This week, we have been working on cause and effect text structure. Cause and effect is deceptively difficult for young readers. On the surf...

Over the last two weeks, we've been looking at chronological order text. I like to start with this text structure for several reasons: ...

Last week, I finished reading aloud There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom with my end-of-day class. It was a wonderful moment--we ha...

Classroom ready materials for comparing poems and other texts can be found here : Comparing Texts and Comparing Texts 2 As the last part ...

One of the key aspects of teaching figurative language is helping students to interpret figurative language. How do we go about doing this? ...

Now we're taking a short poetry break between nonfiction units. What fun! Here are some things that are working really well in my classr...

As I've been working with my students on creating main ideas and building paragraphs, one nagging problem has come up again and again: t...