I'm sure you'll get lots of great suggestions for transitioning into book
clubs, so I'm writing with a different message--sometimes it's okay to lose
control. I have the experience often in my (4th and 5th grade) classroom that
I give kids a lot of freedom, and 5-10 minutes into it I think it's
One Read Across America activity I like to do with students to integrate in
some geography is to have students (I have 4th and 5th graders) look through
books they've read and other books in the classroom and mark their settings on
a map (when I've done this in the past I've had one map of the U
My K-5 school just did a One School, One Book program this year for the
first time. We ended up using the book A Cricket in Times Square by
George Seldon and loved it. (We decided to go with a classic because we
wanted to be really sure no parents would complain about the subject
matter the firs
I hope this doesn't count as straying too far off the topic of reading
comprehension. I just wanted to share the title of a nonfiction book that is
written very much in the style of academic essays: Chameleons are Cool by
Martin Jenkins. I love it because it is so very much in the style of t
