I've been listening to some podcasts on my way to and from work lately - Simple Pin, Go-Getters, and Monica Froese - and I've lea...

By the time you get to November, hopefully you've got students reading away!  But sometimes you need to provide a little more incenti...

A lot of teachers don't like to teach writing.  It can be overwhelming to think about how to merge grammar and conventions without tak...

But first, a word....these are my thoughts about fostering a love of reading. Not killing it. I recently received a complementary comm...

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...