Thinking of Teaching: Professional Reading (Summer Book Studies)

How do I participate in an online book study?

I've been getting some great emails from my followers asking this very question and I think it's an important question to answer. There are a lot of book studies that are going on out here in teacher-blogger land and I want everyone to be able to make the most of these great learning and collaborating opportunities.

Now each book study will have it's own set of guidelines but generally there are two ways that you can participate in an online, blogger book study:

1. Read the book, follow along with the blog posts by the various teacher-blogger hosts and enjoy reading the ideas of others.

2. Same as above, but if you have a blog you can also post about the book and link up with your thoughts for each chapter if there is a linky party/code provided.

In my experience the overall idea of the book study is a lot more like an online book club...

Let's read a book together and enjoy it!!

100 Minutes:
Making Every Minute Count in the Literacy Block
(Summer 2014)

As we work through the chapters of 100 Minutes I will be posting a link to each co-host's blog, as well as the inlinkz widget so people will have ongoing access to all the participant's blog posts.

- this is an ongoing book study and will be updated over time

Chapter 1

Co-host: Thinking of Teaching

Chapter 2
Co-host: Appleslices
Chapter 3
Co-host: An Apple for the Teacher
Chapter 4
Co-host: Teaching, Life and Everything In Between
Chapter 5
Co-host: Dilly Dabbles
Chapter 6
Co-host: A Piece of the Apple

Chapter 7

Co-host: Primary Inspired
Chapter 8
Co-host: Emmy Mac's Class
Chapter 9 and Conclusion
Co-host: Croft's Classroom
Other Information

If you are interested in creating any products/freebies based on 100 Minutes these are the guidelines that have been provided by Lisa Donohue and the publishers.
- Anything created for 100 MINUTES should be shared for free. - Anything created and shared based on 100 MINUTES should include a disclosure statement - Adapted from 100 MINUTES and not endorsed by Lisa Donohue.

- Cite the complete publication information: "100 MINUTES, (2012), Donohue Lisa, Pembroke Publishers" in order to make it easier for others to find the book.

Lisa Donohue- Blog
Pembroke Publishers Pinterest Page

The Primary Gal's Guided Math Book Study (Summer 2014)
I am also helping to host the book study on Guided Math by Laney Sammons this summer. I first participated in a book study for this book in 2012 with Brenda from Primary Inspired and loved it.
I thought that after 2 years and a mat leave it would be a good idea to re-visit my thoughts and the book.

- this is an ongoing book study and will be updated over time

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Building Mathematical Comprehension (Summer 2013)

Here's a link to this year's line up of fabulous blogger hosts!

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Guiding Readers Book Study
(Summer 2012)

Here is the schedule for the book study.

Click on the images to be taken to a google.doc where you can then click on the hyperlinks to visit each blog/co-host.