Teacher burnout can happen when we feel obligated to grade every single piece of paper. This blog post presents an alternative grading theory-- that of auditing. Auditing grades, especially essay writing. is a crucial skills for English teachers to assess key skills without killing ourselves. Essay writing, in particular, can be daunting when it comes to grading. Try these strategies to help!
Decorating, organizing, and preparing your high school classroom spaces is critical for new and veteran teachers alike. Here are four ideas to get your classroom prepared to support and inspire your students and keep you motivated to deliver incredible lessons!
Crime stories captivate us. Crime stories draw us in through a sense of horror and mystery. And crime stories are excellent tools to engage students in the classroom. Through this project, students can research infamous criminals and crime stories as a research project or research essay to compile information about infamous crime stories, infamous criminals, and famous crime cases.
Teaching American literature: An outline of units of study and engaging activities for a high school American literature course
A Language Arts Curriculum & Literary Adventure All-In-One!
Classic literature is considered classic for good reason; its characters are relatable and its themes are timeless. If you are making additions to or revising the reading list for your English Language Arts course, here's 10 classic literature titles that are still worth teaching in middle school and high school.
Body biography projects, collaborative learning, novel studies, middle school ELA, high school English
If your students are requesting some lighter literature, check out some of the funny short stories for high schoolers I've rounded up.
You want your classroom to be a colorful, cozy, and inviting learning space. You’d love to have a cohesive theme or at least a color scheme, so everything looks put together. But are themes childish? Aren’t middle schoolers too old for classroom decor?
In the last couple of years I have gone through some teaching position changes that I never thought would happen to me. I taught self-contained 5th grade for three years (that included my student teaching). I knew nothing else, and honestly, at the time, I didn’t really want to. Long story short, I moved across ... Read more
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Find out why HIP Books are the best books for struggling and reluctant readers
Teaching reading? ELA teachers are constantly searching for new inspiration. How can we get more students to read? How can we create a warm, inviting literacy culture? How can we...
Why is having a diverse classroom library and reading list so important? Many of us teach in schools with diverse populations and those students deserve to see themselves reflected in our classrooms and the books we read. Many of us also teach in schools that are not diverse and those students need to be exposed to cultures, races, religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations that differ from their own. Here's 14 novels with diverse characters to recommend to secondary students.
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