Looking for grammar activities that won’t cost you any money? Seriously. You can create these grammar hunts with your trash or extra activities. A grammar hunt is simply when you…
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Writing Complete Sentences: Helping Students with Incomplete Sentence Structure
Are your students struggling with writing completing sentences? In this post, I share ideas for supporting young writers and my ideas for teaching them how to write a complete sentence. I…
Teacher’s Guide to Organizing First Chapter Friday
As you asked: the Teacher’s Guide to Organizing First Chapter Friday. Improve classroom management and relationships with students with these First Chapter Friday, high school ideas. Many people ask me…
The Grace Year: Young Adult Literature Book Review
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett is a young adult dystopian story.
Picture Books in the Secondary Classroom
Do you use picture books in the secondary classroom? My librarian calls these books “everybody books” and with good reason. After I read The Book Whisperer, I knew that I…
Six Writing Mini-Lessons for Secondary Students
Writing mini-lessons? Today, I’m reflecting on the larger writing process that I teach with freshmen and sophomores. I’ve realized that within my writing units, I primarily teach six writing mini-lessons.…
Master Vocabulary and Grammar Lesson with These 10 Words
Looking for a dynamite vocabulary and grammar lesson? Try these ten adjectives with the following vocabulary lesson ideas. In this blog post, I (selfishly) sat down and thought of my…
Spice Up Literature Lessons with Infographics
Recently, I’ve spiced up literature lessons with infographics. I love infographics. Plus, I love literature lessons. Infographics are a modern approach to outlines, memes, and other “clickable” content. My students…
Digital Guidelines for the Secondary Classroom
Looking for digital guidelines for the secondary classroom? I have ideas for adding digital guidelines to classroom guidelines. I am still in the process of developing digital guidelines. My classroom…
10 Books for First Chapter Friday
Books for First Chapter Friday? These ten books worked well because their first chapters are awesome. Teachers ask me about how I manage First Chapter Friday, and I’ve written extensively…