The teacher's request on Facebook was what to do for 8th graders who struggled to read any book for more than one class session.   That ...

Do you spend some of your summer stressing about what and how you'll be teaching certain topics? I did this when I taught Social Studies...

  " So, we're going to treat the Revolutionary War like a football game, okay?  Because that's what it was like, one team advan...

  "H e says he hates to read, but I know you'll change his mind."   "I asked for her to be in your class because you'...

The woman in the video was screaming, emotional, passionate.  I couldn't take my eyes off of her as she frustratedly explained why #Blac...

If you're an upper elementary or middle school teacher, you've most likely heard of Alan Gratz, the author of Refugee, Grenade, Proj...

These three books...each one so different from the other...and yet, the resourcefulness and persistence each protagonist shows in her cir...

"I finished my book and I don't have anything else good to read."  "I don't know what to read next." Now that...

Fans of Percy Jackson will be happy with the  Rick Riordan Presents  series. Written about underrepresented cultures in literature, these...

After finishing Wishtree  by Katherine Applegate, I've already decided that I'll start next year with this as my read-aloud.  The...

Where does this author come up with all of his crazy-wonderful ideas?  From The Honest Truth  to Some Kind of Courage  to Scar Island (whi...

Are you sometimes surprised a couple of months in to school, to discover that a student doesn't know another student's name?  I ...

Have you ever done something that you thought would help someone?  Only the thing you did went all wrong?  Maybe, because you hadn't ...