Supporting all learners in a mixed ability classroom can be a daunting challenge. Over the years, I've found that having the righ...

    I just love this quick routine for building student skill with finding text evidence. Yesterday, as we were reading the classic " T...

It's been nine years since I wrote a book about summarizing , and I keep feeling like I learn more and more. This year, as I've m...

    This week I had the pleasure of talking about close reading and textual analysis with some of my colleagues. It's been a topic that ...

It sure has felt like Antarctica at school this week!     As intermediate readers move into more complex, dense informational texts, the...

  Helping readers to make inferences in nonfiction can be tough. For narrative texts, inferences about character emotions and traits are eas...

     This week, I found that I could build visual skills, questioning, and inferring even with a very traditional topic/main idea activity...

    Young readers have a great deal of trouble with dialogue. It seems as if the task of every autumn for me is to help readers learn how to...

If it's September, I must be teaching about story elements. This week, we have been taking a careful look at character traits. I had to ...

Last week I stumbled upon a way to engage students in reading complex poetry. It was a wonderful, magical moment--made even more enchanting ...

Well...I have now had my class for seven school days. What a huge change! Now I have matched names with faces and faces with handwriting. I ...

Thanks for everyone who attended the workshops about the Common Core today! Maybe it wasn't the most fun way to spend a summer day, but ...