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    AP® English Students and Teachers Share Strategies Before Exams

    These two AP English webinars offer practical strategies to help both teachers and students make the most of the final month before exams, so watching the recordings will leave you with ideas you can use immediately.

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    Webinar: Balancing Literacy Skills and Sustained Reading

    Dr. Brandon Abdon and Jennifer Abramson name the core tension secondary ELA teachers feel: the pressure to “cover” standards and test-prep skills...

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    Balancing Literacy Skills and Sustained Reading

    If you teach grades 6–12 ELA, you know the squeeze. You are expected to move students toward sophisticated analysis of theme, rhetoric, structure,...

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    AP® Literature: Line of Reasoning Activity

    A clear, defensible line of reasoning is what turns scattered insights into a cohesive, high‑scoring AP Lit essay. This worksheet helps students...

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    Exploring "The All of It" from the 2025 AP Lit Exam

    There are occasionally released items on the AP Exam that cause a teacher to immediately think, Well I did all that I could. This thought is often...

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    AP® Literature: Short Story Activities

    In my district, every nine weeks we ask our students at all grade levels to read a work independently and then demonstrate their knowledge of that...

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    Four-Part Lesson Framework for Spring ELA Review

    A four-part lesson framework can make spring ELA review focused, engaging, and efficient while naturally reinforcing skills students will see on...

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    Why Use AMSCO as Your Primary APUSH Textbook?

    When teachers consider textbooks for AP U.S. History, one question arises repeatedly: Why AMSCO? After all, there are excellent survey texts written...

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    Teaching Students to Think Rhetorically About Statistics

    In AP English Language and Composition, we ask students to enter an ongoing conversation, craft an argument, and make deliberate rhetorical choices....

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    Six Word Memoir Activity

    In this creative and reflective assignment, you’ll explore the art of powerful storytelling through just six words. You’ll examine examples of 6-word...

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