With the New Year right around the corner, I am counting down 2018 with some of my favorite things from the year. Today’s 2018 countdown

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If you are looking to reenergize your students while providing engaging and rigorous classroom instruction, here are four different secondary ELA teaching resources for you.

When teaching novels, it is always good to have extra material in your lessons to further emphasize all that the book is saying. Short stories are great ways

As teachers, we all stress about the big tests our students have to take and none are more stressful and important than the SAT and ACT. One thing we stress about is how to teach SAT vocabulary in a way that adequately prepares our students for the test.

The students fret over it just as much as we do, and we all want to know we are preparing them for the test as best we can. One of the sections that we can focus on without completely changing our lesson plans is vocabulary. Here are five tips on how to incorporate SAT level vocab in your classroom.

I love teaching rhetorical analysis. It is one of my favorite units to teach because I love incorporating robust, relevant, and timely texts into my