I love quick and easy strategies for my students. As an elementary teacher for over a decade, I really had fun teaching nonfiction (now informational) text with my third through fifth graders. With the pervasive nature of the new Common Core Standards, this is a requirement in classes now. Here is a great strategy to use with your students in… Read more →
The Common Core Reading standards are fast becoming a bit of genius to me. As I help teachers plan and devise approaches to unit organization, I notice a nature staircase or actual set of building blocks that exist naturally in the standards. The Reading for Literature Standards are progressive. While common core has not explicitly told teachers to introduce the concepts in order,… Read more →
Every so many years, there seems to be some shift in education. The pattern is inevitably uniform each time: Something is wrong in education that no one can fix. A new innovation promises to deliver the solution to wipe out this problem. As educators, we just need to get on board with the new, shiny, and nicely packaged new solution… Read more →
