You CAN read picture books to sixth graders.  For fun.  To teach a lesson.  To expand their horizons.   Here's why  The Carpenter...

I hope you eat some good food, have some interesting conversations, and get your bucket filled!

  H ere are 3 fun and creative Thanksgiving activities that will nurture the skills you're working on with your ELA students.  These are...

  I could see it in their eyes.  Yeah, Johannes Gutenberg created the movable type printing press.   So what?   Don't you know we have i...

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Finding the theme of a story is challenging in the same way that the compare half of comparing and contrasting is.  Your students can contra...

Sometimes, tackling a novel in your classroom is just too much—too much work at the moment, too much reading for some students, and too much...

 One autumn night, when the wind was high, And the rain fell in heavy plashes, A little boy sat by the kitchen fire, A-popping corn in the a...

Some students are knowledgeable about climate change.  Others are frightened by it.  You know your students best.  Is there a way to start i...

   "I want to write, I just don't know what to write about."   I wrote about using sentence starters to get kids hooked in thi...

This year's Presidential election has generated more than enough heated exchanges in the media!  I hope you discuss the election with yo...

  I was always intrigued by how students viewed writing.  Most said they hated it (at the beginning of the year) but with practice and a var...

  Why do we put Essential Questions on the board?  Is it to make our school districts happy or is there another purpose? As middle-grade ELA...

There's so much that's new swirling around them at the beginning of the year that students don't always remember what you've...

  Giving kids a chance to explore topics they're interested in - add a bit of research, some fun travel, and a design element or two and...

There are so many good ideas for students to get to know each other on the first days of school, but if you're like I was in 6th grade, ...

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