high school ELA Archives

Top 10 Grammar Mistakes High School Students Make (and what to do instead)

October 9, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

Grammar mistakes and punctuation errors are common in everyone’s writing. Yes, even published professionals have …

September 19, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

How can we as educators support students with anxiety in the classroom? There is a growing consensus that mental health …

September 12, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

I’m excited to share with you how writers journal prompts have become a key to success in my classroom. I …

August 29, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

Teachers looking for prompts for poem analysis and prompts for writing poetry may turn Walt Whitman over in his grave. …

August 8, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

You may have heard writing teachers instructing their students to “show, don’t tell,” or maybe you’ve used that little …

August 1, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

Questions for book discussion were a pain point in my pedagogy for years. I struggled to strike a balance between …

July 14, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

Do you find yourself struggling to teach students how to choose better words for their writing? Do readers misunderstand …

June 30, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

We all want our English students to have deeper, more meaningful discussions about their reading, and literature lenses …

May 31, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

Active voice in writing is a powerful driver of student revision. When I sit shoulder-to-shoulder with a student …

May 24, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

High school writing teachers who are looking for ways to increase student voice in writing and participation in the …

April 28, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

Roles in literature circles have been around since I was in school. They're as dependable as the tears that come at the …

April 17, 2022 // by Lindsay Ann

Activities for media literacy begin as early as elementary school, but what do they look like by the time students enter …