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You: The Story—A Journey into Narrative Writing with Ruta Sepetys
New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys chats with Stephanie Nugent about how to use her new book Unveiling You: The Story to help your...
Whether teaching literature or rhetoric, close reading is an essential and often difficult skill to teach. This note-taking system, which is a modification of the Cornell note system, helps students slow down and examine a text closely through a structured approach that requires them to summarize details and analyze meaning through the inclusion of purpose statements.
Interview with a Character (ELA Activity)
There are so many more interesting methods to writing a character analysis than writing an analysis paragraph. Oftentimes, English or language arts...
Getting Nothing for Someone
Just last week, my oldest son asked me what I wanted for Christmas. My answer? Nothing.
Interactive Plot Map
Carmel McDonald walks you through how she walks her middle school ELA students through narrative structure with an interactive plot map. Download her...
#Neveragain—No, Really
From San Antonio, you take I-35 S until you hit Hwy. 90W just outside of the city limits. You’ll then hit Castroville, which everyone pronounces...
Real to Reel: Textual Evidence
Code-switching is changing something about yourself to fit a certain situation or audience. The way you might talk to your friends versus talking to...
Celebrating Women Storytellers
Join us for a conversation in honor of Women's History Month in partnership with Simon & Schuster with authors Alicia D. Williams, Priyanka Taslim,...
Rock Star Poets
The “Greatest Hits” album. All the greats do it—Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty, Elton John, Madonna, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mariah Carey—so it only...
10 YA Reads for Summer
I just finished my tenth year teaching high school English and let me tell you, teens like to read… well, most of them. Some of you might be doubting...
Myth with a Side of Mashed Potatoes
Like most kids ushered though elementary school in the days when the Charlie Brown holiday specials aired on television once a year and if you missed...
Women’s History Month: Fighting Words
In Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s Fighting Words, 10-year-old protagonist Della gives readers a front row seat to her daily life in foster care with her...
New Beginnings: Let's Get Lost
Adi Alsaid has released many young adult books since his first title, Let’s Get Lost, but I can promise you, this one blazes through as just as good,...