Learn why one-pagers are one of my go-to activities for breaking down complex topics and texts. Understand what they are, why you and your students will love them, and how to implement them in your… Read More »Why One-Pagers Are Awesome!
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Helping Students to Understand the Difference Teaching symbolism and allegory can be a challenge. Keep reading to learn tips for teaching symbolism and allegory in a way that is relevant and approachable for students. Additionally,… Read More »Teaching Symbolism and Allegory
The Benefits of Reading Out Loud To Secondary Students The practice of reading aloud to students becomes increasingly infrequent as students move up in grades. Reading aloud is for children, we think. We’ve convinced ourselves… Read More »The Benefits of Reading Aloud to Secondary Students
Teaching effective reading comprehension strategies is essential to help students grow as strong and independent readers in your classroom and beyond. Keep reading to learn how to implement effective reading comprehension strategies in your classroom.… Read More »Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies
What It Is And Why It’s Important Have you heard educators talking about teaching tiered vocabulary and wondered what the heck that is or how to incorporate it into your instruction? You’ve come to the… Read More »Teaching Tiered Vocabulary
This lesson is Background Information for the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. The focus of this lesson includes history of the 1960s and topics like culture, style, music, and cars. Before reading the novel The Outsiders, familiarize… Read More »The Outsiders Lesson Plans | Entire Novel Study
These printable Mood and Tone reference sheets are perfect for students to keep handy when analyzing mood and tone in any short story, novel, or poem. These two worksheets include the definitions of both mood and tone,… Read More »Tone and Mood Examples | Free Printable PDF
There are many engaging activities to use when teaching argumentation and persuasion beyond the classic essay. While the argumentative essay can certainly be effective, try something new with one of these 6 engaging activities. Your… Read More »Teaching Argumentation and Persuasion: 6 Engaging Activities Beyond the Argumentative Essay
Many words in the English language are formed by taking base words or root words and adding combinations of prefixes and suffixes to them. A root word is the primary form of a word. While root words… Read More »300 Commonly Used Greek & Latin Root Words, Prefixes, & Suffixes
Analyzing characters is an essential part of teaching literary analysis. Characterization is the process that an author uses to reveal the personality of characters in a literary text. Character traits, motives, choices, and psychology help… Read More »Character Traits List
Facilitating classroom discussions can feel like pulling teeth, especially when students are disengaged. Yet, classroom discussions are an essential component of the ELA classroom. Read on to learn 10 activities that will help you facilitate… Read More »10 Activities To Help Facilitate Engaging Classroom Discussion
Use these 17 essential questions to guide your students through literary analysis regardless of what they’re reading. The best part? You can recycle and reuse these questions, again and again, all year long. The key… Read More »Teaching Literary Analysis: 17 Essential Questions To Guide Your Students.