Graphic organizers help students that think logically like scientists and mathematicians.

I recently encountered an article in the Atlantic titled “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.”  It scared me a little ...

I have a love for most the literature I read in high school and college.  I’m sure you’re familiar with the writers ...

There’s nothing like close reading.  A bunch of colorful annotations on a poem is a beautiful thing.  Close reading is a valuable skill and

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

With every passing year, it seems harder and harder to get students interested in whole class discussions. But there are creative ways ...

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

The biggest challenge ELA teachers face year to year is how to get to students to not only read the novels we assign ...

Picking a novel to teach is never easy. Teachers must teach what’s board approved, what’s in the curriculum. There’s always the issue of h

Early in my career, I remember rolling through a novel chapter by chapter with PowerPoint slides and handouts. It always drove me crazy ...

About five years ago, I read an article by a high school student about the way to create a LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum...

It’s easy to say to our students that literature should be meaningful. It’s easy to ask students … what does that line mean?

Magical realism goes beyond the place that a metaphor takes us. It goes beyond the realm of comparison.

I’m trying to get as creative as possible when it comes to being flexible with students. After finishing a few units ...

I attended the virtual NCTE conference this past Friday and it got me thinking about the research paper, or really, rethinking it. Part...

We need to think about what we’re asking students when we ask them to do homework.

What’s the point of English class?

The good thing is, this year, our students will be thirsty to know more about the world they live in.

This is the hardest thing for any teacher. Take a very difficult and complicated topic and make it easy to understand.

If we want students to be lifelong learners and readers, we need to make reading as fun and painless as possible.

Faulkner heard stories from his family and then created a novel, a living map, from those stories.

Why do I think Virginia Woolf is the greatest writer of all time? There are so many reasons.

Every great piece of literature explores the inner workings of what the character doesn’t consciously know about their own desires and fears

ust as Austen imagined a world of romance determined by “age, character, and condition”, The Bachelor asks the same questions. It captures a