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 ...

Long ago last May, when I was just getting started with this blog, I wrote about a lesson that I used to help students write summaries. The ...

We've been talking about text features in my classroom--what they are, how to use them, and why they are important. But I knew that I ne...

We're talking about text features! Today we started out by examining the word feature. I've noticed that students already know the t...

It's January, time for my students to move on to working on personal narratives. One problem that I've had when we work on personal ...

Upon our return from the break, I've been teaching paraphrasing. Of course, in fourth grade, paraphrasing has a very different meaning f...

It's hard to do, it's hard to teach. But paraphrasing is so important for our young readers. When students can put ideas into their ...