The first day of school is the most important day of the year. Here are some ways you make students feel positive and welcome as they enter your classroom (followed by ten ways NOT to welcome your students):
Entries from August 6th, 2008
36 Ways to Welcome Your Students on the First Day of School
August 6th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Classroom Management, General, Humor, Teaching
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Great Neal Stephenson Anecdote for Writing Teachers
August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Writing
The Lifehacker site has a great story about how the writing process isn’t always as neat, orderly and sequential as we teachers sometimes portray it. The story would make a great anecdote for a teacher inservice on the writing process or for a mini-lesson on silencing the inner editor: How Neal Stephenson’s Typewriter Kept Him [...]
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Can You Write a Story Without Using the Letter E?
August 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Lessons, Writing
A lipogram is a type of word play whereby an author creates a piece of writing with a missing letter. One of the most famous lipograms is Ernest Vincent Wright’s 50,000 word story, Gadsby, which omits the letter E. For a fun way to engage students in writing and help them with the trait of [...]
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