I'm in the middle of classroom preparation right now, trying to balance the fun tasks--setting out the classroom library, making posters...

Earlier I wrote about a unit that I planned for teaching students how to write thank-you notes. Now that I've started the unit, I am so...

Thank-you notes are one of my least favorite writing genres. I always struggle with expressing my true appreciation in a way that does not s...

Last week, Aidan and I visited a local park. We found some really neat acorns--smooth, shiny, and already starting to sprout! We filled our ...

It might seem strange to be teaching about genre at the end of the year. After all, shouldn't that be a topic for September? In Septembe...

This year, I decided to spend some extra time with procedural text. How-to texts, directions, instructions, whatever you want to call them--...

I love surprise stories. I love it when an author strings me along to think that things are going to unfold in one way, only to have them un...