The PERFECT 2nd grade read-aloud chapter books for your classroom Looking for the BEST 2nd grade read-aloud chapter books? Are you in search of the best 2nd-grade read-aloud chapter books to use with your class? I compiled a list of my FAVORITE read-alouds that work great for this grade level. The list of 2nd grade read-aloud chapter books All the following links are Amazon Affiliate links, but you can get these books at your library or at Barnes & Noble/Target/Walmart/etc.! Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White “If I can fool a bug… I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.” I’m sure that everyone is familiar with Charlotte’s Web! As you may remember, clever Charlotte the...
The time has come to cut the crap and get your head right about Combat Rock. Why this album — the amalgamation of pretty much everything that made The Clash cool — does not get its proper due in the same way the first album and London Calling do is beyond comprehension. Originally mapped out as a double LP called Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg, the band’s label brought in producer Glyn Johns to whittle it down to a tight, taut 45-minute record that set the scene for their greatest commercial success. Combat was the biggest hit of their run, powered by two all-timers in “Rock The Casbah” and “Should I Stay Or Should I Go.” The 40th anniversary expanded...
We all know the current state of online dating is a hellscape. But no matter how bad it gets, it's likely that you're still going to fill out your silly little profile and swipe on your silly little apps and go out on your silly little dates. Let's at least try to save you some time.For the past seven-ish years, I've relied on a single question to weed out weirdos and cut through dizzying levels of pretense while dating online. It nearly always works, either to start a substantial conversation or make it clear you'd rather end things ASAP. I hit on it by accident, using it as filler for my wan Tinder bio just after college. My rationale went...
Nyamata Memorial Site, Rwanda. Wikimedia commonsOn January 10 2022, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus from the school’s curriculum, and ban it. The board cited concerns about nudity and profanity, implicitly raising broader questions about the book’s depiction of violence. The content of Maus is inherently violent: its subject is the Holocaust. Spiegelman based his graphic novel, which depicts Nazis as cats and Polish Jews as mice, on the experiences of his parents. Built around a father-son dialogue, Maus not only depicts the horrors they and countless others endured under Nazism, it examines how the children of survivors struggle in the wake of their parents’ unimaginable suffering. Book boycotts and...
Looking for hyperlexia related language development books? Here's a list of books about supporting and developing language skills in hyperlexic learners.Communication. Spontaneous speech. Echolalia. Conversations. Comprehension. Expressive language. Receptive language. These words come up time and time again whenever someone has questions about language skills in hyperlexia. Questions such as:How
