Back in 2008, as I was doing presentations about summarizing, I was surprised that teachers wanted more about text structures--more examples...

I love the promise of text annotation--the idea that students will take purposeful notes on a text, drawing arrows and underlining important...

Find classroom-ready sentence composing exercises and activities here : Daily Sentence Writing, Part 1 I'm not a huge fan of the typic...

These last two weeks have been so much fun in science! I have to admit that I like it as much as the kids. I love how scientific experimenta...

I am so excited that Frolyc is finally up and running for everyone! Here is a little bit of background. As many of you know, I get lots o...

Well...I have now had my class for seven school days. What a huge change! Now I have matched names with faces and faces with handwriting. I ...

One of the main challenges of the beginning of the year for me is keeping my focus on reading and thinking. It is easy to get wrapped up in ...