Making Your Socratic Seminars Smaller
Socratic seminars are great learning tools because they allow students to voice their own questions and opinions about the subject being discussed. But with the
4 Reasons Students Should Read in the Classroom
School is relatively short when you think about the way we slice the day into different periods. Kids get maybe an hour with you a
Teaching Your Students to Edit Their Work
Oftentimes, students will not edit their own work, as it does not seem necessary to them. What they may not realize is the importance of
Growth Mindset Novels to Recommend to Students: 9 Book Recommendations for Middle and High School
A great way to incorporate a growth mindset into the middle school and high school ELA classroom is by introducing it through literature. As we read and teach novels in our classroom, discussing how characters persevere to overcome substantial obstacles can have more of an impact on our students’ lives than we imagine. You and your students will love these growth mindset novels!
Secondary ELA Pacing Guide and Curriculum Map
One of the most challenging things for a (new) teacher is planning and pacing the curriculum. After all, there are so many different standards to
8 Ways to Bring Halloween Into The Classroom: Halloween Activities for Secondary ELA
Halloween can be a lot of fun in the high school English classroom, and just because it’s Halloween doesn’t mean that we have to ditch the curriculum in favor of candy-apples. Teaching on Halloween can be fun, content-oriented, and rigorous with a little planning. Besides, the fall air and the excitement of the beginning of the holiday season usually energizes the students, so why not capture that excitement?
One of the best things to do on halloween is keep up the rigor but incorporate Halloween activities in your secondary ELA classroom.
Here are eight Halloween activities for Secondary ELA that you and your students will love!
Bad Movie Adaptations: What’s so Good About Them?
A simple Google search will show you some of the best book-to-movie adaptations in history. But what can really be gained in the classroom by,
How to Teach Tone: 3 Ways to Analyze Tone
Tone might be one of the hardest concepts to explain to students. Some understand tone immediately. These are not the students to worry about. Our job as teachers is to help those who do not innately understand how to analyze literature. Working out how to understand tone in the classroom can help students understand it better when reading at home.
Working it out at school can allow them to feel more confident while reading and analyzing on their own. Here are three ways to work on analyzing tone in the classroom that will help you with how to teach tone.
Spicing Up Shakespeare: 5 Ways to Add Some Pizazz to your Shakespearean Unit
Shakespeare might be a crowd favorite for us English buffs, but the average high school student seems to be less than enthusiastic about the concept.