by Ethel Lee-Miller | May 27, 2020 | Writing
Encouraging Reading in Elementary Grades Many years ago in the 1980s and ‘90s, my teaching colleagues and I at Washington School in West Caldwell, New Jersey were constantly finding ways to encourage the habit and love of reading. We had D.E.A.R. time, Big Books;...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | Apr 3, 2017 | Writing
Whether you’re 5, 15, 35, 55 or beyond, D.E.A.R. Drop Everything and Read. (Yes, another acronym – the key to salvaging my memory) I love to read, yet find other ‘things’ get in the way of my personal reading. April is D.E.A.R. month. I did it...