I am just like you.  Every year, just about this time, my sixth grade students and I start the long arduous process of going over the Califo...

If you are reading The Westing Game  or any other book with a large number of characters to keep track of, a large, wall-sized character cha...

So I see about 100 kids each day for Reading.  There are three groups, reading three different books.  Every week they are assigned chapters...

Hello Everyone, I have just added my Tuck Everlasting  book unit to my TeachersPayTeachers Site ! I have posted a lot of fun stuff he...

I realize that students need a constant reminder about the expectations for short answer questions.  At my school, we have all adopted the R...

I have already read The Westing Game  with one of my reading groups and I am about to start it again with another group.  My students do all...

Two of my reading groups finished their novels just before the break.  The first group finished Tuck Everlasting  by Natalie Babbit and the ...

So on top of working with visual notetaking, the kids are always preparing for their weekly novel quizzes.  This week was Tuck Everlasting  ...

I have a few of my book units on TeachersPayTeachers and I have had a few people ask how I have the kids do vocabulary every week for the ch...

Today we are studying for our persuasive techniques quiz tomorrow.  After they have taken notes during the week, I like to have the kids stu...

So, I have been thinking about reintroducing the learning menu to my 6th grade class.  I am trying a small scale menu for figurative languag...

This week we took notes on making inferences in our reading notebooks.  After taking notes, we practiced using an advance organizer that inc...

We have been working on wanted posters for The Westing Game  by Ellen Raskin with one of my reading groups.  They are perfect for this book ...