One aspect of independent reading that is often overlooked is how carefully it needs to be maintained throughout the year. Things can go fro...

The text structure of chronological order, or sequence, is all around. For many students, this is the easiest structure to understand, becau...

So here is my problem with text structure. For some students, the mere mention of "cause and effect" is enough to get them to reme...

It's important for students to understand how to find main ideas. With my fourth graders, I am always fighting against their impulsive h...

Revising! I always find this step of the writing process frustrating. So many of my students just want to rush headlong through the writing ...

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 ...