Susan Kennedy

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currently-reading‎ (1)
read‎ (1951)
did-not-finish‎ (2)
picture-books‎ (396)
read-aloud‎ (363)
intermediate-readers‎ (205)
narrative‎ (199)
adult-fiction‎ (178)
primary‎ (161)
writing‎ (145)
reflective‎ (140)

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made-me-think‎ (122)
social-situations‎ (111)
2022-23‎ (106)
cultural-diversity‎ (103)
craft-moves‎ (97)
2020-21‎ (92)
illustrations‎ (92)
2019-20‎ (90)
2018-19‎ (89)
social-emotional‎ (89)
informational‎ (88)

mindset‎ (86)
empathy-kindness‎ (83)
character-study‎ (77)
2016-17‎ (70)
beginning-of-the-year‎ (70)
summer-reading-2022‎ (70)
professional-books‎ (63)
2017-18‎ (62)
summer-reading-2012‎ (62)
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2014-15‎ (59)
easy-chapters‎ (59)

social-issues‎ (56)
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summer-reading-2019‎ (53)
anchor-books‎ (52)
2013-14‎ (49)
2015-16‎ (48)
biography‎ (47)
reading-instruction‎ (43)
coaching‎ (42)
folktale‎ (42)
summer-reading-2013‎ (42)
cuuriculum-connection‎ (40)

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Susan’s Quotes

“Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.”
― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

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“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.”
― Ralph Fletcher, What a Writer Needs

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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

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