Teen Literacy Tips

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I’d also love to hear what you have to say, so please feel free to comment on any post. Thanks for visiting!Poetry isn’t dead, it’s just been beaten into submission. That seems to be the fear of poet Billy [...]

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Talk about “old school,” here’s a teacher training video from 1947 that gives pointers on how to manage a classroom. It’s fairly humorous, but I think it can also lead to valuable discussion. Try to disregard the “Leave it to Beaver” dialogue and focus on the points they’re trying to make. As [...]

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In their book Moving Forward With Literature Circles, Day, Spiegel, McLellan and Brown give a simple, effective way to help students learn how to choose their own books to read. They write that we should get students to move beyond choosing books based on the five-finger method, and instead “choose books based on skimming [...]

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In the wake of yesterday’s copyright weirdness, I thought today would be a good day to talk about using public domain literature in the classroom. I’ve put together a reading list (in case you haven’t noticed, I’m a list junkie) of books in the public domain that could be used in a junior high [...]

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Apparently I’m beginning to attract attention–and not the kind I was expecting. I was informed this afternoon that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have requested that my list of 300+ Recommended Books for Junior High Students be removed from Scribd because it violates copyright. I have absolutely no idea what [...]

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