I love picture books. I have to make myself get books from the library instead of purchase every book I like. (I have this problem with a...

"Why Play Pretend When We're Building Readers?" "When children play pretend, they are making this same cerebral leap...

Do you have things that you have made or used and then, for some reason, don't bring back for a while? A few years ago I made a homemade...

A while back (actually a long while back), I wrote that our small white boards are one of my favorite things to use in the classroom. In re...

I know I've been blogging a lot about literacy play recently. But I've been seeing a lot of it happening in my church kindergarten...

I love to incorporate different types of literacy play in the classroom. We often have opportunities to read and write in different ways. T...

I think that play is the best way for kids to explore, discover, and learn. Sometimes we forget that literacy can be play, too. Or that the ...

A new first grade friend came out of his room to work with me, practicing his reading. He looked anything but excited. He looked downright s...

My reading clinic friend reminded me of something recently. We were reading a book and he read through it really well, reading or figuring...

When I was in elementary school (right after dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth), I loved to go to the library. I loved searching through...

A few years ago I posted about a school that took out all the play kitchens because those things didn't support literacy. Something tha...

I love dry erase boards and markers. I've used them with different ages and for different purposes. In my church kindergarten class, ...

Today I'm participating in Picture Book 10 for 10. This is a list of 10 of my favorite picture books. I chose these particular 10 b...

One way to add literacy to the blocks center and to encourage different kinds of play is to add logos to the blocks center. For this pa...

One of my favorite places to find materials (and repurpose them) is the office supply store or office supply area of a discount store. I lov...

I've blogged before about how much we love colored masking tape and how we use it for all kinds of things. Recently my class has used t...