Rick Riordan is my new favorite author.  I just finished reading The Son of Neptune and absolutely loved this book.  Rick Riordan's writ...

With our standardized testing right around the corner, we've been doing test prep.  Many of our students are struggling with the geometr...

As I  previously wrote about , the time has come when I have extra homework for my small groups.  Granted, this homework is to read the nove...

We are almost done with The Lightning Thief as a grade level, which means my small groups will be starting The Sea of Monsters in January!  ...

On more than one occasion this year, I've had my students pinky-promise not to read ahead on novels or see the movie before we're do...

I just finished making a 35 page character sort for Rick Riordian's Percy Jackson series. I made this sort for all 5 novels with an ...

I love small group reading :) I feel like I'm a literacy specialist since so much of my day is spent with literacy: 9-9:40: phonics,...

When I first entered my classroom five years ago, the place was a disorganized mess.  One of the few things I kept from the previous inhab...