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Friday, June 17, 2011

Literacy Conference - Day Three Exit Activity

Explain ways in which you will be able to incorporate more writing in your content.

How will the ideas and strategies shared during this conference change your instructional practice?

A House of Readers

By Jim Wayne Miller

At 9:42 on this May morning
the children's rooms are concentrating too.
Like a tendril growing toward the sun, Ruth
moves her book into a wedge of light
that settles on the floor like a butterfly.
She turns a page.
Fred is immersed in magic, cool
as a Black Angus belly-deep in a farm pond.

The only sounds: pages turning softly.
This is the quietness
of bottomland where you can hear only the young corn growing, where a little breeze stirs the blades
and then breathes in again.

I mark my place. I listen like a farmer in the rows.

from The Mountains Have Come Closer, 1980 ©

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