Simple Strategies for Empowering Girls in the Secondary ELA Classroom
Women’s History Month is a great time to acknowledge the accomplishments of women and discuss the many obstacles they’ve overcome, along with the many issues
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How to Get High School Students Talking About Literature
How do secondary ELA teachers get students to talk about their reading in a meaningful way? In an era marked by declining national reading scores,
Getting Teens to Read
Did you know that humans have a need to read? Some of my students don’t always agree with this sentiment, so every semester I begin
Rethinking The Great Gatsby: How I Learned to Love (and Teach) a Classic
Most high school English teachers would consider what I’m about to say complete sacrilegious: I didn’t like reading The Great Gatsby in high school, and
Honor Multiple Intelligences with Book Projects
How do you assess the reading of novels in your classrooms? I try to vary my assessment throughout the semester and use reading logs, literature