You feel it, I feel it, we all feel it: group dynamics are different now. I started this article with a rather long lament about it. We don’t have as much time to teach content now that social-emotional needs prevail, the skill disparity is growing,...
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How do I get my kids in reading and writing shape, so they can move forward? Here are 6 questions I am asking myself as I attempt to help students...
I know sometimes it can be a struggle to get kids excited about nonfiction. Even I find myself more drawn to the escapism of fiction. But our world...
As a high school language arts teacher, I’m always trying to provide my students with alternate but equal assessments that aren’t always an essay....
This lesson provides strategies for predicting meaning, previewing texts, and making inferences about word meaning and vocabulary. Students will be...
Student writers—especially reluctant ones—often struggle with choosing the most fitting words to create an appropriate tone or mood in their writing....
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...
Although our middle school ELA students should have been capitalizing words like "I" since they were in early elementary school, many either just...
For some reason, students always struggle when teachers ask them to incorporate sources. It is a process that takes practice to do seamlessly, but...
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