This year I've been following some amazing kindergarten teachers on Twitter. I started out teaching in a preschool, so I have a deep...

    I've wrestled with this question for many years. Many of my students come to fourth grade with huge word deficits and large gaps in ...

    Young readers have a great deal of trouble with dialogue. It seems as if the task of every autumn for me is to help readers learn how to...

Over the past two weeks, I have been working with point of view in my classroom. What an interesting endeavor it has been! I have found myse...

    This week, we have been looking closely at setting. In fourth grade, the big task of understanding setting means moving beyond stories w...

    In the first few weeks of fourth grade, I am all about words on the page. It's like coaxing squirrels out of hiding--the classroom n...

Right now I am deep into character traits in my classroom. And it is so delightful! I just love talking to students about characters and how...