Hi Y'all! I am so happy to be one of 28 literacy/reading specialists involved in the Super Sleuth Blog Hop!  I love crea...

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has released practice tests for grades 3-8, and 11.  You can check them out here .  In order t...

(unknown) I love this poster!  Reading with a pencil is a great way to look at annotating!  Thinking out loud on paper is another w...

One of the articles I read recently was   Sailing Over the Edge; Navigating the Uncharted Waters of a World Gone Flat  by Kylene Beer...

Perseverance is not giving up.  It is the effort required to keep doing something in spite of the fact that it is difficult. It is grit...

Download Earth Day Poem I made a poem for Earth Day.  I used the form of Haiku because of its emphasis on syllables.   Syllable work ...