
4 Tips to Motivate Reluctant Readers
The best way to improve reading skills is by doing just that…reading. However, what can we do for children who are resistant to reading? How

The best way to improve reading skills is by doing just that…reading. However, what can we do for children who are resistant to reading? How

Teaching about timelines is a skill that crosses into language arts, science, and social studies, at the very least. It is often found as a

Each year for reading month, I like to make sure I have lots of activities going on to emphasize just how important reading is. Some

During reading month, we created reading stars. This was a school-wide activity called Reading Star that the students looked forward to every year. It encouraged

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!

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

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