Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ With Harvard Poetry Professor
Nas explores ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell,’ a track of ranging similes and metaphors with a pace that required 50+ plays before you could begin to appreciate it,
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6 Tech-Based Poetry Ideas For Students Who Think They Hate Poetry
Poetry gets a bad rap for being too dense and pretentious. Try these strategies to help students who hate poetry warm up to its magic.
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4 Benefits Of Teaching Writing With Online Tools
Online writing tools that provide automated feedback give students more opportunities to practice their writing.
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How I Use Data To Motivate Students To Become Better Readers
Equipping students with the right tools and providing them with the proper support can set struggling readers up for success.
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3 Ways To Grow Independent Readers
These suggestions offer possibilities to bring back a love for reading. The outcomes can lead to lifelong, independent readers.
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20 Guiding Questions To Develop A Digital Literacy Plan
Digital literacy is emerging as a genuine concern in education as technology competes with traditional texts for student attention.
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3 Books Any Aspiring Wordsmith Should Read
Here are a few books on style, grammar, and how to keep your audience engaged that are sure to ignite your writing inspiration.
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4 Paradigm Shifts That Can Improve How You Teach Reading
Reflecting on my years in the classroom, a few things come to mind that I wish I had done a differently to be more effective.
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How To Use The Text Reduction Strategy To Improve Reading Comprehension
The Text Reduction Strategy can improve reading comprehension by reducing a text to distill it to its essence: theme, thesis, main ideas.
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13 iPad Apps That Promote Close Reading
Close-reading is an active process characterized by questioning, adjusting reading rate, judgement thinking, and dozens of other strategies.
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Instead Of A Book Report, My Students ‘Wrote’ A Video
My students were overjoyed when I shared this new tool that enabled them to work more interactively with their book reports.
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Dyslexic Thinkers Aren’t Disabled Thinkers
Image or picture thinking is the innate process dyslexic thinkers use. Our educational system is just beginning to understand how to best respond.
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14 Ways To Use Digital Text Annotation In The Classroom
Skim for key vocabulary that seems important, is confusing, or otherwise ‘stands out’ and mark it in a separate color.
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Cheap Children’s Books: 26 Books For Under $10 (Each)
If you’re an elementary school teacher, you know the challenges of funding a classroom. With many content areas, it can get expensive fast.
