Check out the teacherspayteachers newsletter for this week . My Civil Rights Timeline Activity was included in the free downloads! Yay! Che...

Finally! A new product for Teachers Pay Teachers... This year, I started using word searches as part of my Words Their Way word study rou...

Have you heard of the 5 finger rule? Perhaps you have even taught it to students (like I did for 6 years). It’s a very catchy and eas...

"Building a reading life" means that I want students to TRULY build a life where reading is enjoyable, entertaining, and somethi...

This tip might work really well for you if you can't attend library time with your students (Tip # 4)-- Create a list of books from y...

Building a Reading Life Tip # 4:  GO TO LIBRARY/MEDIA TIME WITH YOUR STUDENTS and capitalize on this time. Hopefully you have another adul...

Tip #3: Know who your struggling readers are AS SOON AS POSSIBLE- -preferably before the school year starts--use end of year data and the ...

How can you help students have the best reading life ever? I used to believe simply providing students with independent reading every day,...

So, I have really got to get better at blogging. I'm going to try to commit to smaller posts 5 or so times a week. Let's see how ...

Here's the 4th/5th grade Science essential standards trace I promised in an earlier post. I created this document because I am teaching ...

I just uploaded my rocks and minerals vocabulary mat activity to teacherspayteachers. This year, I am teaching 4th grade, so  I will be cre...

Inside this pencil crouch words that have never been written never been spoken never been thought...                            ...

So, blogging again last week was a little ambitious for me. I went to two district days on the Common Core Curriculum , and by the end of t...

When the Writing Units of Study came to our district in 2006, I pushed back hard, although I had purchased The Art of Teaching Writi...

This week, I modified my biome sorting cards to a multiple choice smart board and powerpoint file. If your students need to be able to ident...

This year I find myself in a wonderful predicament. What do I do with nearly 6 weeks before the Math End of Grade test? Typically I have ...