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   You CAN read picture books to sixth graders.  For fun.  To teach a lesson.  To expand their horizons.   Here's why  The Carpenter...

I hope you eat some good food, have some interesting conversations, and get your bucket filled!

  H ere are 3 fun and creative Thanksgiving activities that will nurture the skills you're working on with your ELA students.  These are...

  I could see it in their eyes.  Yeah, Johannes Gutenberg created the movable type printing press.   So what?   Don't you know we have i...

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Finding the theme of a story is challenging in the same way that the compare half of comparing and contrasting is.  Your students can contra...