Skip the Essay: 7 Book Project Ideas That Make Assessment More Fun (and Just as Rigorous)
Tired of reading the same five-paragraph essays over and over? You know the ones—60 students have selected the same three…
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8 Evocative Poems with Imagery for AP Literature
If there’s one literary device that just screams poetry, it’s imagery. Sure, figurative language matters. Sound devices are unique to…
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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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Teaching the Literary Analysis Essay: A Step by Step Guide
Teaching writing is hard. Teaching literary analysis is hard. Teaching our students how to write a literary analysis essay? Do…
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Everything You Need to Know to Teach Expository Writing
Confession: for most of our careers, we didn’t really know what “expository writing” meant, why it mattered as much as…
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Sentence Starters: A Godsend for Teaching Writing
If you’ve ever attended a training on how to support English Language Learners (ELLs) in your classroom, you’ve probably been…
