Carol's Corner

I love being a CYBILS judge, because I always learn new things. This year, for example, I learned about Toyasoburo (Fred) Korematsu, an A...

It's been over a month since I last blogged. I've returned to the classroom after more than a decade of literacy coaching, administr...

I am a Christian. A Jesus-loving, Bible reading, hard-praying Christian. I don't talk about it a lot on my blog, well, because this blog...

Earlier this week, I got together with one of my all time favorite literacy all stars (and one of my most bestest friends), Laura Benson. W...

Someday, I will teach a high school history class. I won't teach it using the boring, tedious, fact-packed history text that my sons ar...

WARNING: This post may be offensive to some people. It doesn't represent the views of anyone but me. It's the eve of MLK Day. I know...

The year is 1955. The Supreme Court has ruled against segregation and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to start sixth grade at T....

I vaguely remember reading CATCHER IN THE RYE when I was in high school, but I didn't remember much about it, so when Z had to read it ...

How did I miss this one?????  ACROSS THE ALLEY is not a new picture book, it was actually published in 2006, but I'd never heard of it u...

The summer before sixth grade, Alice Ann Moxley and her family move from Chicago to Mississippi. It is 1964, the schools are about to be int...