As we move past state testing and into the last months of the year, I like to have students work in literature circles. Literature circles a...

As I work with students on summarizing, character traits, and character emotions, I try to convince them to use more specific, detailed word...

As I wrote last week, we're in the final stretch of test prep, and so we are brushing up on story elements and fiction summarizing. The ...

Here is a Powerpoint that I wrote a few years ago to help students learn how to summarize a narrative. It introduces students to the bad str...

When teaching poetry, it's often easy to just break it down into small bits. This bit is personification, this bit is alliteration, this...

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...