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Gresham Brown, a fourth-grade teacher in Greenville, South Carolina, has written guest posts on the Stenhouse Blog about starting classroom blogs and about getting parents involved with blogs. This time, he shares his ideas about what to do with that classroom blog during summer recess...

In Kelly Gallagher’s high school English classroom in Anaheim, California, students not only turn to books and magazines for models of effective writing, they also turn to each other. Kelly uses Read-Around Groups or RAGs where students read and evaluate their classmates’ work...

First, a poetry contest: Write and submit a poem about your teaching life and we will feature you in our upcoming Poetry Friday posts. The best five poems, selected by Stenhouse editor Bill Varner, our regular Poetry Friday poem picker, will win a free Stenhouse book...

In his new book, What Student Writing Teaches Us: Formative Assessment in the Writing Workshop, Mark Overmeyer discusses how a writing prompt that might seem limiting actually helps students focus their writing...

You can still ask questions and post comments about Mark Overmeyer’s new book, What Student Writing Teaches Us: Formative Assessment in the Writing Workshop...

In Growing Readers, author Kathy Collins helps teachers lay a foundation on which children can build rich and purposeful reading lives. But to be able to support that foundation, Kathy says that teachers have to continually learn about themselves and about their students...

The group of teachers at Riverside Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio wrapped up their book study for the year, but not before sending along reflections from three teachers about how they implemented some of the strategies and ideas...

Herb Broda, author of Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning, has been traveling the country for the past couple of months, visiting schools and documenting the creative ways teachers extend their classrooms into the outdoors...

Here is a poem to celebrate Father’s Day this weekend by Walt Whitman. On the Beach at Night by Walt Whitman On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky...

We’ve been bringing you Quick Tips for six months now, covering topics from the basics of Socratic Circles, to bringing tweens back to reading, to finding your storytelling voice...

I noticed a post on A Year of Reading by Mary Lee Hahn, author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud, about a charity fishing event...

Herb Broda, author of Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning, has been documenting his travels during his sabbatical this spring. In previous posts he reported about a school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Columbus, Ohio. This week he shares what he saw at Granny’s Garden School near Cincinnati, Ohio...

In Reality Checks: Teaching Reading Comprehension with Nonfiction, K-5, author Tony Stead outlines practical approaches to ensure that all children can become confident and competent readers of nonfiction...

Read Mark Overmeyer’s new book online before it is published in mid-July and then join Mark and your fellow teachers in discussing this new, exciting title during a four-stop blog tour. Participate in our writing contest and win a free, signed copy of the book...

School is out, or will be soon in most of the country. This is a great time to get kids hooked on some great summer reads. Teri Lesesne, author of Naked Reading and Making the Match, offers some suggestions that will make for some magical — and educational — summer reading for all kids...

Aimee Buckner, author of Notebook Know-How and Notebook Connections will hold a free webinar Thursday, June 11, at 2 p.m. EST. All you need to participate is a phone and a computer...

It’s summer and we at Stenhouse know that somewhere in your backpack or beach bag, most of you will be carrying a Stenhouse book to the beach, the local pool, or to your own backyard along with your summer reading guilty pleasures...

This week’s tip is not so much a tip as a story about when teaching goes wrong, when teachers struggle, when the best laid plans in the classroom go horribly wrong...

This week’s poems come from our editor Bill Varner’s daughter, Olivia. This week my daughter Olivia, a newly minted ten-year-old and fourth grader, missed Author and Artist night at her school because she was sick. She wasn’t the only one who was disappointed...

Our editors are working on some exciting new titles for the summer and fall...

Essays provide an opportunity for students to debate what is fact and what is fiction,” writes Kimberly Hill Campbell in her book, Less Is More: Teaching Literature with Shorts Texts, Grades 6-12...

It is college — and pretty soon high school — graduation season. This week’s selection is one of those poems that captures just a bit of wisdom about life for graduates and for the rest of us. What I Know About Epistemology by John Surowiecki As the light goes, go...

In the third installment of our Questions & Authors series with the authors of TeamWork: Setting the Standard for Collaborative Teaching, Grades 5-9, Kathryn Edmonds shares some strategies for getting parents involved in the life of a classroom...

In Becoming One Community, authors Kathleen Fay and Suzanne Whaley provide guidance for teachers whose classrooms include children who are just learning English...

“School situations should mirror what’s happening in the real world, and kids should be writing real-world stuff–they shouldn’t just be writing for their teachers…nonfiction opens up that range of possibilities.” We recorded our latest Author Conversations podcast with Lynne Dorfman and...

Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli use My Many Colored Days, Color Me a Rhyme, and My World of Color, along with other poetry books to help their students think about and make connections to colors in their own poetry...

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This week’s Quick Tip comes from Max Brand and Gayle Brand, authors of Practical Fluency: Classroom Persepectives, Grades K-6...

Former students, colleagues, and friends gathered recently for a book signing event to celebrate Johanna Riddle’s book, Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classroom...