Organize my classroom! This strange year of 2020 is causing me to seek control in every way. I organize to make my life easier than an unorganized life. As I…
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Building a Community of Readers
Building a community of readers should be an intentional act, in the classroom or online. I first noticed Kara on Instagram. She posted about book talks, and we conversed about…
High School English Teacher: Back To School Ideas
How should a high school English teacher prepare for back to school this year? It’s a strange time. I’m in the USA and as of the writing of this post,…
Considerations for SEL in the Classroom
Considerations for SEL in the classroom: social and emotional learning. This previous year, teachers and students experienced a mass upheaval. Overall, teachers were concerned with SEL for their students. I…
12 Ways to Build Literacy in the Secondary Classroom
12 Ways to Build Literacy in the Secondary Classroom: secondary teachers share all! I love books. Love, love reading. I collect books and decorate with books. Most ELA teachers adore…
Digital Grammar Activities: Adding Meaning to Online Grammar
Digital grammar activities: we teachers can add meaning to our lessons. In the spring of 2020, I was thrown into online teaching like teachers across the world. The entire process…
Setting Up the Digital Classroom for Distance Learning
Setting up the digital classroom for distance learning should take into account your community, standards, and your students. Make a clean and simple digital classroom design. No matter what the…
Make Student Revising Meaningful
The time comes in any writing lesson: the time for student revising. In a previous post, Make Student Editing Meaningful, I explain that I don’t draw a hard line between…
Authentic Assessments with Media Literacy
Authentic assessments with media literacy require bringing pieces of life to the classroom. Authentic assessments can involve showing connections from language arts to the bigger world and students’ lives. When…
Teaching Clauses: Quick Teaching Tips
Teaching clauses: independent and dependent clauses are an important part of sentence structure lessons. By teaching clauses, you’ll also be teaching important punctuation rules. I always explain grammar lessons to…