I am excited to once again be participating in this month's Bright Ideas blog linky! I am most excited that so many of us bloggers are able to give you tons of FREE ideas and tips that you can easily use in your classroom. This bright idea post will focus on using Wordle. Wordle is basically a ... Read More about Bright Ideas: Wordle as a Bucket Filler

Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. It's a time for new beginnings, a time to get past the standardized tests, and a time to wind down the school year (unless you are unfortunate and your school year goes through June). So, if you haven't tried out Close Reads yet. maybe now is the time ... Read More about Close Read Linky Party #4: Student-Led Discourse

I hope that after reading my last 2 posts about Close Reads (you can check them out here and here), or my initial post on ATUE that you can check out here, you are excited to implement Close Reads in your classroom. Last year when Close Reads was new to my colleagues and myself, we found ... Read More about So You Decided to Give Close Reads a Try….Now What?