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!My list of 300 Recommended Books for Junior High Students may have been erroneously removed from Scribd (see my [...]

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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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Wow! I looked at the download statistics for my Scribd documents and was amazed to see that 292 people viewed my unfinished Dead Poets Society Teaching Unit this month. I wonder how many people would view it if it were actually finished. Here’s a roundup of my top 5 documents, sorted by total number of [...]

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I’m always on the lookout for thought-provoking ideas in the form of quotes. I use them for bulletin boards, for classroom posters and to give to students for them to paraphrase and discuss. Here’s a short selection of quotes about reading for you to consider as you decorate your classroom:

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