I am linking up a day early with 4th Grade Frolics for my favorite weekly linky! After this week is it turning into a monthly linky for th...

I just finished creating my next novel unit pack.  This is a 36 page novel guide for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.  My stu...

I am excited about a new product that I just finished.   The Common Core standards focus on students’ ability to read closely to determine...

Last week after a lesson on inferences I asked my students why they thought we were learning this skill.   Their answers included, “So we c...

It’s that time of the week again.   Monday Funday with Maniac Mondays.   I look forward to this every week.   There are so many talented...

We just finished reading Superfudge , by Judy Blume. My students loved this book. It is packed full of humor and is a pretty easy read. Som...

As we are transitioning into the Common Core Curriculum, we are concentrating more on non-fiction text. In addition to our anthology and no...

Happy Hump Day! Well, we’re more than half way through this week. I hope your week is flying by as fast as mine. Every year seems to go by ...

This is an activity that focuses on character traits. A situation is given and students have to identify which character trait is displaye...