Greet students at the door in the morning. Nothing says you are happy to see them like a big smile and greeting as they walk in.

Students designed these labels for the classroom library.

This amazing tip makes it easy for students to monitor the volume of their voices. 

Discover a few ideas that might help develop that intrinsic desire in students to select good-fit books.

Freshen Up Your Classroom with Free Nameplates!

Download a printable checklist to use at your back to school night!

Try this idea to add more kindness to your classrooms!

Download these checkmarks to support your students with the comprehension strategy Check for Understanding.

Many students love to have a goal of how many books they will read in a year. If they choose this goal, print out one of these trackers to help them! 

The purpose of formative assessment is to monitor and enhance student learning.  This Post-it Note Parking Lot is a simple and efficient formative assessment.

Lori Sabo shares the form her kids use to assess the contents of their book boxes.  

These 10 questions lead to deeper comprehension when revisiting books.

Discover two simple ways to get items you need for your classroom.

If your students use composition notebooks for writing, here is a clever idea that keeps a pen or pencil handy. 

Here are some ways that the efficient use of time is built into Independent and Collaborative Learning.

Try this easy way to prepare your classroom library for a new school year before summer even begins. 

Here are three suggestions to help you enhance fluency practice in your classroom.

This lesson will help readers and writers understand and clarify which character is speaking. 

What do they look like? Answers inside.

Check out this fun technique to help children find an interesting book!

This object lesson and a little math will make all the difference.

Pick and choose the ideas that work best for you, and help create lifelong readers.

Ellen shares how she encourages and fosters mental math, and what she learns about students in the process. 

For advanced readers, applying this principle is an excellent way to bring in deeper analysis of text.

Discover how popular cultural topics can lead to engaging literacy connections for our students. 

How can we get students to try old classics that we know they'll love? 

Check out this book club in which students are reading self-selected books from the same series. 

Before relying on gifted students as a peer tutor or teacher, consider this.

This simple idea is a powerful way to keep our gifted students engaged mentally and socially. 

"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." This approach broadens reading horizons, honors choice and factors in good-fit books. Here are a few ways to expand students' reading repertoires in the sports zone.

Rarely does a year go by without us having at least one of these students in class. Here's our top tip for helping them become a voracious reader.

Lori Sabo brings weights to class to demonstrate choosing good-fit books with her students.

Getting hands into the books of little ones is one of the most important things we can do. 

Here is a simple and powerful way to foster meaningful sharing during math time.

Review I PICK with this reader's theatre script.

Here are three ideas to get your students going with their reading response journals.

Just because a student doesn't do well on a fluency test doesn't necessarily mean there is a big problem.  Here are three things we consider.

Take me to a place sends the reader back into the text to find evidence to support his/her thinking.

Here are three great strategies for helping Read to Someone partners get started right away  instead of wasting time deciding who gets to read first.

Here's a classroom hack that makes labeling shelves a cinch. 

A variety of text formats will help increase engagement and cement strategy instruction. 

This idea is easy to set up and will help promote positivity and continued learning when you are absent.