How to Swipe a Free Play Part 2

A few weeks ago I blogged tongue-in-cheek about swiping reader’s theater scripts through nefarious means, so I thought I’d follow…

Great Reader’s Theater for Halloween

Fairies waving candied wands… Goblins drooling chocolate malt… Halloween has such a bizarre place in our classrooms. In my school…

I’m sure you remember those big FBI warnings at the beginning of our old VHS movies. Aren’t you glad the…

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

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

Seven years ago I assigned my fifth grade class a task called Letter to Myself at Graduation. “I want your…

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

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

While digging around for something to write about this week I stumbled upon a transcript from a pretty cool podcast…

My plays often make return appearances in Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine, such as The Daring Escape of Henry “Box” Brown this…