It’s April already and the year is just flying by for me! Where does the time go anyway? I just finished reading Kelly Gallager’s new book Readicide: How School are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It and I have to say that Gallager definitely has a winner here! Since the rise of [...]

The holidays are a great time to pique student’s interest in reading. Halloween has many classic books that will interest kids of all ages from the Goosebumps series for elementary students to Steven King’s classic novels for high school students. In fact, one “scary novel” that still “haunts” me today is Peter Straub’s nail-biting thriller, [...]

Wow – The internet has the greatest tools! A free tool that you definitely will want students to take advantage of is www.bubblus.com. On this tool your students can collaboratively make connections to what they already know about the topic and then create a mind map of their ideas and connections. Following reading, students can [...]