What do you do when you want to recognize Earth Day but you don't have the time to take away from Reading and Writing instruction?  Es...

In KyRose takes a Leap, protagonist KyRose struggles to find herself as she navigates her superpowers, something her classmates don't h...

  I recently came across some notes for something I'd wanted to try from early 2020.  I had watched a brief video somewhere, probably on...

"The theme is that they tried harder and persevered." Sigh. Yeah, no. Keep reading to see what I do to teach theme (and to downloa...

  There are lots of good reasons to get your students involved in a March Madness Reading Challenge.  I'm only giving you three because ...

  There's no doubt in my mind why Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson won the Newbery this year!  It's historically accurate, filled wi...

  You probably know Alan Gratz from Refugee and his many other books about World War II, or maybe Ground Zero, about the World Trade Center ...