SunnyDaze Teaching Blog

These books aren't simply teacher recommended.  It's not a curriculum company's reading list.  These are books that learners begged to have just one more chapter, please! 

Kids are natural-born persuaders! As long as they can write a decently well-formed paragraph, teaching persuasive writing can be easy-peasy.  There are a couple of acronyms that I find to be helpful...

Graphic Novels, to read or not to read, that is the question! Teachers and parents often question if they should consider reading graphic novels as reading? Over the last decade,...

Finding your students’ heads in the clouds a little more often? Looking for engaging lessons that might be a little outside the box? Well, no need to search for a...

When it is writing time, do your kiddos complain that they can't think of anything to write about?  Let me solve this problem for you right now.  Roll-a-Story!  This roll...

Have you struggled to find engaging non-fiction reading options for your upper elementary learners?  It can be hard to find informational text passages that students actually want to read. Well,...