I've linked up with Natalie at What the Teacher Wants and her Summer Bucket list .  A few days late, but it's worth putting it out ...

At the end of the year, I often get a gift card or two from my students to purchase new books.  They know how much I encourage reading and t...

Does anyone remember that show?  Or maybe the book?  I think it was a radio show, or maybe an early TV show?  Not sure. But I thought abou...

How do you manage your classroom library?  For years, I've had a checkout system where kids wrote their names and the book checked out i...

Always looking for new ways to engage kids in deeper, more analytical thinking, I decided about a month ago to have them read a short, two-p...

I was telling a colleague about a great couple of days I'd been having with my students as we tweaked a way they were responding to open...

I hope 2015 is a good year for you!  I was looking at a friend's facebook post yesterday and she proclaimed 2014 her best year yet.  And...

Did you have a good Thanksgiving?  Are you still enjoying the bliss of a much-needed longer break this Fall?  I know I am!   I've been...

I happened up Kim's post at Finding Joy in Sixth Grade which makes me want to say, "Yeah.  What she said." As little as I&#...

Sometime this summer, an editor approached me about reading some books by Clark Burbidge.  The books sounded interesting, and made me wonder...

How is it possible that this is the 9th Monday Made It of the summer?  Why is this the first time I'm linking up?  And why haven't I...

My students asked me to create a fun reading activity at the end of the year.  I thought I could get it finished in time, but alas, the scho...