A Poem for teachers too, perhaps? I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive....

Stealing is bad. Yeah. I know. But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so expensive. I didn’t think anyone would n...

One of my favorite activities to do when teaching point of view, is to have students take the book they're reading and rewrite a section...

  Ancient civilizations can be fascinating for students if you include projects, timelines, activities, maps, and other cultural projects.  ...

Studying about Mars can happen in Reading or in Science, and blending them together makes my heart happy!   Because, blending subjects.... ...

Teachers and students can be helped by using the RACE writing strategy to produce high-quality responses to questions with solid text-depend...

Teaching genres at the beginning of the school year makes sense.  But I'd argue it makes as much sense to review it - or teach it - when...

  I know.  You're hanging on as best you can.  Doors are being decorated, kids are decorating themselves, and you don't want to be *...

   You can read picture books to sixth graders.  For fun.  To teach a lesson.  To expand their horizons.   The Carpenter's Gift  by Davi...

Welcome to December, that exciting time filled with fun interruptions, and such high student energy that you're paddling as fast as you ...

A little back story here.   Some years ago, I taught a group of students who identified themselves as struggling readers.  And I noticed som...