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How to Host A Figurative Language Tasting
Teaching Strategies ► May 3, 2020

How to Host A Figurative Language Tasting

If your experiences are at all like mine, you might have some students who just will not write creatively. They'll create essays compliantly, but ask them to use their imagination and they freeze. In this post, I'll teach you how to host a figurative language tasting activity--a lesson that gets kids writing every time!

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How to Use Poetry Analysis as a Daily Warm-up 
Complete Guides ► April 5, 2020

How to Use Poetry Analysis as a Daily Warm-up 

How do you teach poetry analysis without overwhelming or boring students to death? After years of puzzling through this, I have an answer: use poetry analysis as a daily warm-up!

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6 Ways You Should Be Scaffolding Student Writing
Teaching Strategies ► March 8, 2020

6 Ways You Should Be Scaffolding Student Writing

You’ve probably heard a million times that you should be using differentiated instruction in your classroom. If you’re in a stricter building, it may even be required that you document your differentiation strategies. But how, exactly, are we supposed to differentiate writing instruction for our advanced, gifted, special education, trauma-sensitive, and ELL learners in a single class period!? It seems impossible! At least it does until you consider scaffolding writing instruction.

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Mentor Texts and Sentences: Everything You Need to Know
Complete Guides ► February 9, 2020

Mentor Texts and Sentences: Everything You Need to Know

Now, when I attend conferences and professional development, using mentor texts and sentences seems like a prerequisite for every quality unit. In this post, I hope to answer any and all questions you might have about mentor texts. I’ll try to include plenty of examples, links, helpful resources, activities, and lesson ideas.

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How to Create the Classroom Library of Your Dreams 
Complete Guides ► January 12, 2020

How to Create the Classroom Library of Your Dreams 

Everyone should have a classroom library, whether you teach English or another content area. Classroom libraries offer all kinds of benefits: increased student reading achievement, greater access to print material, greater levels of volume of student reading, and more. But starting a classroom library is a daunting task. How do you afford it? Organize it? Maintain it?

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Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: What You Need to Know
Complete Guides ► December 15, 2019

Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: What You Need to Know

Have you been told that you need to start using a claim, evidence, and reasoning (or C-E-R) framework for writing in your classroom? Maybe you need to closely adhere to the Common Core State Standards but aren’t quite sure where to begin. If you’re like me, you may have been told by administration-on-high that the whole school would be using C-E-R language in their classes to build consistency and teacher equity for students. Regardless, here you are wondering, what the heck is claim, evidence, and reasoning anyway? In this post, I aim to break it down for you.

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How to Teach When Students are Years Behind
Teaching Strategies ► October 20, 2019

How to Teach When Students are Years Behind

The curriculum decrees an essay must be written, but your students can barely write a sentence. How can you teach when your students are years behind?

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How to Design a Novel Unit that Doesn’t Bore your Students to Death: A Guest Blog Post From Yaddy’s Room
Experiences in the Classroom ► September 22, 2019

How to Design a Novel Unit that Doesn’t Bore your Students to Death: A Guest Blog Post From Yaddy’s Room

You have a boring novel unit, now what? Connect a movie to it! Luckily for you, I’m going to save you the blood sweat, and hangovers, and give you my process. I know. I’m awesome.

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Is Dear Martin the Right Novel for Your Class?
Teaching Strategies ► August 25, 2019

Is Dear Martin the Right Novel for Your Class?

When I read Dear Martin by Nic Stone, I knew it would be a fantastic whole class novel. In this post, I will help you determine if it’s right for your class, point out the perks of teaching it, and also hopefully help steer you away from some pitfalls.

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How to Make the Most of a Teachers Pay Teachers Sale: A Guide for Buyers
Complete Guides ► July 28, 2019

How to Make the Most of a Teachers Pay Teachers Sale: A Guide for Buyers

If you’re like most teachers, you’re on a budget. And if you’re like me and many other educators, nothing beats a Teachers Pay Teachers sale! But are you maximizing your spending? This post will cover the must-dos before each sale in order to stretch your dollars as far as possible.

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