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...

In our curriculum, we start the school year with stories and story elements. I love this beginning as it helps us to talk about big ideas li...

As we move past state testing and into the last months of the year, I like to have students work in literature circles. Literature circles a...

As I wrote last week, we're in the final stretch of test prep, and so we are brushing up on story elements and fiction summarizing. The ...