One of the main challenges of the beginning of the year for me is keeping my focus on reading and thinking. It is easy to get wrapped up in ...

Recently, I wrote about using a cloze to find out how students are using context. The results were so interesting! As I flipped through the...

How do readers understand context? If you really want to see what your students can do, try a simple cloze activity. Take 200 or so words fr...