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How To Create More Authentic Writing Assignments For Students

Terrell HeickSep 1, 2021

To create authentic writing assignments, you should have a clear purpose & resistant audience in mind — one students must work to engage.

12 Of The Best Digital Tools And Rhyming Dictionaries…

TeachThought StaffOct 10, 2020

These 12 rhyming dictionaries and tools can help you find rhyming words, synonyms, and other forms of creative wordplay.

Actor’s Theatre Streaming Performances During COVID-19 Closure

TeachThought StaffMar 30, 2020

Actors Theatre of Louisville announces Actors Theatre Direct: on-demand content to ensure that theatre continues to thrive during COVID-19.

How Twitter Can Help Students Write Better Thesis Statements

TeachThought StaffMay 18, 2019

Tweets are limited to 280 characters–plenty for a well-written sentence. Ask students to tweet their thesis statements in one sentence.

How David Foster Wallace Taught Students To Respond To…

Terrell HeickApr 11, 2019

The reader, in fact, will feel about you, your subject, and your essay only what your written words themselves induce her to feel.

21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature…

Terrell HeickFeb 28, 2018

Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of change in the ways people read…

Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things

Terrell HeickJan 25, 2018

How can you teach digital students non-digital things? 21st century reading & thinking is linked in a web of physical & digital…

12 Strategies For Teaching Literature In The 21st-Century

Terrell HeickJun 30, 2017

From affording choice to anchoring year-long discussion of certain themes, here are strategies for teaching literature in the 21st century.