As I've watched my sons develop into readers, I noticed how they both started to delve deeply into a preferred topic in second grade. My...

Just as I like to work on summarizing throughout the year, I also like to work on comparing texts. Kids naturally enjoy finding connections ...

Find classroom-ready materials for teaching point of view : Point of View Stories and Activities Point of view is now a fourth grade skill...

There are some activities that transcend classrooms, ages, and ability levels. These are the golden activities that have big ideas that can ...

Early October brings a mix of emotions in the classroom. On the one hand, there is the elation of feeling that we have finally come together...

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of pulling out my presentation suitcases and doing a presentation about summarizing. I've been pres...

Right now, we've come up with a very workable arrangement for our co-teaching class. It's a model that works well and limits the num...