I have to say I have  been overwhelmed with the amount of freebies and sales going on due to Teacher Appreciation.  Overwhelmed in a very good way:)  As a teacher myself, I know how hard we all work and this time of year is even harder with all the end of year things to do, assessments, inventories..... So, I was inspired by the blessings I ...

Read, read, read.....we LOVE to read!!! Now that our state testing is done we have hopped right into Literature Circles in my classroom.  The students love doing this and it is a great change to our routine.  Since this year is the first year for me to use Daily 5 in my classroom, I wanted to make sure and try to keep that routine along with ...

It always seems that when kids are asked to make predictions, they always predict what will happen at the end of a story. For that reason, it's important to model predicting. I often use a fairy tale or short story to help them learn how to predict what will happen NEXT. Read a part of a fairy tale, stop and ask what's happened. After volunteers ...

I'm presenting another poster at  Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Section 8: Teacher Professional Development: Impact on Teacher Practices and Student Learning.   Several years ago, I was supervising a student teacher at a middle school and the CT was using literature circles.  I was curious how the practice got started in the school ...