Lying to Students Can Be a Good Thing

So I've come to this uncomfortable place in my summer where I'm starting to gear up for the school year, and therefore don't have as much time as I would like to be reading. Additionally, suddenly everybody and their mother wants to loan me books to read, but none of them are kids' books. So I haven't been reading like I should.

On Friday, I read Muggie Maggie. At a training. While I was sitting next to my principal. She applauded my effort in reading the students' books and agreed with me that Q&A sessions in a room of 100 people generally drag on a bit too long.

Clocking in at a zippy 66 pages, it was terribly easy to get through. And a cute little book. Maggie refuses to learn cursive, so her teacher makes her the class messenger and sends her all over the school delivering notes, all written in cursive. Maggie's curiosity gets the best of her, but she can't read cursive, she has to learn it herself.

A cute little story with a simple premise. It gets an O for a reading level, but probably only because some of the vocabulary is higher level. Otherwise, it could easily be an N. This book is currently in my classroom library, and I think I'll keep it there. I don't know that it's a strong enough example of an O to really use for guided reading, and I like to use books with a little more meat to them, so this might just stay a library book.

I am currently working my way through the second Heroes of Olympus book, which is why I'm not really reading anything else. I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow or Tuesday, and perhaps read another book between then and now. But I might be biting off more than I can chew, who knows?