
Benefits of Book Clubs
This is my second post in my eight post series about implementing book clubs into your classroom. Last week, I wrote an Introduction to Book Clubs, which you can read more about HERE. Today, I

This is my second post in my eight post series about implementing book clubs into your classroom. Last week, I wrote an Introduction to Book Clubs, which you can read more about HERE. Today, I

This post is the first in an 8 part series that I will write about implementing book clubs into your classroom. Today I will write an introduction about book clubs and dive further into

It’s not always rainbows and butterflies. I don’t know about you, but I can tell about the mood of my students the first minute they walk into the classroom in the morning. Their body language, facial

A couple of months ago, I noticed my students were rushing through their work, making careless mistakes, and using messy handwriting. On a daily basis, multiple times a day, I reminded students at the beginning of

What better way to teach expository writing, or procedural writing, than by writing a recipe for friendship? This post explains how my students wrote step by step directions for how to make a great recipe,

Common Core State Standards number 5 and number 7 within the Reading Informational Text strand state the teaching of each informational text feature and its function. With this in mind, I knew that I needed

I recently had a teacher ask me the question below, about finding multiple copies of leveled texts for guided reading groups. Teacher Question: In response to your guided reading groups: My district does not provide

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