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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...
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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...
Helping Students Visualize What They Read
For fluent readers, reading is like having a movie play in their minds. But for struggling readers, they see pages and pages of text. Stopping to...
Writing Scenes Using Humans of New York
This lesson invites students to explore how effective storytelling can distill powerful emotions and experiences into brief, memorable scenes....
Keeping Reading Lives Alive: Summer Literacy Playlists for Multilingual Learners
I was always a book worm.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...