...well, okay. They are a little scary. This year in Pennsylvania, we get to have an entirely new test in the spring! Instead of the stan...

   This week, Pinterest has repeatedly coughed up a pin with a generic summary frame. "Use with any informational text!" the capti...

    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...