Simply handing back an essay with commentary and feedback is just one thing a teacher can do to help a student improve their writing. 

One-pagers and sketchnotes give students the opportunity to creatively express their interpretation of a novel. 

Students can get overwhelmed with the terminology of literary analysis.  There are a lot of techniques (free resource) and it can be hard to keep track of them all. 

Literary analysis can be a fun way students learn how to interpret quotes and identify patterns in writing.  However, most students prefer

Freud had a lot of wild theories, but a simple understanding of the short essay “The Structure of the Unconscious” can help students easily

There will always be new tools to help teachers combat the use of AI.  A Chrome extension called Origin by GPTZero provides a writing ...

Schools and teachers usually organize ELA curriculum by novel, theme, or genre, or some combination of those three. 

Teaching students the value of using quotes in an essay is more important now than ever ...

Students love to think about how a character develops because they too, because they’re teenagers, experience a lot of change. 

It’s easy for students to get caught in the trap of simply identifying literary techniques without considering their purpose ...

Because I teach seniors, I start the year with a short unit on the personal narrative and college essay. It helps me get to know ...

There are many students that love literature for the world it creates, the brand-new world that exists only within the front and back cover

It’s spring, which means it’s time to get creative. At this point in the year, students should be close to meeting our expectations ...

My students write most of their essays by hand in class. There are a lot of reasons for that, but at this point in the year ...

Some books, maybe most, don’t require much introduction. Novels, to some extent, exist in their own world.

AI is all the buzz lately. No need to teach writing anymore, a computer can do it...

It’s difficult to find a book that every child will love. They like contemporary stories that seem similar to their own ...

I used to get moans when I asked students to write a poem. But in the last few years ...

Close reading may be the most important skill taught in an English class. It’s the heart and soul of what we do: uncover the world ...

It’s becoming more and more common for students to think that they shouldn’t have to work for an answer or a solution to a problem...

Literary techniques make literature, literature. Without them, we’d be left with words and facts...

I’ve been thinking a lot about all the challenges of this past year, but also trying to learn from it. I tried book clubs for the first time

I start the school year talking about how language is all around us.

This week, I asked students to connect the literature we study in class to the modern world. We had amazing, open-ended conversations ...