Jennifer Williams and I are proud to announce the release of the 6th grade Grammar Conversations unit! We’ve poured our blood, sweat, and tears into it–and also drove three hours from home to facilitate a workshop on it (and the overall Grammar Conversations concept) at a high school in our state. You can check it […]
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reThink ELA #011: Getting Students Excited to Write with NaNoWriMo
Experienced adult writers are intimidated by the NaNoWriMo project, which entails writing a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Who thought up such an event when writing is usually a much longer labor of love? Now imagine the faces of 8th graders when presented with this project? A teaching veteran of 30 years, […]
Creating Spaces for ELA Educators And Students Through Blogging And Podcasting
Dr. Stephanie Hinton, founder of the Passing Notes podcast, and I finally met in person (I think we hadn’t met before?!) at EdCampOKC this year, and naturally we decided a podcast episode was in order. I mean, how can you not sit down and record the conversation when you have two passionate readers/writers/educators in the […]
How Are You Impacting Student Lives?
Education stakeholders who have never lead a classroom often want to know what kind of impact a teacher is having on a student this year. Those of us in the classroom often buy into the idea that we should be able to positively impact students immediately because we crave the validation that all the hours […]
27+ High Interest Nonfiction Websites For High School Student Readers
Note: The following list is ever-growing. If you have any sites you think should be added, please suggest them in the comments below and I’ll update the list. As public school teachers, we receive students in our classes who show up with varying degrees of interest in reading. Some of our students are passionate readers […]
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