Take Text Annotation to a New Level with Purposeful Doodling
Ever feel like you’d like your students to dig deeper into a text instead of just glossing over it with a superficial read? One of the most powerful strategies we…
Modeling with Graphic Organizers: A Surefire Way to Increase Learning
Inside this Post: If your experience with graphic organizers has been less than enchanting, stick around. This post has simple, specific suggestions for modeling with graphic organizers to increase learning!…
7 Good Examples of Emotional Character Development – with Mentor Texts!
Looking to teach students about how character development impacts theme? First, you’ll need to model with some specific, high-interest examples. Students need to know what character development looks like from…
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How to Use Text Sets to Build Background Knowledge
Searching for engaging ways to build students’ background knowledge? Perhaps you need an activity to help students prepare to read a complex text, to write an essay, or to engage…
15 Fun Ways to Freshen Up Your Independent Reading Activities
Inside: Is your choice reading program feeling stale? Are the independent reading activities falling flat? We can engage students and keep book love fresh by weaving in new ideas from…
Why We Need to Say Good Riddance to the Reading Log Forever
Inside: Have reading logs on your mind? Still wildly popular, reading logs have serious negative impacts on our students’ relationships with reading. This post is full of honest answers about…
6 Reading Routines Every Classroom Needs!
It’s happened to me frequently. I sit down, head swirling with ideas, clear about the direction I want to go with my instructional sequence. And then…as soon as I try…
How to Use Reading Sprints for Motivation and Critical Thinking
Ever wish you could add more student motivation and critical thinking to your independent reading program? Depending on the year or the class, it’s normal for students to show varying…
Effective Read Alouds for Teaching Literary Elements
If you are a middle or high school teacher, and you’re not incorporating picture books in your curriculum, why not!? Creating mini lessons with short texts is one of the…
10 of the Best Literary Analysis Activities to Elevate Thinking
Inside this Post: Ready to elevate your literary analysis lessons? This post is full of engaging and effective activities to help students master literary analysis topics. Literary analysis has become…
How to Select the Best Novels for Your ELA Curriculum
It’s frustrating when we have what feels like hundreds of standards to teach and little time to do it in. How do you fit it all in? Everyone wants to…
Digital One Pagers: How to Harness the Power of Technology
Are you looking for meaningful, standards-aligned strategies to have students respond to reading with distance learning? Digital one pagers can be an engaging way to simplify literary and informational text…
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