I don’t know about you, but I hate grading reading comprehension questions. First of all, the answers usually could be “borrowed” from websites like LitCharts or Spark Notes so they don’t actually tell you if the students read or not. Secondly, just...
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When I think about the success stories of my middle school emergent bilingual learners, I can’t help but smile. What about you? Sure, there were...
This blog entry is designed to provide some hints to help your students improve their writing on the free-response section of the exam. The...
Dynamic and flat characterization has been in language arts and English curricula forever, it seems. How do we up the rigor as students advance in...
Analyzing complex characters in a novel or a short story requires students to look at many things such as how they’re described physically, but also...
This lesson aims to show teachers and students how to develop a historical argument using Document-Based AP History (DBQ) documents. We will use...
In this lesson, students will choose pages from a scene from an assigned novel (this can be done with a shorter text, too). Students will start by...
Do you ever have one of those days where you ponder, “What on Earth am I doing, and am I doing it right???” I did. Often. And they were often...
The start of a new year always a wonderful opportunity to introduce students to effective, research-backed methods for studying more effectively....
With 45 questions in an hour, four answer choices per question, it’s understandable why the multiple-choice section can be intimidating.
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