PROJECT MAYHEM

Writers, teachers, and parents know that the way to get kids excited about reading and learning is to make reading and learning fun. Thi...

What's the best way to learn? It depends on each individual's optimal learning style. Some of us do well with printed materi...

I’ve been sharing stories of My Adventures in Publishing with my fifth grade classes ever since my first book was published – well, ev...

In a recent post, I discussed the idea of the chain story activity . If you missed it, feel free to go back and give it a read. Here is the ...

One thing I do occasionally in the classroom is chain writing, which asks different writers to write different sentences, or paragraphs,...

Now that I’m back at the day job (teaching junior high ELA), I find myself looking at books through my teacher lens, and not my writer lens...