Literacy Posts

Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.

SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).

A metaphor is a literary device (or figure of speech) that makes a comparison between two ‘things’ without the comparison being…

While the content can be dramatic, dystopian novels for young adults can offer a kind of practice for navigating an uncertain…

Quality sources of free reading passages are useful for any teacher regardless of grade level or content area.

Hermeneutics is a branch of knowledge concerned with the theory, practice, and methodology of interpretation of text.

Novels written in verse typically rely heavily on dialogue, emotion, and themes of identity–the latter of which are relevant to YA…

What’s one crazy, moonshot idea that may never work in this plan–but if it did, it could change everything?

From Terry Heick