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Reading is a valuable and critical skill that students need to develop. As teachers, we are always in need of fresh ideas and tips to help our kiddos soar to new reading heights. Explore this section to get started.

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6 Ways to Teach Reading Strategies by Reading a Good Book

Every classroom has reluctant readers - probably a few of them! This blog post shares four tips to motivate reluctant readers, including tips like going digital and comparing books and movies. Click through to read all of the suggestions in more detail!

4 Tips to Motivate Reluctant Readers

Reading fluency is about more than just pace, accuracy, and smoothness. It is also about expression! I share my process for teaching expression in fluency in this blog post, which includes a discussion of how punctuation marks influence expression and fluency. Get all of the tips in this post!

Teaching Expression in Fluency

A child's socioeconomic status highly influences his or her vocabulary attainment, but regardless of that, you should use a variety of ways to increase your students' vocabulary. I share several ideas in this post, and I've included a free chart that you can download, as well!

Increase Students’ Vocabulary

I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that vocabulary is extremely important in every classroom, regardless of what grade level or content you teach.

Teaching Expression in Fluency

Recently I posted 8 Ideas to Build Fluency, but there is so much more to fluency than just reading at a good pace and accurately.

Today, more than ever, it's important for teachers to be utilizing best practices in their classrooms. This is especially true for reading, where the reading best practices have evolved quite a bit and take on a while new approach from the old practices. This post describes each approach and the differences between the two, so click through to read more.

Are You Implementing Reading Best Practices?

I would like to think that most classrooms have started migrating toward the 21st-century reading best practices, but that is not always the case. In

Check out this list of ideas to spark an interest in words in your students! Many kids today fall into slang, text talk, video game talk, and other types of language, and they don't seem to have an interest in words and in building their vocabularies. The activities suggested in this post are meant to help spark an interest in words so that students become word collectors and build their vocabularies!

Spark Interest in Words

Too many students today speak a language of slang or video games. Their interest in words – real language – has fallen to the wayside.

Although it may not seem like it, reading fluency is incredibly important for comprehension. If students cannot read fluently, then their ability to comprehend what they read is impeded. This blog post shares eight ideas to help build fluency in your students, so click through to get all eight of them!

8 Ideas to Help Build Fluency

Fluency is extremely important because it takes students a step beyond word recognition and into the land of comprehension. Once students are no longer focusing

Do you hate the KWL chart? Me too! That's why I use this RAN Chart with every opportunity I get, because I think it's a much better nonfiction strategy! Click through to read how the RAN - Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction - chart works.

A Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction Strategy

I hate the KWL. I’m sorry if you are a huge fan of it, but any variation of it, I just hate. I don’t know

In search of ways to integrate more nonfiction into your class instruction? This blog post lists 10 ideas for bringing in more nonfiction texts and reading activities. Click through to learn more about how to integrate more nonfiction!

10 Ways to Integrate More Nonfiction into your Classroom

Common Core has required that we implement more nonfiction into our classroom. It’s so easy in elementary to focus on fiction texts, but sometimes it

Reading and writing about current events is a great way to keep students informed of what's going on in the world around them while simultaneously practicing academic skills. This blog post provides a strategy for upper elementary students to learn about current events, and a freebie is included!

Current Events in the Classroom

I like to teach my students to be aware of the events surrounding them in the world. To do this, I teach them how to

I wanted my students to be exposed to many different types of nonfiction reading - especially with the common core standards requiring it. That's when I decided to create this reading challenge freebie to engage them into reading nonfiction more! Check out this reading idea for your elementary classroom!

A Nonfiction Reading Challenge (And A Freebie!)

I’m a Common Core school district and that meant more informational text. By 4th grade, students are expected to have 50% of their passages be nonfiction reading

A Picture Book Scoot

In my school district, on Read Across America day, we dedicate the entire afternoon to just dropping everything and reading. There are some students in