I'm delighted to be presenting about content area reading experiences at Shippensburg tomorrow! Well, I admit that I'm not delighted...

   Sometimes the trouble with teaching for 20+ years is the curse of knowledge. I have tried so many different techniques and noticed so man...

In Pennsylvania, text-dependent analysis is a big deal.  Teachers in schools all over the state have probably worked with their text-depende...

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    Many years ago I went to an in-service presentation about Lions Quest, the character education program funded by the Lions Clubs. Althou...

There are very few times when I will reuse lesson plans. In fact, sometimes I write plans that I don't even use an hour later! I'm a...

Building a classroom library has been the task of my career. From a number of sources--school hand-me-downs, used book sales, online purch...