Dos and Don’ts of Choosing Literature to Teach to Teenagers
How do you pick a book for your students to read as a whole class? I’m fortunate enough to work in a school where I have the flexibility to change titles each year if...
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What Can Grocery Stores Teach Us about Teen Literacy?
When I was in college, my summer job one year was restocking shelves for a grocery store in Billings, Montana. I worked the graveyard shift, from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., unloading pallets of...
The 6 Qualities of Great Teen Readers
What is teen literacy? What are we after when we say we want our adolescents to be more literate? What is the aim of teaching teens to read? Literate teens are: Fluent readers: Teen...
5 Reasons to Start Your School Year with “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov
How do you start the year in your literature class? One of the first stories I have my eighth graders read is “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov. It is a perfect story to start...
