Reading

What is Standards-Based Grading, Why is It So Hard, and How to Tackle It! Standards-based grading’s advent came around in 2012, two years after the

QAR: 4 Question and Answer Relationships to Help Students Clarify Text Teachers like to keep things fresh! We want to hold our students’ attention and

Bringing Text Alive: How to Use Pictures or Videos to Deepen Understanding A striking image, a funny video, a fascinating picture of a faraway place…what

Picture books and other fictional literature have long been a focus in elementary school, and that won’t be changing anytime soon. What has shifted in

Sometimes it seems like most information that adults encounter these days is condensed into a visual format. We just don’t have the attention span to

Most teachers out there would agree that questioning is an essential part of reading comprehension. Students have to be able to answer questions about what

Students are very used to seeing illustrations in the texts that they read. When reading fiction, illustrations can add rich details or set the mood

Stories, Poetry, & Drama: Fun, Effective Ways to Review Throughout the Year Imagine…you reach the end of your fiction reading unit, your students have worked

  Text & Illustrations: Why Pictures Really Are Worth A Thousand Words We’ve all heard the old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,”

You’ve been working with your students on understanding character traits for a while now. They are practically experts at:  identifying character traits describing characters finding

For many elementary students, the idea that other people have a different outlook on the world than their own view is pretty new! Kids tend