Summarizing is very important in the Common Core. What do students need to be able to do? How can we prepare them for these demands? It can ...

I have to admit that description has always been my least favorite text structure. It doesn't have the drama of cause and effect. It doe...

Last spring, I made a formatted set of themes mini-posters. This year, I'm going to use them to create a bulletin board in my classroom....

The Reading Intervention that I talked about in the last post is active again and ready to download. I'll have it up for free until at ...

This year, our school went to an intervention block. Our fourth grade block was right after lunch. It was wonderful to have time to address ...

Last Tuesday, I presented a workshop called "Reading Strategies and the Common Core". (I'll be doing it again at KSRA in Octo...

What a week! On Tuesday, I presented a workshop related to the Common Core standards for reading; on Friday, I'm presenting an outdoor w...