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Pump students up for summer reading! As the school year winds down, parents and students often ask for a summer reading list or suggested reading ...

Top 3 Reasons Characters Matter and Why We Love Them We learn about their lives. When we pick up a book, we often look for ourselves in it through...

Go ahead and sing Kool & The Gang’s "Celebration" song over and over because Children’s Book Week is almost here! From April 30-May 6, we celeb...

When readers sit side-by-side with a reading partner, there are many things we hope for them to do. Regardless of age, we hope partnerships will: ...

As teachers, we might ask the question, “If all of my students are reading different books at different times during independent reading, how can I...

In our next series of blog posts, we will explore tools that students might use to help them manage the materials and their thinking around their i...

This month we have focused on teaching reading in classrooms through the genre of Biography. For the last post in this series, perhaps we could se...

Biographies are on our brain for the month of February! If you are thinking more about a study around biographies with your students, then a place ...

For being the shortest month in the year, February sure has plenty going on! Groundhog Day kicks off the month to predict the future; Valentine’s D...

Welcome to our first blog post! Have you ever wanted to expand your classroom library or school bookroom to include more nonfiction? Are you look...