Since I have the upper half of the grade level for small group reading, I focus on word work rather than phonemic awareness.  My students ar...

It's Monday and my to grade pile is looming at a good three inches high.  We had our first unit test for reading last week and well at ...

My students did a great job with helping verbs yesterday: Today's mini-lesson of linking verbs didn't go as great as I wanted, ...

One of our fifth grade standards is working with the three types of verbs: action, helping and linking.  Obviously this is too much for a si...

As a teacher, I think teaching writing is my weakness. I'm constantly in awe of my former co-teacher who is now in the general ed cla...