One teacher on our campus always wishes the students "Happy (insert the name of the day)!" as they arrive at school in the mornin...

I realize that the world kids are being raised in is so very different than the one I was.  I also realize that their knowledge and capacity...

I have spent a good portion of the day creating this Glog: to share with colleagues at our first Guided Reading session this Thursday.  Yo...

If we want our students to make wise selections of books, then we have to be constantly aware of their choices. I haven't read every sin...

While reading Donalyn Miller's book, The Book Whisperer, I am once again reminded of the importance of really knowing the kids we teach!...

I  read this great book by David Shannon to my struggling third grade readers the other day.  My goal?  To help them access schema.  I mean ...

If you have not read Marla Frazee's book Walk On! I highly recommend it!  At first, I picked it up to use in staff development courses. ...

Isn't this AWESOME? It's a "Wordle" created from this blog.  Imagine all the fun things you could do with a tool that p...

I have been reading The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller.  She is careful to note which books shaped the thinking for her book about awakeni...

Several years ago I worked as a Summer School Literacy Coach.   It was my job to train teachers who were going to be working with some of ou...

Here is a synopsis of the first six weeks to set up Literacy Centers in the K-2 classroom.  This is excerpted and adapted from The Next Step...

For so long, reading experts and educators everywhere were fixated on the "Fab 5":  Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabula...

Barbara Streisand sings, "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world."  There is no doubt that relationships are ...

And to round out our elementary lists of Read Alouds...here's a Fifth Grade suggested list.  Picture books are GREAT teaching tools...ne...