Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

Students in dozens of middle schools around the country huddled around classroom TVs on Thursday – notebooks in hand – ready for their December lesson. Only this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill English ...

Elementary guidance counselor Brigette Largey is visiting classrooms to teach a lesson on kindness. Reading the book “Each Kindness” by Jacqueline Woodson. The book tells the story of a new student, ...

As young children return to the classroom, they may experience a range of emotions, including happiness, excitement and curiosity – as well as nervousness and uncertainty. And this back-to-school ...