I have recently been reading a professional development book that suggests that high school English teachers are sending their students off to college unprepared for the amount, frequency and difficulty of college reading. While our students will often skate on the reading outside of class, we can spend time in
As an AP® Literature teacher, it’s always a struggle trying to decide how to start the course. I first heard about short story bootcamp for AP® Literature when I first started teaching the course. At the time, most of the teachers who were using it were also using a text
A while back, I shared books written by English teachers for English teacher that I love. Those books are PD books that will change the way you think about your classroom. And, if you haven’t read that post, you should. Today I am sharing 7 nonfiction texts that I think
Kids start learning about point of view in elementary school where they often learn about first person point of view and third person point of view. Sometimes they even learn about the third person omniscient point of view. But as students advance in high school courses, they need to realize
I love teaching short stories in all of my high school English classes. The great thing about short stories is that you can take as much time or as little time as you need. You can select short stories that can be completed in a period or you can use
I used to listen to NPR all the time, but in recent years the political discord just got to be more than I could handle on a daily basis, so I turned to podcasts. I love listening to podcasts while I am driving, folding laundry or meal prepping. Due to their
I don’t know about you, but every year, about this time, I stop start reflecting on the year and thinking ahead to how I will do it next year. If you are not revising, you are not growing. And I am totally thinking about what I want to do differently
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
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