A reader asked me for a book list for wholesome beginning (early) chapter books that do NOT have potty humor and rude characters with sassiness.

This week in CAFE and the daily five. We reached 12 minutes of stamina one day and then 3 the next :( We were back to 8 today. I can at leas...

I have been SCRAMBLING getting ready for report cards and conferences. I had close to 20 learning plans to write in reading, writing or math. I love these sweeties, but, boy, we have work to do! Here is our Thanksgiving bulletin board and our writing of what we are thankful for. Nine of my darlings are thankful for God and I just love that! I, of course, did not suggest that {even though I would if I didn't teach in a public school}. We are getting better at these directed art activities…

Teaching Text Features in the class! Set the Stage to Engage by transforming your classroom into a surgery room. Students will dissect the text to find and interpert text features.

This instructional video is only the beginning of eSpark Learning's iPad-specific personalized learning system - there's more! We streamline the best third-p...

What do we find in a fairy tale? Free anchor chart for helping students learn about the most common elements of fairytales.

I have gathered ten of my favorite practice pages for teaching text features. Each handout teaches about a certain content while covering Common Core Standard RI2.5. My students need constant review of this standard, and this packet gives you themed material to use throughout the year! TOPICS:Ama...

State Reports • Nonfiction Text • Informational Writing ***SPRING 2016: This resource is now FREE!***

Love these poetry anchor charts! They were perfect for my language arts bulletin board. I also made copies for my writing workshop folders. This was a great poetry vocabulary resource!

Several students in my university courses and colleagues and friends have asked which books published in 2016 I’d recommend. Whether you’re someone building a classroom wish list, a Chr…

Yes, it has it’s own board on my Pinterest account. I used to be embarrassed by how fascinated and excited I was about classroom libraries. I paroused thrift stores, hit up retiring teachers,…

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Create a Text Feature Book - Teaching Made Practical

These are some of my favorite books to use when teaching nonfiction text features. Head over to the post to read some of the features I teach with each text as well as a few, fun activities!

Nonfiction reading is so important for kids -- and not just because Common Core says it is. Here's the best list of nonfiction books that will get kids reading!

Just in time for the March 9 movie release!