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!Notre Dame football players had Knute Rockne–Dallas, Texas teachers have Dalton Sherman. Just what you need at the beginning [...]

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I’m not convinced that they’re all real, but if you’re looking for a good laugh (and who isn’t), then check out the list of funny metaphors used in high school essays from Help.com. A few of my favorites:

“She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room temperature [...]

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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):

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Digital whiteboards like the ones made by Smartboard can be very handy in a classroom, but they’re also heavy on the budget, costing well over $2000. If you already have access to an LCD projector, Johnny Chung Lee shows you how to make your own interactive whiteboard for under $60 using a Wii remote [...]

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It’s true, I love diagramming sentences, and I teach students how to diagram sentences–which is probably enough to get me kicked out of most professional English teacher organizations–if I belonged to any (which I don’t).
But for you rebels out there who subservisely sneak diagramming into your curriculum between studying for state and national tests, here [...]

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