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3 Types of Interviews and Conversations in ELA
One of the most rewarding things about being a teacher is watching my students continue the conversation as they leave the classroom.Â
Jul 22, 20242 min read
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Teaching the Podcast Serial, Season 1, Episode 1 with Sarah Koenig
I’m always surprised when my students give their full attention to an hour-long podcast. What keeps kids locked into Serial is not ...
May 10, 20242 min read
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How to Teach or Assign a Podcast
Podcasts promote a very simple, yet important life skill: listening. They also help students understand tone, the emotion behind the ...
May 3, 20242 min read
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Literary Podcast Unit and Podcast Project
It’s fun to end the year with a project that students will remember. Instead of a traditional final, there are a lot of ways ...
May 5, 20232 min read
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Displaying Student Work
A few years ago, I was the advisor for my school’s student-run art gallery. My district converted an old garage used for storage space ...
Jul 11, 20213 min read
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Where to Find Real Stories on the Web
We’re finishing up a unit on Exit West by Mohsin Hamid this week so I’m asking my students to listen to a personal narrative of choice....
May 7, 20213 min read
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Real World Interviews and Conversations
I start the school year with a conversation about the value of literature, so I like to end by giving my students the opportunity to bring w
Apr 22, 20213 min read
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One Year Later: Reflection
Sometimes I like to complete the essay that I assign my students. In this case, I assigned a reflection on the last year. I also wanted...
Apr 8, 20214 min read
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Teaching Media Literacy
A lot of what we deal with in English language arts relates to strangers, people we don’t know. We read novels and non-fiction to immerse...
Jan 31, 20214 min read
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10 Creative Projects for Remote Learning
My colleagues and I recently had a conversation about the rest of the year and what we could do to keep our students engaged....
Dec 23, 20206 min read
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Rethinking Research
I attended the virtual NCTE conference this past Friday and it got me thinking about the research paper, or really, rethinking it. Part...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
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Sometimes, Less is More
If there’s one thing virtual teaching has taught me, it’s that less is more.
May 6, 20202 min read
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Teaching Podcasts
The podcast takes us back to oral epic poetry – it demands the mind’s attention just like a lengthy novel.
Apr 8, 20203 min read
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The Sounds of Literature
Reading literature out loud to my students is one of my favorite things about teaching. It reminds me of when I was a child, and my mother w
Jan 8, 20204 min read
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Why is Hamlet Great?
We’re wrapping up Hamlet this week, and it never ceases to amaze me how it stays relevant year after year.
Dec 19, 20193 min read
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