I recently talked about how mentor sentences do something *magical* for my students and their writing.  You can read about that here . St...

From the kitchen came a piercing scream. The green colored pencil slipped, streaking across the almost-finished portrait of a lizard Jai...

In the Darfur region of Sudan, Amira wakes up on her twelfth birthday and  Our village glistens, greets me with a wink that shine...

Would your students be able to identify Darfur on a map?  Guatemala?  Syria?  Students have access to so much information from the interne...

My first year of teaching was 2001.  I was in my third week of school when the planes hit the World Trade Center, and my principal came to...

"I wanted to say to Mr. Lewis that I'd never really played and I didn't intend to start now.  The other part of me wanted t...

Paper planners that you buy.  Pretty ones that you create and print.  Expensive ones, digital ones....there are so many ways to plan your le...