One of my favorite things about the teaching-blogging world that I've discovered during these months in which I have become involved is ...

As promised, for this Friday's Favorite Find post, we will be doing one of my favorite things!  Considering that "Testing Season...

It seems strange to be creating and posting these free bookmarks today, as the county where I live in Upstate New York is under a Winter Sto...

Happy St. Patty's weekend!  Besides the facts that I love weekends, the color green, corned beef and cabbage with a nice pint of Guinnes...

My Friday has been exceptionally nice here this week!  We had a little bit of snow on the ground when we went to bed last night...and lo and...

TGIF!  Seriously.  Just one of those weeks where I'm glad to have a chance to reflect and share with you some favorite things to remind ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled Puzzle Me This...Prefixes  that had some great response.  Many people asked if I would be making any m...

In the 14 years that I've been teaching, I've seen a real shift in the philosophy of English Education.  When I started, whole lan...

Let's hear it for some Parts of Speech-love for Valentine's themed review! (Click on link to download Google Doc.) Your...

It's that time once again...Friday is here and there's much to celebrate!  (I'm hearing Kool and the Gang in my head right now.....

Thank you so much to all of you who participated in my very first giveaway here on Middle School Matters Blog.   Congratulations to Tina C...

(Sorry about all of the exclamation points...I'm just super excited about this! :-) ) So I just noticed that Teachers Pay Teachers has...

I'm SO happy to share my newest FREEBIE with you!  I so love games and puzzles.  I know that my students do, too.  The challenge of solv...

Some of us are just getting back into the routines of our school days this week.  Some of us will be headed back from our holiday breaks thi...