Using Pictures to Create Scientists – With a Freebie!
Not too long ago, Kelly W. told me, “My students will be reading about Albert Einstein, and your pictures remind me of how he looked at
Not too long ago, Kelly W. told me, “My students will be reading about Albert Einstein, and your pictures remind me of how he looked at
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’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
When teaching my students the concept of summarizing, I like to make sure they understand that they just can’t write everything. Have you ever had
Every time I teach main idea I always start with this little demonstration. I get out an index card, a clump of clay, and four
This week’s mentor text is the book Enormous Smallness: A Story of E.E. Cummings by Matthew Burgess. This is a nonfiction biography that centers around
