Have you read Refugee?  This is one of my all-time favorite books and it captured my students in a way that great books do.  Watch this v...

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This is a great time for teachers in the world of literature and narrative nonfiction.  There are so many good books to choose from!  ...

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Students are smarter than we think.  They know us. Better than we think they do. In the past few weeks, I've had conversations wit...

Learning how to use clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words seems like it should be pretty easy.  I mean, authors often provi...

When you open some books, you just read and read.  Some books, you put down.  And for others, you grab a notebook and start jotting down sen...