What on earth do they have in common? That was a question that I was hoping to answer. As I wrote last time, I'm working with an enrichm...

This year, my school has adopted an intervention period right after lunch. I love it! On three cycle days, I work with students who need hel...

Summarizing still amazes me. When you sit down and think about all of the skills that a reader must coordinate to summarize a text, it'...

In a perfect world, I'd be able to explore nonfiction text structures over the course of several weeks. But the real world of teaching i...

Getting ready to start teaching a text structure unit? Here are some tips on how to get ready. Create tabbed binders My first step this y...

I'm starting animal adaptations this week! I love this unit because the kids get so excited to learn about animals. We start off by ta...

I'm always looking around for good examples of text structure to share with my students. (And, of course, when I can't find what I w...