On the hunt for poems to teach in the winter? There’s just something so very Walden Pond about looking at beautiful …
Analyzing a Song – So Simple Every Student Can Do It
English teachers, teaching your students how to analyze song lyrics needs to be a "go-to" strategy, a step toward deeper …
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Revolutionize Your EXIT TICKETS With These Easy-Peasy Tips
Exit tickets, a.k.a. "exit slips" or "checks for understanding" are a great way for teachers to monitor student progress …
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Improve Your Transition Words In An Essay Skills
Transition words in an essay are a great way of linking ideas together. If you’re writing an essay on why you should …
The Power of Third Person Point of View
Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told, and one common perspective used in writing is the third …
Strategies for Close Reading That Rock
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I love teaching strategies for close reading. I love teaching students the …
Top 10 Grammar Mistakes High School Students Make (and what to do instead)
Grammar mistakes and punctuation errors are common in everyone’s writing. Yes, even published professionals have …
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Secrets to Teaching Students with Anxiety
How can we as educators support students with anxiety in the classroom? There is a growing consensus that mental health …
Writers Journal Prompts Tip: Shake It Up
I’m excited to share with you how writers journal prompts have become a key to success in my classroom. I …
Effective Prompts for Writing Poetry
Teachers looking for prompts for poem analysis and prompts for writing poetry may turn Walt Whitman over in his grave. …
Show Don’t Tell Examples for Student Success
You may have heard writing teachers instructing their students to “show, don’t tell,” or maybe you’ve used that little …
The Best Questions for Book Discussion
Questions for book discussion were a pain point in my pedagogy for years. I struggled to strike a balance between …