Great Reader’s Theater for Back to School

Before you crack those text books or assign that homework reading, how about blasting away all that summer slog with … More

How to Create a Library Culture

One of the greatest things my mother ever did for me was regularly take me to the public library when … More

“Talk Like a Russian Day” was a big hit in my classroom. Though it coincided with certain political events, there … More

The Major League Baseball season’s Spring Training is underway, which seems a trivial point in the broad scheme of academics. … More

Ah, politics. Everywhere you turn, folks are questioning the qualifications and competencies of each of the current candidates for the … More

We’ve been seeing it for the last year or so: the education pendulum on the verge of swinging. Standardized testing, … More

That you’re visiting my blog tells me you’re most likely already a fan of reader’s theater, so I needn’t tell … More

Perhaps many of you have figured this stuff out long ago. Me, after nearly 25 years of teaching, I recently … More

The Daring Escape of Henry “Box” Brown is making a reappearance in the January issue of Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine. In … More

This week I just want to say THANK YOU to all you FANTASTIC teachers who have used Read Aloud Plays … More