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.
If you have been around a while here at my blog, then you know that I love picture books and using them as mentor texts!
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.
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.
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
Too many students today speak a language of slang or video games. Their interest in words – real language – has fallen to the wayside.
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
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
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
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’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
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
I love when I can find nonfiction texts that can be used in both reading and in other curricular areas, such as science. Today’s mentor
