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Learn from a veteran, NBCT English teacher how to grade less, not more so that you don’t become a workaholic zombie.

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210 Fun Debate Prompts & Essay Topics That are Argumentative

Argumentation and persuasion. The art of rhetoric is about helping students think critically and communicate effectively. Students don’t usually need help forming opinions. They come to us fully-loaded with opinions…

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Unlock Creativity: 23 Ideas for Teaching Poetry

Sometimes inspiration for writing poetry comes easily, as easy as remembering a favorite memory or looking out the window. Aaaaand sometimes when you’re teaching poetry to middle or high school…

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Refresh Grammar Instruction in Middle School & High School

Many teachers find that their grammar instruction includes piecing together grammar lessons and resources. Grammar may be under-emphasized (who has the time!?) or over-emphasized (marking EVERY error in student papers…

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Steal My Born a Crime Teaching Ideas

Deciding to teach Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime to sophomore students several years ago was one of the BEST shifts for student engagement. Students, on semester exit surveys, regularly comment…

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10 Simple Ways to Streamline Teacher Planning

It’s no secret that creating lesson plans and engaging activities for students is a time consuming and occasionally daunting task. You can spend hours upon hours trying to organize everything,…

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100 Fun Getting to Know you Questions for Back to School (or anytime)

When it’s time for a brand new school year, you know what that means: starting fresh and learning about a whole different set of students. Of course it takes time…

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11 Active Learning Strategies for Reading Fiction

When administrators leave their offices and conduct walk-throughs, they look for evidence of active learning.  When we communicate home to parents that we want students to “participate more” or be…

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Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in English Language Arts Classrooms

Seems these days we are spending a lot of time and resources developing artificial intelligence, paying less attention to our own intelligence, to help us in our daily lives.  Unsure…

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32 Graphic Novels to Encourage Independent Reading

When students pick up their phones, they aren’t reading eBooks. They are checking Insta, scrolling Tik Toks, binging YouTube.  They bombard themselves with visuals.  They find themselves more comfortable with visual…

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Fun Classroom Games for Building Relationships

It’s the beginning of the school year. You scan through the mental rolodex of ideas for getting to know your students (because, let’s face it, you’re getting older and you…

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Exploring Figurative Language Examples in Popular Culture

I’m going to use a figurative language example here: 1000 times today my students have talked about Taylor Swift’s new album.  Has it been 1000 times?  Nah, but it feels…

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Using Rhetorical Devices to Write More Effectively

If you want to be a rhetorical devices finder, you might have plenty to look for here in this blog post.  Indeed, you can find them in speeches, in literature,…

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