Colorful Resources & Ideas for Teachers with a Teaching Heart
Here’s a perfect writing craftivity to go along with the Mystery Genre. I used this activity with my second graders in guided reading groups. Each group read a Cam Jansen mystery together. To summarize their story, they each created a top secret case file. That included clues they found while they read, a summary […]
I shared this idea a few years ago from my son’s third grade teacher. Now, my daughter was lucky enough to get the same teacher for third. I just love this idea, I had to share it again!!! First she sent home a letter explaining that each student would be sharing the gift of reading […]
So what do you prefer to read??? Do you like Broccoli books or Twinkie Books the best? Or do you like a mixture of the two? Ok, you may be going, “huh?” Let me explain: back when I first started teaching one of the veteran teachers (Mrs. Boyton – Silver Ridge) made a comment that […]
I just finished hosting my book club for the book Firefly Lane. I personally loved the book… Definitely a total chick flick-read – grab the Kleenex! I think I liked it so much because it made me think about my friends (just what is a friend and what would you do for a friend?) , […]
