Love Takes a Hero
I joke with people that I teach for the tater tots and recess. I really teach for tater tots and the opportunity read aloud to a captive audience. There’s nothing like getting kids hooked on a good book. I love it! Near two o’clock the end of day song comes on and my third graders pack up and go to the rug and I read to them. They get lost in the books I read aloud and talk about the characters like college kids do in a good literature class. And I’ll let you in on a little secret, that’s why I do it. I want them exposed to those life changing issues in a positive way and I want them to talk about it. I grabbed Kate DiCamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane as I walked out the library one day. Kate DiCamillo is one of my all time favorite authors. I knew that whatever she wrote would be well written and good for my students to hear. I wasn’t wrong. What I didn’t know was that it would be good for me to hear too. ...