Understanding informational text is such a big part of Common Core. My kids usually choose a informational text over fiction when they visi...

Thanks to everyone for the positive response to my series of posts on activities for the text exemplars for Common Core for second and thir...

 I hope you've liked my series on the text exemplars for second and third grade Common Core so far. I have found most of the titles on ...

It seems funny to be posting pictures of snowflakes in July! Here is another activity based on a text exemplar for second and third grade...

Common Core Standards include a list of text exemplars for grade clusters. Here are two activities for The Fire Cat , by Esther Averill, li...