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 ...

July has come to an end and it’s that time when the thought of school starts to plan its seed in every teacher’s mind. What will this year

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

The end of the school year is the best time to get ideas for next year. All the successful and failed experiments are still fresh in my...

It’s fun to end the year with a project that students will remember. Instead of a traditional final, there are a lot of ways ...

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 ...

Teachers want their students to be readers, and not just readers of words. We want them to read the world around them: the streets ...

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.

Creating a short film used to be a long and difficult process, so I gave up on it. But then it became much easier to shoot and edit video.

It feels like it’s getting harder and harder to keep the attention of our students. Every teacher knows that if a student doesn’t use ...

It’s not easy to find literature that gets students to talk about the world they live in. It can be done with any novel ...

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 ...

Every teacher is familiar with the kind of student who struggles to pay attention for a long period of time...

For me, stress always hits at the end of a marking period. I suddenly realize how much I need to grade . . .

When I look back on my teaching career, some of my favorite moments actually happened outside the classroom. For some reason ...

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...