I love read-aloud time in my classroom.  It's one of my favorite things to do.  This is time for kids to sit back and listen to good ...

This book won the Newbery Award last year, and so I knew it was going to be good.  After all, lots of people, who make more time to read g...

"I just don't like reading all that much," he said, as he put another book back on the shelf. We'd talked about books...

How do you accommodate the needs of many different learners in your ELA class?  This year, there seems to be a greater distance between my s...

I'm a huge fan of Jordan Sonnenblick, whom I've met once or twice.  He's such a nice guy.  And he gets middle schoolers, having ...

I was introduced to BOOM cards two years ago.  Since that time, I've heard rave reviews from primary teachers about how much their kid...

Ruta Sepetys takes little nuggets of history and turns them into powerfully told, hard-to-forget novels.   Fifteen year old Lina, her...