We're in the middle of our back to school planning session and quite frankly, I'm really excited about next year.  It's been a w...

I'm pleased to announce my teacher guide for The House of Hades is now available here ! I've been working on this novel for a ...

My day of frustrating them didn't end with math. Later in the day, we went over sorts.  They did "no way Jose and that's a fa...

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a concept some of my students struggle with.  Often times they would claim a statement is a fa...

When I was younger, I was obsessed with Ancient Egypt.  From mummies to scarabs to Nefertiti, I simply couldn't get enough.  I was giddy...

I'm pleased to announce some new chronological order sorts are available on TpT!  (I now have 120 posted products, all of which have bee...

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

While it was a tad time consuming to create, one of my students' favorite centers is my text features sort.  I cut up a few copies of an...

I'm pleased to announce that chronological order sorts are now up for all 5 of the Percy Jackson series on TpT!  Answer keys are includ...

So we read 90% of The Lightning Thief before winter break and watched the film adaptation on the last day of school for the calendar year. ...

A chronological order sorts for Lois Ruby's Steal Away Home is  now available on TpT !   The sort is 18 pages long with an include...

For my intervention part of the day, we've been working on multiplication. I had students work on two different stations while I pu...

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!  ...

I'm in the process of reformatting some centers based on my students' feedback and they should be available on TpT by the end of the...

I've just posted another chronological order sort to my TpT page!  This is product # 84 :) This one is for Kate DiCamillo's novel ...

I've been re-reading The Series of Unfortunate Events because three of my twelve groups are on those novels.  Two groups have read the  ...

I'm pleased to announce that two more centers have joined my classroom and TpT store ! Both are chronological order sorts, one based o...

We are in the middle of the Lightning Thief, so I had my students complete one of our sorts: They aren't done with the novel so th...

We spent last week and this upcoming week working on text structures with our students. We used this great resource from FCRR.org on t...

My students were working on the Harry Potter sort: Since I made the sort for all the novels, I included an "I'm not sure yet...