I was tickled to learn the work "abecedary" recently. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abecedary Even more ticklis...

Wear the Cape proudly welcomes our first guest blogger!  Jeni Cass is caped teacher from a charter school in San Diego. Jeni truly does wear...

Last week I talked about using UPPERCASE Magazine and their focus on "sticky things" as mentor texts . I also alluded to the fact ...

UPPERCASE Magazine, Issue No. 18, "Cut it Out" is all about collage. Yup.  you read that correctly, collage. It's a beautful m...

For my first #113texts Mentor Text Challenge post, I am going out on a limb, out of the box, out of... something. This isn't a typica...