Carol's Corner

Here's a book for writers' workshop. Or storyteller's workshop. Or to add to your basket on bullying. Or just to read aloud, b...

"So what do you think we should do tomorrow?" the fourth grade teacher asks as we consider the next day's writing workshop. He...

On Friday, Mary Lee had an amazing post about thinking out of the box. If you haven't read it, hop right over to Year of Reading and do...

*WITH HUGE APOLOGIES TO ONE OF MY FAVORITE PUBLISHERS! Tom Newkirk used to talk about the Heinemann classroom. You know, one of those classr...

I collect books about words and language play. This week, while browsing at the LIBRARY (I really am trying to curtail my book buying a litt...

Teachers at my school have focused on writing this year, and our hard work is beginning to show. Students are demonstrating more focus, spec...