Carol's Corner

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

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...

This has been a hard, hard week. Our third graders took the state reading test, and it was, as always, very, very tough. Because I an interv...

I keep reading about all the snow back East and longing for one good dumper storm for Colorado. We haven't had much snow at all this win...

Summer is just around the corner. The boys want to go to at least three football camps each. There will be combines. They will need new cle...

Spring, 1980. I am a junior at the University of Colorado and take a reading methods class from Dr. Donald Carline. Carline is a past presid...

Friday. Poetry Friday. The fifth grade teachers want me to continue thinking with the kids about the purposes for poetry. They want me to ta...