Clare Landrigan is a lead teacher at Clinton Path Preschool in Brookline, Massachusetts, and leads a staff development business partnering with school systems to implement best practices in literacy. She is the coauthor of It's All about the Books: How to Create Bookrooms and Classroom Libraries That Inspire Readers, published by Heinemann, and Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers behind the Numbers, published by Stenhouse.
George and Jack navigate a path, strewn with blocks, to the outlet in the corner of the room.“Mine needs it.”“So does mine.”“Mine is on red.”“Okay—mine is on yellow. You go first. We can use mine.” They leave one block under the outlet and return to...