Last time, I wrote about 11 Brilliant Strategies for Dialectic Journals for Better Close Reading. Dialectic Journals are also called double entry journals. And as I was writing that post, I realized, I need another post to address Teaching Students How to Write Double Entry Journals. Students will need help
A few weeks ago, I wrote about using Reader Response in High School English. If you missed that post, you should go skim it before you read this post where I share 11 Brilliant Strategies for Dialectic Journals to get your students to do better close reading. Close reading is
Since many students receive a lot of grammar instruction in middle school, it can be tempting to think you don’t have to cover many grammar for advanced students. This week’s post is a guest post by Missy Davis from The English Teacher Vault. Missy has over a decade of experience
March is upon us and with it comes Women’s History Month and March Madness and the Ides of March and St. Patrick’s Day and the first day of spring. There are so many directions that we can take our English classes in the month of March. Truthfully, it’s one of
I think sometimes we discount asking students their opinions about what they are reading. I know I certainly have in the past. The thought is that if student’s are offering their opinion they are not really getting to the depth of thinking that upper levels of high school English require.
When I was in high school, the vocabulary program my teacher used was a study of Greek and Latin roots. We had a workbook and each week we learned a new set of roots or prefixes. This totally tapped into my Maven (Learner) Sparketype. I loved that I could see
Before I was in college (back in the 90s), I had never really heard of the Harlem Renaissance. I am not even sure that I had been exposed to any Harlem Renaissance writers. Maybe Langston Hughes? Probably not. Once I got to college, however, I took a class in African
Close reading may be the most important skill we can teach our high school students. It is a skill that can help them in almost any subject that involves reading and it is an essential life skill. These strategies for close reading are great way to ensure that our high
I recently took Jonathan Fields Sparketype quiz and learned that my primary Sparketype is the Maven. Mavens love learning for the sake of learning. They love taking a deep dive into topics that interest them. So it is no wonder I love reading books by English teachers for English teachers.
The first time my students participated in a poetry slam, I had been a teacher for less than three weeks. I was hired to replace a teacher who would be retiring in mid-September when he turned 55 and became eligible. In those few weeks, he was forced to “hang on,”
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