My Life as a Literacy Educator

Prior to any drill in our building, we receive a group email letting us know what type and when so that we may prepare our students and ours...

We are just about two weeks away from our eighth grade state reading test. As much as I hate standardized testing, it is currently part of...

There is going to be family strife over my posting this, but I do not care. Aside from one phone call shortly after moving to Texas and a ...

It is very frustrating to get excited about a lesson that does not turn out as planned. I spent two days explicitly teaching the voc...

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...