Whether you are back to school full-time with social distancing measures, using blended learning, or creating fully distant classrooms, you’re…
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Reading Strategies: Get the Gist
Reading comprehension can be a struggle, especially if you are working with a particularly difficult text. Lately I have been…
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Vocabulary Strategies for Secondary Students: Alphaboxes
To Kill a Mockingbird is an incredibly vocabulary-heavy novel, especially for freshmen, so when I taught it last year and…
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Gratitude Activities for Students
November is always such a strange amalgam and while things can get difficult chugging along until Thanksgiving break, it is…
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5 Tips for Using a Book Tasting to Encourage Independent Reading
Conducting a Book Tasting is one of my favorite lessons of the year. It combines the things I love most…
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