For many students, summarizing a narrative is far easier than summarizing nonfiction. Narratives are organized in time order, t...

Picture books are a great way to help students summarize. After an engaging shared read, teachers and students together can work to summariz...

In my early reading years I did not have a good attitude toward the word prose , mostly because Anne of Green Gables described boring days a...

Right now, we're working on writing summaries of stories. And it's a difficult task! Every year, I find myself starting at the begin...

Last time, I wrote about moving beyond calling every text a "story".  As I work on planning my first unit for the school year (yik...

Okay, I have to admit it. I hate it when people refer to every text as a "story". I understand that it's second nature. ...

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 ...

Today, we talked about the differences between narrative and expository text. This is tough for fourth graders! When we look at books, they ...