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...

You want your kids to have fun this summer, but you also don't want them to fall any further behind.  There are easy - and fun - activit...

 Where did Dusti Bowling, the author, come up with this tremendously readable idea? Aven was born "unarmed."  At home in Kansas, w...

  I knew I needed to see more when I saw pictures of the art Jodi Oakley's students had created using sliced bread.  Yes, slices of brea...

Oh, her writing!  Kelly Barnhill knocks it out of the park with this story.  If you still have time for a read-aloud, please read this one t...

 Hi friends, This post is short and sweet.  I want to make sure you do this important step before you buy anything on TeachersPayTeacher...

  I was never a fan of giving up the structure of the school year once state testing was over.  That didn't mean we didn't have fun....

Jennifer Chan is Not Alone is the latest book by Tae Keller, author of When You Trap a Tiger.  I received an eARC in exchange for a review. ...