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Structured Academic Conversations in ELA
“Hey… hi… hello, can you hear me? Can you [take your earbuds out], [put your head up], [talk with a partner], please?”
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Summary vs. Analysis Lesson Plan for ELA Teachers
Students often rely on summaries as a shortcut to understand literature. While summaries help review the plot, they flatten storytelling into a list...
Student-Generated Questions: How to Teach 3 Levels of Questioning
There is no shortage of professional development on teaching educators how to write questions. We add them to our lesson plans, we spin manual or...
Relationship Building Activities that Still Teach ELA
It's the first week of school; you don’t know the students, and they don’t know you. You want to start off building relationships but know you need...
Teaching Students to Have Original Ideas in the Age of AI
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly accessible, many teachers are asking the same question: How do we teach students to think for...
Setting Up Your Classroom For Success
The end of summer can bring up many anxious feelings. One of the most prominent is ensuring our classrooms are set up perfectly before the school...
Advice from a Veteran Teacher
To be successful, teachers become chameleons. It is impossible to do our jobs without learning to adapt. As I spend more time in this career, I...
Think Outside the Bag: Middle School Icebreaker
What do a wooden spoon, neon vest, ball of yarn, and rubber duck have in common? In my classroom, they become tools students use to solve real-world...
First Week Writing Tasks Beyond "What I Did This Summer"
In high school, many students spent their summer working, babysitting younger siblings, or playing video games. Others were at the pool, had their...
Summer Reading and Writing Challenges
Before you’re of working age to get a job for the summer, the idea of filling up almost 12 weeks of time is intimidating and can lead to feeling...