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Let Pete the Cat inspire students to keep going as writers. 

This lesson will help readers and writers understand and clarify which character is speaking. 

An organized, efficient, inviting classroom library is a beautiful thing. 

This amazing tip makes it easy for students to monitor the volume of their voices. 

Here is one quick and easy way to provide another seating option for students. 

20 non-fiction titles that you might consider adding to your classroom library.

20 titles that you might consider adding to your classroom library.

20 titles you may want for the burgeoning bookworms in your room.

Download this seasonal dice game that strengthens number sense while incorporating fun.

Providing limited choice may help some students be successful. 

Try this fun party game that is really just a cleverly disguised math activity.

Our favorite read aloud becomes an end-of-the-year gift, and a letter for parents with the same theme celebrates the miraculous journey of first grade.

Lori Sabo shares a strategy that helped eliminate the last vestiges of bumpiness at the start of her Daily 5 rounds. 

This poster provides a powerful image for students regarding the benefits of reading just 20 minutes a night.

This simple lesson will help our youngest learners elevate their level of writing by adding details.

This tool will help students transition from using a finger to tracking with their eyes only.

Try a different letter sound is a simple, but powerful accuracy strategy. Here's what it sounded like in a one-on-one conference with a second grader.

Since there's no such thing as canker research, it's Flip the Sound to the rescue!

These questions will lead to a meaningful, instructional conference, whether we've read the book or not.

These three simple considerations will help you decide what is and isn't still worthy of being in your classroom library. 

Take a look at these ideas to inspire a spirit of play in our young writers. 

Poetry isn't just for poetry month. Here are poems for every age that will serve as inspiration, information, entertainment, and mentor texts. 

Want your classroom library to be the heart of your room? These six steps will help. 

Chill out in summer or warm up in winter with one of these summer-themed titles.

You might want to curl up with one of these titles this winter, too.

Five book recommendations to elevate student reading and writing.

It's poetry month! One way to celebrate is with novels in verse.

Take a look at our summer reading stacks.

Breaking big words into smaller chunks is a great strategy for all our readers. Here's what it looked like in this classroom.

Here is a quick and fun activity to practice and reinforce the concepts of compare and contrast.

Numbers with more than three digits are much easier to read with commas. This is a fun way to help kids know where to put them.

Chandra Reiners and her sixth-grade students are falling in love with their word wall words.

Lori Sabo shares the form her kids use to assess the contents of their book boxes.  

Discover two simple ways to get items you need for your classroom.

When all the adults in the school share their reading lives, it sends a strong message to students.

If your students use composition notebooks for writing, here is a clever idea that keeps a pen or pencil handy. 

We are all about choice, so we love that there are a variety of ways in which students can choose to expand their vocabulary.

Ever wish you could peek at our desks and nightstands to see what we are reading? Wish granted. 

Research on the importance of readability has made us rethink the old five-finger rule. 

Help children understand that fluency is more about comprehension, phrasing, and expression than speed. 

Take a peek at what has recently captured our interest. 

Take a peek at what has recently captured our interest. 

Take a look at our summer reading stacks.

There are some titles in our book stacks that you are going to want to add to your own! 

Try this easy way to prepare your classroom library for a new school year before summer even begins. 

We feel sure that one or more of the books we are reading will be a perfect fit for you, too, this summer.

Discover 5 ways to show that you truly value reading and books. 

This math fact game is easy to understand and is great for practicing independence.

We appreciate and value our classroom volunteers and rely on them for a vast number of things.

These eight ideas will help keep interest high until the last bell of the school year rings.

The beauty of the I-PICK method is that students can find a good-fit book wherever they are without being shackled to a colored dot or number.

Our contributing librarian shares 10 of her favorite snow stories.

Plan your March read alouds with books written by authors born in March!

Plan ahead for January, and consider these titles for your read-alouds! 

15 titles to consider for thinking about, talking about, and just soaking in kindness.

December will be here before we know it! Plan ahead, and consider these titles for your read-alouds! 

November will be here before we know it! Plan ahead, and consider these titles for your read-alouds! 

October will be here before we know it! Plan ahead, and consider these titles for your read-alouds! 

Planning for September? Consider these titles for your read-alouds! 

A peaceful signal is one of the most effective ways to ensure calm transitions throughout the day.

Celebrate authors born in July by introducing or revisiting their contributions!

Celebrate authors born in June by introducing or revisiting their contributions!

Celebrate the May births of 20 authors with titles your students will love.

Try this fun way to explore how authors begin a story and inspire the writers in your room to vary their own work. 

Celebrate the April births of sixteen authors with titles your students will love.

Discover why this is such a deeply held value. 

Here is a simple way to raise engagement and quickly assess the status of the class during group instruction.

This object lesson and a little math will make all the difference.

Want research that shows we have to get students reading? You'll find it here. 

This poem is rich with meaning, things to talk about, and is a wonderful introduction to personification.

Discover two books that usually inspire students to produce a blitz of acrostic poetry.

This one-on-one conference pays particular attention to cause and effect.

In alphabetical order, my favorite non-fiction books from this year.

This easy and accessible tool helps inspire writers and enrich vocabulary.

Get the wiggles out with free research-based brain break activities. 

Need a great game for developing number sense, fact fluency, and strategic thinking? Check out Canoga.

Are you making time for the magic?

From the deepest ocean to a planet in our solar system, we are sure there is a true story here that will ignite the hearts and minds of your students.

Come inside and cool off with one of these 12 summer-themed titles.

Lori Sabo shares five books that may help us cultivate kindness in our classrooms. 

Lori shares funny books that will keep kids laughing from preschool through middle school. 

There are some titles in our book stacks that you are going to want to add to your own! 

A few times a month, Bob Johnson's fifth graders do a book talk to promote what they are reading. They call it Book Share and it is a favorite of everyone in the class.

Karen Roberts is a master at scaffolding for her young learners. Here is how she supports young writers as they write informational stories.

Suzi's class listens intently to the read aloud so they'll be prepared to show their comprehension by performing these creative representations.

This video accompanies the I See You Tip of the Week by Lori Sabo.

Here are three ideas to get your students going with their reading response journals.

Here is a positive way to help students get back on track when their behavior gets a little bumpy.  

This simple technique keeps everyone ready to tune in to interesting words and helps promote the idea that it really is fun to expand our vocabularies.

Here are a couple of ideas for student research reports.

One way to share good-fit books is to show how our own reading material fits each I-PICK criterion. 

Here are our thoughts on this current debate. 

Trish Prentice records her reflections on teaching Daily 5 during the first weeks of school, and lets us in on the adventure.  

This idea is easy to set up and will help promote positivity and continued learning when you are absent.

Laughing is beneficial. Get ten ideas to add it to your classroom.