Reading Is Thinking

Here is a poster for The Gardener,  the first story in the 4th grade Trophies anthology. The focus skill is narrative elements. I copied...

Here are some tools I use with small reading groups. The place marker is just a piece of laminating scrap with a line drawn with permanent ...

My mother is a quilter.(No, she's actually an artist who quilts.) Years ago she made me a queen size quilt called: The Story of the Unde...

Here is a word sort for the story Number The Stars. I had the students sort the list into 4 categories: Character setting problem so...

I really like this series by Jane Yolen. Each book is a different unsolved mystery from history. The text features she uses are really uniqu...

http://prezi.com/4h_czvbuopkv/eve-bunting/   I have been trying to learn how to use Prezi. What is interesting about it is you can use Prezi...

I like to have my 5th graders read at least 10 chapter books during the school year. Sometimes we read these stories in class and sometimes ...