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

    If it's the beginning of the school year, I must be talking about mental models! In reading, a mental model is a reader's repres...

     Another school year has begun! At the start of the year I am always eager to find out as much about my new readers as I can. I know tha...

I'm fascinated by exploring how readers tie together words on a page and images in their heads. Drawings really help to show a teacher w...

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 ...

Last Tuesday, I presented a workshop called "Reading Strategies and the Common Core". (I'll be doing it again at KSRA in Octo...

What is a mental model? I worked with my readers to figure this out this week. We had already talked about the word "model" in soc...

I love to teach visualizing. After all, there is a whole chapter about it in my book The Forest AND the Trees ! It doesn't really work t...

Have you ever tried to open a can with a can opener, only to find that the cutting mechanism hasn't engaged? You can turn and turn the c...

I Last year, as I was working with retelling, I noticed that my students loved stories with repetition. So I wrote the story "Gwen and ...