Raise your hand if you've brought your teacher bag home for the weekend loaded with papers to grade, and it lived in your car all weeken...

"I don't know what that word meant so I just skipped over it." "Can you pronounce it?   Nope?   Okay, how about any hints...

It looks like there's a horrible storm.  Maybe a hurricane knocked down that house.  I can't figure out what that man is carrying on...

This is such a good book that you can blend it with Science or Social Studies and Reading!  It's perfect if you do any studies on outer ...

If you haven't introduced your students to Pony by R. J. Palacio yet, you really need to!  It's one of the best novel studies for 5t...

It's hard to get students to pay attention to spelling and grammar when there's so much else going on in their lives, isn't it? ...

When I sent my middle child off to half-day kindergarten, she came home the first few days and fell asleep on the couch.  Her little body wa...