Teaching Elaboration in Writing
Looking for ways to help students with elaboration in writing? It’s a complex skill that requires mature thinking. In this post, you’ll find concrete ways to make elaboration in writing…
Lesson Planning Tips: Content Chunking
An important element of effective lesson design is content chunking. Often, it gets side-stepped due to time constraints or a push to get through the material faster. When teachers prioritize…
Lesson Planning Tips: The Anticipatory Set
And today, class, we will be talking about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theater. Please get out your notebooks and pens while I pull up the slide show. Are you…
Creating a Reading Culture that Inspires Secondary Students
Creating an environment that encourages students to love reading and to want to grow in their comprehension and analysis skills is an undertaking. To get a pulse on your classroom’s…
Transition to High School: Executive Functioning Skills Secondary Students Need
Deer in the headlights. That’s kind of what it feels like to look out at a sea of freshmen who are just transitioning to high school. One of the first…
Best Books for English Teachers: Professional Development
Most teachers read professional development books over the summer months. Sometimes, groups of educators get together and tackle them as part of a school-wide or department-wide book study during the…
Summer Learning Activities: How Teachers Can Support Parents
Looking for meaningful summer learning activities for teens? This post contains rewarding ideas for working with older students during the summer months. It’s the end of the year. You’ve made…
Writing Aloud: A Powerful Way to Model Writing
Wondering how to help students improve their writing skills and confidence? Model writing by writing aloud! To be honest, when I began teaching, I had very little idea how to…
Reading Instruction: Deciding What to Teach
This post is part of a series about reading instruction. To start from the beginning, read about getting to know your readers. When teachers plan reading curriculum in secondary, the…
How to Teach Reading: Step One – Getting to Know Your Readers
Searching for ways to teach reading meaningfully in secondary? Welcome! This post – Getting to Know Your Readers – is the first in a series about how to teach reading…
Classroom Transitions: 6 Ideas and Strategies for Secondary
Lesson transitions can be frustrating when they don’t go smoothly. Move from one activity to the next efficiently using these simple tips for classroom transitions. Imagine this: You’re teaching an…
4 Essential Scaffolding Strategies for Middle and High School
Do you ever feel like you’re not sure what to do with the students who…fail vocabulary quizzes, struggle to write essays, find grammar challenging, or grapple with literary analysis? It…
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