Happy New Year! I feel like 2023 was a good year and I’m looking forward to getting started with 2024. I’m anxious, hopeful, and excited for this new beginning, and I wish all of you happiness and good fortune.
I learned about One Little Word at http://www.aliedwards.com many years ago as I found writing inspiration at Two Writing Teachers (http://www.twowritingteachers.org). I look forward to many changes coming for me and my family this year, so My OLW for 2024 is CHANGE.
What is One Little Word®? (From the website)
In 2006 I began a tradition of choosing one word for myself each January—a word to focus on, to live with, to investigate, to write about, to craft with, and to reflect upon as I go about my daily life. These words have each become a part of my life in one way or another—a process I document via simple creative monthly prompts from January to December.
You’re invited to join me in choosing your own One Little Word®.
I’ll post more about my OLW in the coming months and over the course of the year, but for right now, I cannot tell you anything else. Stay tuned! In the meantime, keep reading and writing! If you need a work partner for a project surrounding independent reading, personal reading goals, classroom libraries, or how “picture books are perfect”© for middle school and beyond, please contact me through my email. I’m happy to discuss your goals with you. (jdsniadecki@readingteacherwrites.blog)
Reading Teacher Writes 
I love your OLW for 2024! Change is never easy but impossible to avoid so it’s wonderful that you’re embracing it. I also love that you mentioned picture books are perfect for middle school and beyond. This is something I presented in a workshop and also demonstrated quite successfully in our middle school when one of the sixth grade teachers was struggling with his literacy block and I had to come in and ‘rescue’ him and his students in the second half of the year. Bravo!
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