Tales of a Reading Specialist

Great blog post on Close Reading with Little Learners: Click here. Reading Closely in Kindergarten - Episode 1 Reading Closely in Kind...

One thing that our school is heavily focusing on this year is citing evidence to written responses. Our school has focused a lot on sentence...

Tonight I was attending a webinar on Active Engagement Strategies with Laura Candler and I learned about this fabulous new response system c...

As a teacher, it is important to practice what you preach. So if we are pushing our students to read everyday, so should we. Donalyn Miller,...

With our new multi-measure evaluations in PA, one of my goals was to boost parent communication. I used to send out mass e-mails which was t...

Better late than never! Even though its almost August, I thought I would add my July Currently from Oh' Boy 4th Grade . These "Curr...

With our school's transition to the Common Core Standards, we have decided to start posting Essential Questions and Learning Objectives ...