Welcome to the WDYRLN Blog
Do you love reading? Cullman City Schools is using our WDYRLN reading program to build a true joy of reading in our students through art, music, discussion, and reading, reading, reading!
We have just ended our first year of this program and can't wait to see what the new year holds. Schools too often focus on teaching reading but lose sight of the need to create lifelong readers who read because they love it. This program wants to give them opportunities to not just learn to read but also to share the things they read that they love. Join us in our quest for happy, excited readers and share your ideas with us.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Kudzu Meeting
Well, the Dynamic Kudzu Committee met yesterday to plan for this school year. I think everyone agrees that the WDYRLN reading program is well worth the effort and should be continued. Members shared lots of wonderful, compelling memories from the past year. News of WDYRLN is being spread. While on vacation in Hawaii, one member's husband got an author to autograph a book and also told to author about our reading program. How cool is that.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Planning meeting
Time to stir up the brain cells. The Dynamic Kudzu Reading Committee will be meeting in a couple of weeks to brainstorm ideas for this school year. I can't wait to hear what the other members want to do this year. Everything I see and hear leads me to believe this is the right direction for us to go. We MUST share our love of reading with our students. Their lives will be richer for it.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Workshop
Well, yesterday Cindy and I presented our workshop on WDYRLN. I thought it went well and really got a kick out of sharing what we have done this year and how it went. As usual, the highlight for me was when Cindy sang the song she wrote for the program. It never fails to touch and delight me. Maybe one day we'll be hearing it on a program for children. It is really special and if the right person with the right connections hears it, I'm sure it would really take off.
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