A Year of Reading

Remember that rollercoaster poem from last Friday? Well, we've dropped in. We're done with the ready and the set, and it's all ...

Summer #bookaday is off to a great start. This week I discovered three books that I'll add to my classroom library this fall. The E...

This is one of a series of blog posts that continue the conversation around Still Learning to Read--teaching reading to students in gr...

This is one of a series of blog posts that continue the conversation around Still Learning to Read--teaching reading to students in gr...

I had so much fun with Monday's "Pair Share" post , that I thought I'd highlight another new pair I just put in the tub...

I started building the "Pair Share" tub one year when I had a group of students who were crazy about partner reading. I wanted to...

I was at Cover to Cover last Saturday, too. Like Franki, I didn't so much have a shopping list of books I was hoping to find, as I ha...

I made a trip to Cover to Cover this week and picked up a stack of books.  It is so different shopping as a classroom teacher than it...

I've spent some time in my new classroom over the past few weeks. I love being there and thinking about the space. I know it is early, b...