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Welcome to the //Growing Readers// online book study. There is no better way to express the purpose of this book than how Lucy Calkins expressed in the forward so poignantly:

"//Growing Readers can become the seed to wrap your teaching around, nurturing your own// //experiences in the light of an author whose fresh original teaching reflects her deep, deep// //understanding of young children and reading."//

Hopefully the questions for each chapter will help to guide your thinking and be useful as tools while you reflect on your own practices. Sharing your thinking and questions with each other will build our community as we guide each other on this journey to creating literate classrooms where all children share the love of reading. Please feel free to respond to each others' comments and responses. Our goal is to have a "conversation" around this book. As you respond, please remember to always display the professional courtesy that we each deserve. Not all of our thinking is alike which is the beauty of growing also as educators. We learn and grow together!

If you are taking this book study for credit, please read carefully the requirements for SB-CEU's and GVSU Credit.

So let's begin our journey!

*** You may begin to log your Online time on July 1st.** * ﻿Don't forget to sign your name after your comment!