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!This year I’m using a project-based approach to teach my eighth grade English class.  The students are in the [...]

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Clay Burell gives the think-aloud strategy a Web2.0 twist in a fascinating post at Beyond School. His AP students were struggling with answering a timed essay question, so Clay decided to write an essay himself and screencast it. In the first video he reads the poem and makes notations on the screen while thinking [...]

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How do you make sure that every student participates in a class discussion and no one student dominates? There are several different tricks teachers use: keeping track of responses on a clipboard, randomly pulling names out of a hat, to name two. But my favorite two ways are also my students’ favorites.

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(Cross posted at Literary Compass)
School is rapidly approaching, so my mind is starting to refocus itself on what I need to do to get ready to teach. This is the time of the summer that I start watching movies like Mr. Holland’s Opus to re-energize the teacher within.
In that spirit, I want to share with [...]

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If you have students doing Internet research at school, they probably have to write all their notes in a notebook to use them at home. Here’s an unbelievably easy way to take notes at school and access them at any other computer in the world:

In your browser’s address bar type the following: http://cl1p.net/anything, replacing [...]

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