I’m so happy to join The Reading Crew to bring you “Building Writers with Mentor Texts.”  I will be sharing a compare and contrast lesson using two books from the Mother Bruce series by Ryan T Higgins. These hilarious books are a huge hit with my kids at home and in school.  They chronicle the adv…

“Help!  My student can read the words but can’t write them!”  This is something that I hear a lot and is a question I used to ask often.  I was constantly puzzled by kids who could read the words, but it was a struggle when it came to writing those EXACT same words. After asking our literacy …

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am a technology nerd at heart!  I am constantly on the hunt for ways to incorporate technology into my reading groups and literacy-based lessons. Here are 5 of my favorite blog posts from teachers who share my love of technology!  Each post focuses on one simp…

My day is made up of reading groups with students who are in kindergarten all the way up to 5th grade.  Although their needs are very different (kindergarteners we may be working on letter sounds, while 5th graders are tackling multisyllabic words), one thing is the same - our daily routine.  …