This week, my students chose novels for literature circles. Under normal circumstances, I stack piles of books around my classroom and...

It started with First Chapter Fridays. Like many teachers, I was looking for ways to continue connecting with my middle school ELA...

Book reports and summaries are a thing of the past. Engage your middle and high school students with five book report alternatives that...

Tired of asking your students the same old question-and-answer, paper-and-pencil style reading comprehension questions? Here are five...

As teachers, we often feel like in order to get kids learning, we need to be driving the work of learning. Passion projects will prove...

"We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being...

Imagine being able to encourage your student readers from home. Even better, imagine your student readers encouraging other student...

Two years ago I changed my grading practices from the traditional 0-100 scale model to Standards Based Grading (SBG). Making this change...

Show students the power of literature in our lives: the power to make us think, to make us feel, to make us look at the world in a whole...