Me:   You just read this page.  Can you tell me a little about what you know? Student: Ummmmm. . . . (Insert wait time here.) Me:  I k...

Recently, I received this email from a reader: Hi there, I have been following your blog for quite sometime and would like to ask a quick ...

On Monday, I finally started on my classroom.  It's been a project because 80% of everything I have was in a box.  This year, I am onl...

Many years ago, I spent a lot of time making an author's chair.  If you aren't sure what an author's chair is, it is "just...

Well, I thought I was closer to finishing my room than it turns out I really am!   Did you ever look at pictures taken in your home and star...

Yesterday, I posted about a writing board I have.  Today, I'm going to quickly tell you about a very similar board that I use for readin...

Do you know Mr. George Baker?   To know him is to love him. This is one of my favorite picture books.  It's about a man who is 100 yea...

So, I think I've mentioned that I've been in one school district, one school, for the past fifteen years.  For the fifteen years I h...

This year, I revised the materials in my reader's notebooks.  I'm using a combo of a binder and a notebook for reading workshop thi...