"Mrs. Kissner! Mrs. Kissner! Can I read my words to you?" This has become a common question in my classroom during arrival time,...

Analyzing stories is a tough task for fourth grader. First they have to read and understand the whole of the story. Then they have to analyz...

I love maps. I love finding the ways to get places, looking at how the roads go (and comparing it to how the roads went ), and finding names...

Ah, the joys of open-ended responses. They can be frustrating to students and teachers alike. On the other hand, they can also be exciting a...

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...