If you’re on my mailing list, you already know about the grammar unit Jennifer Williams (@jennwillteach), a fellow Oklahoma teacher, guest blogger here at reThink ELA, and #FierceWomanofOklahoma, and I are working on this summer. (If not, you really should be!) I wrote about this a few days ago, and wanted to share it here […]
NYT: Teenagers Suggest Creative Ways To Link Classic Texts To Today’s World
Teenagers across America responded to a challenge set forth by The New York Times late last year to take something they’d read in class and connect it to the real world. As I’ve read through the 50 suggestions, I have been impressed. Not because teenagers are making such significant connections, but because of how significant […]
Looking For A Summer Short Story For Middle And High School Students?
If your students are anything like mine, they’re ready to be done. It’s beautiful outside — when it’s not raining or producing tornadoes here in Oklahoma — and everyone just wants to go outside. But we still have a few days of school left, and we might as well use them for learning, right? Why […]
reThink ELA #006: Interview with Marisa Thompson
How would your students react if you didn’t give them any parameters for a project and simply told them to “figure it out”? Is this asking for trouble by putting the kids in charge of the classroom or is it an exercise in critical thinking and collaboration? In traditional classrooms, students are often given a […]
reThink ELA #005: Interview with Scott Bayer
How much time do you allow your students to write in class? What is the appropriate amount of time you think kids need to write? Or are you so busy lecturing (Just say no!) that you send them home to do their writing? While the appropriate amount of writing time may be arbitrary and subjective […]
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