Our state testing has provided a nice way to transition from our study of text structure into fiction inferences. As I look ahead, I'm e...

As I look ahead at working with fiction inferences and narrative summarizing, I worked on a rubric that would reflect some of what I look fo...

I love using the click and clunk strategy! It has worked so well to help my struggling readers slow down and try to make sense of what they ...

What's been flying off my shelves lately? I always like to take a breath at this time of year to think about which books my students hav...

What is a mental model? I worked with my readers to figure this out this week. We had already talked about the word "model" in soc...

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...