Mentoring in the Middle
I spent part of winter break rereading  Summer of the Monkeys  by Wilson Rawls.  And falling in love with the book all over again.  Rawls...
My students had a lot of fun coloring these bookmarks, which I found at Dawn Nicole Designs .  She has a lot of great coloring pages and ...
We hit the ground running on Tuesday, when students came back from Thanksgiving break.  At the end of the week, after students had finished ...
Tired of reading logs? I've been tired of them for years.  I know there are better ways to get kids to show you what they've been ...
I've just finished reading two excellent books for the middle grades, both of which would make thoughtful read-alouds. Crenshaw dea...
  I'm linking up with two blogs: Jen at Teach Mentor Texts , and Kellee at Unleashing Readers to share books that I've finished ...
I'm linking up with Joanne over at Head Over Heels for Teaching because her blog post got me thinking about what I do to get kids exc...