I love teaching because I love learning, and getting out to experience new things is a thrill for me. So when I read that the National A...

     On Twitter, it's very popular for consultants to tell people to get rid of worksheets. "Kids don't learn anything from a w...

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...