Beyond Morning Message: Dozens of Dazzling Ideas for Interactive Morning Letters to the Class That Enhance Shared Reading, Writing, Math, and

I'd highly recommend this book to teacher's looking for ideas to make Morning Messages more valuable. My NYU student-teachers agree that Valerie Schifferdanoff provides great ideas for maximizing this opportunity for teaching and learning.

While helpful and full of good ideas, this book on morning messages through daily letters to your class is too general for the average classroom teacher. The main problem with the book is that it spans kindergarten through second grade, covering a range of age levels, though none very thoroughly. Unless you teach in a multi-age classroom, it leaves you feeling as though you should have paid much less for the amount of material that applies to your grade level.