A Year of Reading

The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing has come and gone, but these books need a belated spotlight. Moonshot: The Flight of Ap...

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey (My review from GoodReads) Yes, yes I did. I made my students wait for this book unt...

LOST AND FOUND ACT 1 The hawks are whistling. Every morning I listen, wonder, imagine. The nest, constructed in a pignut hi...

Here are four picture books that are just right for comparing and contrasting. Pair these with the Global Climate Strike September 20-27  s...

photo via Unsplash From In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love...

Room on our Rock by Kate and Jol Temple illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton Kane Miller Books, 2019 This picture book is a reverso...

Unsplash photo by Torsten Dederichs You Just Don't Get It Befuddled and muddled your noggin's confused puzzled and troubl...

Wordless News . If you don't subscribe and use this resource in your classroom, now's the time to start. Creator Maria Fabrizi...

This is a repost from 2008. My brother and I just spent three days going through the last of the boxes of Mom and Family back home in...

I picked up a few poetry toys at nErDCampMI last week. With Instant Poetry , poetry forms meet multiple choice. You might want to try ...