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My husband actually found this app for me as a means to get me salivating for the iPhone G3.  He's been pulling for it for awhile and trying to convince us to switch our plans to make it happen, so ...

OK, don't tell my husband, but I have a fictional crush.  That is, I have a crush based on a fictitious character.  I think I've always had one, but the object of my literary love has always changed with my ...

Know a teacher who got a pink slip?  Maybe my newest post at Teacher Magazine can help.  Click here for the article. It's Step 1 of my Top Secret New Teacher Handbook.  Hope it creates some shortcuts, a machete even, through ...

I have an article in the new March/April issue of Imagine Magazine, put out by Johns Hopkins.  It's a beautiful magazine, whose audience is gifted middle schoolers.  It's always a pleasure to write for a middle school audience.  I can see ...

I believe a classroom library is the heartbeat of a teacher's environment.  It is the window into their own personality, and it reflects the importance of literacy in the classroom.  I believe every teacher, no matter the subject taught, should ...

All hail the mighty Neil Gaiman!  I can’t say that I actually called it, but I did recommend The Graveyard Book, did I not?   Yes, it seems The Sandman himself has gone and won the Newbery Award.  So congrats from ...

Kids killin' kids for TV viewing pleasure? Great tween reading fun! I just finished The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins . It took me awhile to get a hold of it because the minute I brought it into my classroom library, ...

So I just finished reading Neal Shusterman's The Schwa Was Here.  I know, I know.  For all you librarians out there, you're probably saying: "What?  It took you THIS long to read it?  Jeesh, what kind of tweenteacher are you?"  ...

You know when you enjoy a book so much you begin to slow down towards the end just to make the sweetness last?  Well, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is one of those.  NG writes with a rhythm in his ...

Every year, I do this activity when teaching Narrative Plot.  I've used it from 3rd grade to 12th grade.  I learned a version of it first in 1993 at a UCLA Extension class on "Teaching Reading to Secondary Students" and ...