This year I worked to put lots of new activities on Activity Circle, the digital platform for teachers to publish interactive content for st...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about exploring nominalizations as a tool for helping readers to understand content area texts. Today, I'll be...

Several years ago I decided to circumvent the homework/no homework debate by asking myself, "What would the very best homework act...

This summer, I'm reading The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons at the recommendation of my 16-year-old. While I would never use this wi...

    This week I had the pleasure of talking about close reading and textual analysis with some of my colleagues. It's been a topic that ...

"What do you have for making inferences?" When I read this question, coming just at the end of school, I knew that I needed to c...

The clock is counting down to the end of the school year! When the smell of honeysuckle floats through the air and the sounds of "Slap ...