My Life as a Literacy Educator

In Part I , I discussed my writing lesson using the vocabulary words plausible and preposterous , with the addition of the word there , usin...

Before I left for my trip to San Marcos last week, my students were reading an article about the Loch Ness monster in Scope magazine. In o...

Sixth Period For today's library lesson, my kids are speed dating with books. I did not know what to expect with this particular l...

As we continue our journey of vocabulary development, I am taking some time in class to have kids review the vocabulary we have focused on f...

Sometimes I have to wonder if the statements my students make are incredibly odd or insightfully genius. Today, I am going with genius.  I...

Today was the day. After days of anxiety and nervous tension, I was filmed presenting the vocabulary routine that is part of my campus Data ...

This year, I am getting much better about reusing lessons that work, rather than reinventing the wheel for everything I do. For the past two...