The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

Students read The Summer My Father Was Ten by Pat Brisson and discuss the father's actions and the consequences that followed. In small groups, students make and share text-to-self connections of when they were caught up in the moment...

How can you help your child succeed in school? This article offers some important tips to making success a reality for every student. This is a terrific resource to pass along to parents.

In this unit from Hubbard's Cupboard, an elementary class will read several books together, each having a strong connection to the next. There are ideas for cross-curricular lessons, so this could be a site that shapes the next several...