Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
Books to Read, Love, and Share: Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed In Love, Hate and…
February 13, 2018
Books to Read, Love, and Share: Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed In Love, Hate and…
February 13, 2018
Books to Read, Love, and Share: Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust In Girls Made…
February 9, 2018
Using Staged Readings in ELA It’s no secret that I love using drama in the ELA classroom,…
February 6, 2018
Books to Read, Love, and Share: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert In The Hazel Wood, Alice and…
January 29, 2018
How to Make a Book Tree A book tree is a great holiday decoration for nerds and English…
December 5, 2017
WIN Your Teacher Wish List! What’s on your classroom wishlist? What are your favorite teacher things? Do…
December 2, 2017
Hello, friends! I’m here today to announce a big dream: I want to read the world. I plan…
November 28, 2017
5-Minute Filler Activities for Secondary ELA Although I’m getting pretty good at gauging time in my classes,…
November 21, 2017
How to Make Book Recommendations for Teens One of my favorite parts of talking about books with students…
November 14, 2017
Hi, everyone! In my post this week at the Secondary English Coffee Shop, I talk about how to…
November 7, 2017
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood by Christopher Emdin In For White Folks Who Teach in…
November 2, 2017
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon is a careful, thought-provoking portrait of the aftermath of a shooting,…
October 3, 2017
Plot, structure, characterization, allusions, foreshadowing… all of the things we work to teach our students are found in…
September 12, 2017
Need a new pick for your classroom library? Check out The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy. After the death…
September 5, 2017
You gingerly lift a new arrival off the shelf and flip it open, trailing your finger across the…
August 29, 2017
How would you like to chat with an author whose work you love? Well, your students definitely would,…
August 22, 2017
I love using Interactive Notebooks in high school and sharing this love with others. Still, the number one…
August 15, 2017
Want to expose students to new songs, or make them think about old songs in a completely new…
August 8, 2017
Unreliable narrators in YA Lit abound, and novels with these characters make great additions to your classroom library.…
July 31, 2017
It can be isolating being a teacher. Maybe you’re the only one teaching Romeo & Juliet in your…
July 19, 2017
The clock is ticking down and you can’t find the blacklight clue that will lead you to the…
July 10, 2017
Now, let’s talk about the best part of doing a class play: the performance! This is the fourth…
May 30, 2017
I love independent reading (or student-selected reading), and I love talking about books! It only makes good sense…
May 16, 2017
I’ve teamed up with some amazing teachers to bring you free end of year gifts for secondary students.…
May 15, 2017
If you love the idea of assigning differentiated research projects, but find the actual research process daunting, then…
May 2, 2017
When you sit down to plan your lessons for the day, week, or year, you don’t want to…
April 24, 2017
I’ve talked before about why I stopped writing on student papers, but today I want to talk about…
April 18, 2017
Every year, I surprise my students by using pop culture in ELA. They act surprised at first and…
April 4, 2017
I love poetry, and I always want to share that love of poetry with students. Last year, I…
March 21, 2017
Public Speaking is an important skill for middle schoolers and high schoolers to develop, and some of them…
March 7, 2017