In the act of blogging, students are crafting and creating texts, sharing meaningful messages, and engaging in powerful literacy experiences. But, most students don’t see these activities as being literate because they are not school sanctioned.

This semester I’m teaching Adolescent Literature for the first time . . . and loving it. As a former 8^th grade Language Arts teacher, I was immersed in the texts that my students were reading. We would talk about texts, share book suggestions, and laugh/cry together over the characters’ predicaments.

I recently read an article in the New York Times and was struck by the debate over online reading versus printed-text reading. Reading is constantly changing in this world of technology. Many fear is that book reading may be a lost art. Students seem to be shifting their reading patterns and habits from books to online texts.

What is reading? I feel I must address this question first before embarking on this blogging journey.