As I look ahead to working on inferring skills in the next two weeks, I want to find out more about what my students can do. Here is a simpl...

For a period of time, my youngest son thought that "chicken" was a multiple meaning word. There was the chicken that was the anima...

Recently, I wrote about using a cloze to find out how students are using context. The results were so interesting! As I flipped through the...

For the last few years, my text structure instruction has looked fairly similar: 1. Give an overview of what structure means 2. Help kids...

This week, I switched our focus from looking at chronological order text to looking at cause and effect text. Students often confuse these t...

How do readers understand context? If you really want to see what your students can do, try a simple cloze activity. Take 200 or so words fr...

Today we finished our Chronological Order centers . Hooray! Interestingly, the kids liked the historical text (The Great Chicago Fire, from ...