A collection of cause and effect texts for your classroom: Cause and Effect Texts for Teaching Text Structure The behavior of animals at...

Here's a blog post that I wrote for Teaching Tolerance: http://www.tolerance.org/blog/indoor-recess-time-unifying-games As we get to...

If you're looking for some problem and solution texts, here is a link to a short article that explains problems with honeybees and possi...

At our mentor texts workshop, teachers found picture books that they'd like to use in their classrooms and worked on how these books cou...

We had a great conversation about doing more with less at today's professional development workshop! First we talked about what we will ...

This is my fifteenth year of teaching! So that means that I have had 14 years of experience with getting a classroom ready--and 8 classroom ...

As I think about the coming school year, I'm most excited about science. Last year was my first year of teaching fourth grade science, a...