This February, I wrote about how schools inhibit our students’ capacity to think creatively. Soon after, my coworker Kira sent me an email expressing her fear that the common-core literacy standards ...

Students learn important nonfiction text features & how to use them to read nonfiction. In this lesson, students learn important nonfiction text features and how to use them to read nonfiction books.

The common standards expect students to become adept at reading informational text, a shift in focus that many English/language arts teachers fear might diminish the time-honored place of literature ...

Students will identify and use nonfiction text features. In this lesson, students will identify and use nonfiction text features. Mrs. Wright will read the book, Extreme Sports by John Crossingham & ...

Looking for a simple way to help your kids reinforce their knowledge banks in the era of STAAR, the state's new, more rigorous standardized testing system? Encourage them to do more recreational ...

This is a 2 credit hour, 2 contact hour, just-in-time remediation course which will have, as its corequisite, English 1101, thus fulfilling national-, state-, and System-wide mandates. The course will ...

Synopsis: Author shares her childhood diaries, chronicling her experiences as an 11-year-old with an eating disorder. Sources: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, American Library Association, Robert F.