What will you do to prevent "summer slide" in your student's reading?   It is a well-accepted fact that if students do not read over summer vacation their reading level and reading skills will "slide" backward.  Read on for great ideas on how to keep your students reading this summer. Websites Looking for books to [...]

The Common Core Standards will be here before our students are ready unless we begin preparing them now.  Using more nonfiction materials and teaching students how to read them are great first steps.   Lori Oczkus in her April 2012 column for IRA titled “Navigating Nonfiction: Guidelines and TOP 5 Strategies for Helping Kids Comprehend Informational [...]

How will you celebrate Missouri Read-In Day on March 9, 2012?  Join fellow Missourians across the state as we celebrate reading and work to build a life-long love of reading in our students.  Read on for great ideas to celebrate Missouri Read-In Day.   It should be the teacher’s aim to give every child a love of reading, [...]

Did you make a New Year's resolution? The teaching profession is unique as we celebrate a new year twice every year. Twice every year we have the opportunity for a fresh start. Obviously, one time in is August. But, we also have that opportunity when we begin a new semester in January. We reveiw assessment data from the [...]

Written by Tammy Rhomberg   The Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award will be presented on January 19, 2012 at the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD) international conference in Miami Beach, Florida. The intermediate/young adult award will be presented to Kathryn Erskine, author of Mocking Bird and Beverley Brenna, author [...]