What is the best way to manage spelling in the classroom? When I was a student, everyone had the same list every week. But this is not the b...

Several weeks ago, as part of an assignment for a class, I administered the QRI to my son. He breezed through the readings and answered the ...

At a workshop last year, two teachers told me that their principal frowned upon retelling. Because they taught at the intermediate level, th...

What do you do when a kid asks you how to spell a word? The standard procedure, as practiced by many, is to refer the student to the diction...

Toward the end of school, I started to worry about my students' spelling. I had a vague notion that our program wasn't working as we...

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning activity in which students become experts on a topic, and then teach their classmates about that topic. Whi...

Thank you to all who attended the workshop on 6/17. What a great group! It was a pleasure to work with you and hear all of your great ideas....