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 birthday came and went about a week ago, and my family got me a new iPod classic that [...]

[Read more →]

The Florida Center for Instructional Technology has created A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, a comprehensive set of resources for teaching students about the holocaust.  If you teach books like Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,  The Book Thief, Number the Stars, or Night, then A Teacher’s Guide to Holocaust is an Internet resource [...]

[Read more →]

A colleague of mine just sent me a link to a great literature resource from Florida’s Educational Technology Clearninghouse–Lit2G0: MP3 Stories and Poems. The Clearinghouse is providing free downloads of classic public domain texts.

[Read more →]

She’s not only the Queen of Grammar, but Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty is now also the Queen of Educational Podcasts. The 2007 Podcast Awards were held in Ontario, California last week and Fogarty’s Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing took home the honors for Best Education Podcast.

[Read more →]

Download these free rubrics to help you assess students in your literature classroom.  Each link will send you to a page at Scribd where you can download the rubric as a Word or PDF document.  Feel free to edit them as you need, and you have my permission to photocopy them for your students and [...]

[Read more →]