Tag: Suzy and Leah

• Book Review: Janie Writes a Play by Heidi E. Y. Stemple and illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight

  For those of you who have been following my book reviews, this will be a bit different for you. Today I read a book to be published on February 11, 2025, a children’s picture book with only 40 pages, short paragraphs on each page, and bright, colorful illustrations on every page. This is a bit…

  michardillo

  September 3, 2024

  books, Essay

  book-review, books, Charlesbridge Publishers, creativity, education, essays, Heidi Stemple, imagination, Jane Yolen, Janie Writes a Play, language arts, library, literature, Madelyn Goodnight, middle school, museum, NetGalley, plays, reading, Suzy and Leah, teaching, theater, theatre, writer, writing

• Shielding our Differences

  The summer before my first year of full-time teaching in middle school literature and English, I looked over the textbooks I would be using. As a second-career teacher with no formal education courses behind me, I had no idea how to plan a unit, but I knew how to read and analyze a piece of…

  michardillo

  June 23, 2020

  Essay

  epistolary novel, Holocaust, Jane Yolen, literature, middle school, New York, Oswego, Prentice Hall Penguin, reading, short story, Suzy and Leah