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What Are The Best Novels In Verse For Middle…
Novels written in verse typically rely heavily on dialogue, emotion, and themes of identity–the latter of which are relevant to YA readers.
How To Create More Authentic Writing Assignments For Students
To create authentic writing assignments, you should have a clear purpose & resistant audience in mind — one students must work to…
12 Of The Best Digital Tools And Rhyming Dictionaries…
These 12 rhyming dictionaries and tools can help you find rhyming words, synonyms, and other forms of creative wordplay.
How Twitter Can Help Students Write Better Thesis Statements
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…
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…
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
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
From affording choice to anchoring year-long discussion of certain themes, here are strategies for teaching literature in the 21st century.