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!How do we help junior and senior high students ask the deep questions about life, and–more importantly–answer those questions? […]

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Mike Miller’s Simile Generator is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. Press a button and it spits out two parts of a simile, the tenor and the vehicle. Students are left to supply the grounds of comparison. Here’s a quick review of those three parts, […]

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Two issues that students care deeply about are freedom and money.  They want to be independent and they want to buy more stuff.  One issue that’s usually low on their priority list is proofreading.  Here’s a little way to use the first two issues to make the third issue more of a priority.
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A picture can inspire a thousand words, and the following pictures are some of the most evocative and beautiful I’ve ever seen. Turn them into color overheads, or project them on a screen while playing some atmospheric music, and let students’ imaginations run wild for 15-20 minutes of free writing.
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