Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things
How can you teach digital students non-digital things? 21st century reading & thinking is linked in a web of physical & digital media.
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12 Strategies For Teaching Literature In The 21st-Century
From affording choice to anchoring year-long discussion of certain themes, here are strategies for teaching literature in the 21st century.
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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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How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder
For many teachers, how you have students organize their class binders says a lot about how you view the content.
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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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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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Kurt Vonnegut Describes The Shape Of A Story
Every story, Vonnegut playfully asserts, can be ‘shaped’ on a Y-axis of Good Fortune & Ill Fortune extended along the X-axis of Time.
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What To Read Next: 100 Timeless Books, Poems, And Essays
What should you read next? Consider Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World,’ Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ or Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Player Piano.’
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12 Literary Road Trips In A Single Map
12 Literary Road Trips In A Single Map by TeachThought Staff Richard Kreitner and Steven Melendez over at atlasobscura recently shared a map you might want to take a look at. The map–and its hand-typed notes–represent an enormous effort, and the selections themselves some mighty fine taste in recent literature. There are over 1500 entries on the…
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Redefining What It Means To Be Human In The Absence Of The Humanities
We increasingly need the humanities because technology requires us to know what information we need and the kinds of questions we should ask.
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What Students Often Misunderstand About Writing
Students are conditioned to believe that someone beyond their family or teacher will be automatically and genuinely interested in their ideas.
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The Difference Between An Initialism And An Acronym
What Is The Difference Between An Initialism And An Acronym? Initialisms and an acronyms are often confused, not so much that one is mistaken for another, but rather that initialisms aren’t usually named at all. To many, every series of letters (that function as initials) are called “acronyms.” The distinction, while primarily an academic distinction,…
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24 Entertaining Short Stories For Middle School
Middle school students are an interesting bunch of emerging identities, and a varied assortment of readiness, knowledge, and maturity.
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42 Idiom Examples And Explanations
This video from Mental Floss quickly goes through 42 idiom examples in video form, making it a great introduction for your students.
