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...