What's the best time of year to introduce genres to your students?  How about during the first weeks of school?   Genre study at the b...

Your students know to come into your classroom and take their seats.  They know to get out their materials, too.  But they've come in fr...

What do you do when a student tells you they don't like to read? Or when they're enthusiastic about reading the books in your room b...

There's nothing better than a good book.  Even better than that is a good book that's been recommended by a student!   A few years a...

  Don't you just love it when your students take an idea and poke at it until they start to understand the concept better?  Sometimes it...

A bit of Inkheart with a touch of Harry Potter?  I'm in, ready to keep reading and many of your students will be, too! I was sucked in f...

  I remember walking into the library with my kids when they were young.  My son was maybe 8 or 9 and he headed right to the nonfiction sect...

  I was talking to a teacher friend recently, and she told me a funny story about listening to a first grader lead his class in the Pledge o...

  Have you read Free Lunch by Rex Ogle?  It's a powerful tale about the stigma of growing up in poverty and learning that your parents...

The past few years have affected our kids' reading and this summer may have you concerned.  Does your child, or do your students need to...