Read Side By Side - Blog | Sarah Collinge

Why Readers Make the Best Writers

"Read everyday. I mean it: EVERY DAY!"

Sometimes it seems like 10 years passes in the blink of an eye! In belated celebration of the first...

Encouraging children to foster a love of books and reading at an early age is an excellent way to...

The Read Side by Side Reading Program, a curriculum for teaching reading in grades 3-6, is designed...

At the roots, an assessment is an inference about a child’s progress based on the collected samples...

Printable books, online articles, e-books, and audio books are wonderful resources to support...

Learning loss during COVID closures have caused many to wonder, “Will students fall behind in...

As teachers move from the classroom to the cloud, I am fielding a lot of questions related to...

Publishers, organizations, and non-profits have provided a wealth of materials, links, software,...

My daughters’ school district launched online learning last week, only to be shut down by the state...

Are you reviewing the student books in the Read Side by Side Reading Program? All texts in the...

Everyone has that genre that they avoid. For most of my life, it was the genre nonfiction. Maybe I...

For years I have used running records in my classroom, both formally and informally. These...

How does a child know that he or she has become a good reader? When you talk to children about...

How do you get your students to talk during book club discussions? Sarah Collinge, author of the C....

Setting up the classroom library can be a daunting process. How do you organize books? Do you focus...

Earlier this month, Bethany and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Macau near Hong Kong to...

This is the time of year when teachers start to feel anxious about reading test prep for the...

I love summer for SO many reasons, but maybe the best part of summer for my kids and I is SUMMER...