Three years ago I had only the most rudimentary of graphic novel collections in my classroom. Now, I have enough so that 50% of my class is ...

This year I've been working on new Article Response sets to use as ongoing practice and homework with sixth graders. They have worked w...

    Students in my classroom have been working on writing a synthesis essay based on two different text passages. It's a process! Thi...

  Writing passage-based essays and other synthesis tasks are important for students. However, these tasks can be very frustrating for tea...

This week my students have been working on writing a passage-based essay. They are using two different texts from the Wonders series, an...

I really admire tessellations. When we set up our game of Catan, I always marvel at how the hexagons fit so beautifully together. The sam...

I've always been sort of ambivalent about task cards. While I like the idea of students getting up and walking around the room as the...