You Don’t Need a Reading Log: Smarter Ways to Check In with Student Readers
In our divide-and-conquer approach to grading, Steph was our official “reading log grader.” It’s not because she was particularly skilled…
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Game On: A Hunger Games Novel Unit Designed for Student Engagement
What if your next novel unit didn’t just keep students reading, but had them thinking, strategizing, and, best of all,…
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18 Dystopian Young Adult Novels That Will Make Your Students Think
Our latest project here at Three Heads is a unit for Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (coming soon!), which means…
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The Independent Reading Approach That Worked for Us (and Some That Didn’t)
Ah, the days of elementary school—games of four square at recess, field trips to local museums, holiday-themed art projects, the…
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11 Glamour-Filled Independent Reading Books for Teens
A quick scroll through the weekend New York Times headlines tells us that Americans tend to be fairly obsessed with…
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50 Excellent Middle School Books to Recommend on First Chapter Friday
Middle school teachers, we didn’t realize how hard you have it. Of course, we knew teaching middle school required a…
