What modern short stories for high school English classes can you teach? Add these modern and diverse voices to your curriculum. High school short stories can reflect our students’ lives. …
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Teaching Literature with Examples of Child Abuse
You are probably teaching literature with examples of child abuse. I began looking at literature this year through a trauma-educated lens. It was a disturbing glimpse. A dozen or so…
Where To Publish Student Writing
Are you looking for where to publish student writing? I have ideas for the publishing step in the writing process. Publishing is the final step in the writing process. I…
Share Literature With Students: Show Your Love
Share literature with students to increase involvement with books and to build classroom community. Part of being an English teacher is allowing your students to witness you nerd out literature,…
Teaching Punctuation: Semicolon, Dash, Ellipsis, Comma, and More
Teaching punctuation rules? I have a punctuation guide for teachers and students! Teaching punctuation cannot happen in a “unit.” When we present punctuation resources and never tie those ideas to…
High School English Teacher: Back To School Ideas
How should a high school English teacher prepare for back to school? With the start of fall around the corner and high school English classes about to begin, it’s a…
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. As a teacher on social media, I saw an uptick…
12 Ways to Build Literacy in the Secondary Classroom
12 Ways to Build Literacy in the Secondary Classroom: secondary teachers share ideas for literacy in high school! I love books. Love, love reading. I collect books and decorate with…
Digital Grammar Activities: Adding Meaning to Online Grammar
Digital grammar activities: we teachers can add meaning to our practice exercises. In the spring of 2020, I was thrown into online teaching like teachers across the world. The entire…
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…