An enthusiastic child excitedly explains his writing to another student during writing workshop... S: I had a dream I was going to Saturn....

I have been rereading the book Kidwatching: Documenting Children's Literacy Development by Gretchen Owocki and Yetta Goodman in preparat...

At the start of this school year (just last week) we asked our students what they hoped to learn in first grade. We gave them a sheet of lin...

The cover of New York magazine reads "9/11 One Day, Ten Years" superimposed over an image of smoke from the World Trade Center af...

There has been quite a bit of love coming at FYB lately and I want to say thanks to several bloggers who have been especially kind. Today ...