My Life as a Literacy Educator

Last week, as we continued through our practice round of vocabulary collecting , I moved beyond definitions and brief products to synthesis...

First, if you understood the allusion in my blog title, you are too old to know how to use the internet. How big do you have this text zoo...

Due to a Monday holiday, a day-long meeting Tuesday, and my son getting in an accident with a hit-and-run driver Tuesday afternoon (he's...

Sixteen word poetry did not quite go as planned, but it still worked. I planned on two days for this lesson so that we would have time to w...

Once again, Corbett Harrison has inspired me. This time, he suckered me in with his Vocabulary Collectors ideas and examples .  I have mo...

This week, my students have district curriculum testing: reading on Tuesday and math on Wednesday. Each test mimics a real state test to hel...

This is how I woke up this morning.