Sunday, January 11, 2026

This Week in Booktube: January 11, 2026
(These are the Booktube videos I watched this week. As always, I encourage you also to check out each of the videos I've linked to down below.  Support Booktube.  And let me know what you've watched this past week.)

Google document: docspub

Reading This Life: Why This Community Matters

Big Hard Books & Classics Friday Reads!

Reading This Life Where’s Neil? One Year Later

jim's books reading & stuff What are YOU Reading, Wednesday (34)?

Steve Donoghue: Shawn D. Standfast

Derek Green: Pile of possibilities/ Historathon!!

Bucky749 Booktube: wham comics issue 2 review.

Revenant Reads Monthly Wrap-Up | Dec. 2025

Author Blaize Stewart: Five-Minute Book Review: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

Vicky's Book Nook: Book Review: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt) Historathon 2026 | Pile of Possibilities/Recommendations for Quarter 1

jim's books reading & stuff My Best of 2025 Tag

Books I'm Not Reading Books (outside my goals) I'm Dreaming About Reading in 2026

Joseph Francis Burton Tree, by Francisco Sionil Jose - book discussion

Steve Donoghue An Irish Stew Video for 4 January 2023
Bucky749 A small pick up video .

Mindy's Book Journey: January TBR


Chappaquiddick: Movie Review

This is my first time watching this movie, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.



Saturday, January 10, 2026

Steps for Learning CVC Words

(TESOL Worksheets--CVC words)

Basic Version: docs, pub
Expanded Version: docs, pub

Notes: In an effort to make my teaching of CVC words less scattershot and more systematic, I developed a framework for the steps that I would go through with a group of students.  I first developed the basic version, but some of my students needed extra practice, so I developed an expanded version which has a lot of extra steps.  Over time I'll be posting completed examples of this framework on this blog, and indexing them at the top of the post.
Below is the expanded version.

1

Watch Youtube video

2

Introduce words and sounds and pictures

3a

drill words: receptively

3b

drill words: productively

4a

match words to pictures

4b

match the words to pictures memory game

5

write words: copy them

6

write words: whiteboard practice

7

write words: match to picture

8

2 word combinations: introduce

9a

2 word combinations: drill them receptively

9b

2 word combinations: drill them productively

10a

2 word combinations: match words to picture

10b

2  word combinations: match words to picture memory game

11

2 word combinations: copy the words

12

2 word combinations: match combinations to picture

13

2 word combinations: write the combination matching

14

2 word combinations: whiteboard practice

15

2 word combinations: write the combination

16a

read longer sentences/ story on slides

16b

read the longer sentences/story on worksheet

17

Longer sentences: Match the sentences to the picture

18

longer sentences: copy the sentence

19

Whiteboard practice

20 

longer sentences: write the sentence

21

introduce contrasting CVC family

22

contrasting CVC family: drill words

23

contrasting CVC family: match the cards to the pictures

24

contrasting CVC family: whiteboard practice

25

contrasting CVC family: write the words

26

Contrasting CVC family: longer sentence/story

27

Contrasting CVC family longer sentence story: Match the sentences to the pictures

28

Contrasting CVC family: write the sentence/story: whiteboard practice

29

Introduce consonant clusters and digraphs

30a

consonant clusters and digraphs: drill words receptively

30b

consonant clusters and digraphs: drill words productively

31a

consonant clusters and digraphs: match words to pictures

31b

consonant clusters and digraphs: match words to pictures memory game

32

consonant clusters and digraphs: write words: copy them

33

consonant clusters and digraphs: write words: whiteboard practice

34

consonant clusters and digraphs: write words: match to picture

35

consonant clusters and digraphs: read longer sentences/ story

36

consonant clusters and digraphs: Match sentences to the picture

37

consonant clusters and digraphs: longer sentences: copy the sentence

38

consonant clusters and digraphs: longer sentences: write the sentence




Cascade Burton Park in Winter

(Travelogues--West Michigan)