Free for all from Choice Literacy:
Here are two features from the archives with creative ideas for using short nonfiction texts.
Mary Lee Hahn has advice for Making the Most of Short Texts:
http://www.choiceliteracy.com/articles-detail-view.php?id=1920
In Sticky Little Invention, Jill Ostrow encourages student responses that will fit only on a post-it, with powerful results:
http://www.choiceliteracy.com/articles-detail-view.php?id=1207
School days in November are short yet plentiful. A month when teachers conference with families of students to share progress. NJ Teacher's Convention provides time to learn with colleagues who often become 'work families' and then the month ends with the Thanksgiving holiday. November is often a month when we are all reminded to be grateful for all that is good in life- and give thanks.