When I first learned the term "mental model", it made perfect sense to me. A mental model is the reader's mental representatio...

Variety, variety, variety. This is what we should be pushing students toward in independent reading--a broad range of genres and texts. Righ...

It's about time for me to assess text structure! What should students know and be able to do? What should we look for? These are some ta...

What should reading homework look like? As I've taught at different grade levels, I've struggled with this. On the one hand, I would...

One more suffix post! Last week, we looked at how the suffix -ly could be used to make inferences. Interestingly, I learned that there were ...

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...