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

Humans are hard-wired to appreciate stories, and there is a huge diversity of stories geared toward upper elementary and middle school students. However, interest in reading and learning often ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...

Lima schools Superintendent Andre Rudolph paused from a dramatic reading of “The Book Thief,” a fictional novel about a young ...

Last Wednesday, 11-year-old Geniya sat in a corner of the library at Ockley Green Middle School in North Portland, where she’ll be a sixth grader this fall, intently concentrating on spelling the word ...