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What's Trending? 5 YA Fantasy Books Teens Love
I’m a #BookTok-er. It’s basically my entire For You Page (#FYP). And when you’re on BookTok, you come across repetitive recommendations.
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ELA: Instagram Activity for Learning Vocabulary
For this activity, students are tasked with creating an Instagram post imagining that their assigned vocabulary word was a person posting on social...
Middle School ELA: Words of Doom
"The “Words of Doom” were an addition to our spelling instruction in middle school ELA. They could easily be adjusted or modified for upper...
Welcoming English Language Learners into Your Middle School Classroom
It’s that time! The school year is beginning and you’re ready to welcome up to 180 new learners into your classroom. Whether you’re in your first...
ELA Activity: Practice Annotating Texts
Annotation is a life skill, especially for our college-bound students. Reading something with a purpose, a strategy to comprehend at a higher level,...
Interview with a Character (ELA Activity)
There are so many more interesting methods to writing a character analysis than writing an analysis paragraph. Oftentimes, English or language arts...
Developing Stamina in our Readers and Writers
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...
ELA Activity: 10-Song Playlist
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....
Word Clouds for Understanding Word Choice
Student writers—especially reluctant ones—often struggle with choosing the most fitting words to create an appropriate tone or mood in their writing....
10 YA Reads for Summer
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...