

Friday, March 7, 2014

Another Blog

Just because I have not been posting my lessons on this blog does not mean that I have not been teaching. I've got another blog brewing with Marnie Cushing, the librarian at Poteet High School and former English teacher and elementary librarian. We started LOL: Librarian on Loan at the beginning of the school year to document the picture book lessons that we do with high school students on our campuses. If you are an elementary librarian/teacher who still follows Red Reading Chair, thank you for the support, and I want to make sure that you know about LOL because I think you can take our ideas and adapt them to your classroom at whatever grade level you teach.

We have been blogging up a storm on LOL (Really, Marnie has. I'm trying to catch up.); please take a gander. If you are at the TLA Conference in San Antonio, we will be presenting our picture book ideas on Wednesday afternoon, April 9th. We would love to see you there!

Here's the link to LOL: http://hspicturebooks.blogspot.com/. Let us know what you think!

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Where's the Red Chair now?

As the librarian at Shaw Elementary for four years, I joyously read books to kids while perched in my red chair, a family heirloom built by my grandfather. I started this blog as a way to share lessons and read-alouds and document a "year in the life" of a busy elementary librarian. Now that I've moved on to high school, the red chair resides in my home, but it's still the place that I perch to read, write, and contemplate the world around me.

As a librarian at Mesquite High School, my mission is to turn teens into life-long readers--to ignite that spark for literacy that will propel them into their adult lives. Even though the red chair no longer has a physical presence in my library, it serves as a symbol of my mission--that reading will become so important to these teens that they will seek out a physical space for it--that they might have their own "red reading chair" one day.

A librarian can dream... right?