Do you feel like your students no longer notice spelling and grammatical mistakes in their work?  Sometimes it feels like students have l...

Where did Dusti Bowling, the author, come up with this tremendously readable idea?! Aven was born "unarmed."  At home in Ka...

I love winter.  I love snow and the way it magically coats the earth.  I especially love when it stops the world for a while, and as a tea...

You've seen it before.  A student - okay - maybe a couple of students - look at you with that wide-eyed-deer-in-headlights look and sa...

It's 2019. Aren't we beyond this?  Why is our study of African-Americans limited to one month?  Why not introduce our stude...

Where does this author come up with all of his crazy-wonderful ideas?  From The Honest Truth  to Some Kind of Courage  to Scar Island (whi...

Historical fiction is sometimes a tough sell for upper elementary students.  It's not that they don't like the ideas, it'...