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Category: Classroom Materials

2018…

#StayWoke: Empowering Students to Respond to Fake News by Mariah Morin & Heather Hurst

26 Apr 201827 Sep 2019
As my (Mariah's) own social media feeds were flooded with fake news and articles about fake news, my thoughts turned to students who must also be grappling with the tricky…
2018…

Centering LGBTQ People of Color with Young Adult Literature in Secondary ELA by Cody Miller & Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko

26 Apr 201827 Sep 2019
As English language arts teachers, we believe young adult literature offers an avenue for voices and experiences that are largely ignored by canonical texts. LGBTQ voices are among those omitted…
2018…

Centering Students’ Voices in a Public Speaking Genre Study by Burke Scarbrough

26 Apr 201827 Sep 2019
Today’s students have access to stirring, powerful text in an ever widening array of forms. As we invite our students to discover the power of the carefully crafted written word,…
2016…

Infographic-Making Activity by Michael MacBride

7 Jun 201627 Sep 2019
[pdf version here: MacBride-Infographic-activity] Objective: To encourage the use of charts, graphs, maps, and other infographics in student writing. Approximate Time Required: 30 minutes Materials Needed: A computer with access…
2016…

What Is a Civic-Minded Student and How Can We Foster This in Our Classrooms? by Heidi Burns

6 Jun 201627 Sep 2019
[pdf version here: Burns, Heidi--News Summary Activity] (Burns also has a new book forthcoming, which contains similar activities ready to plug into your classroom. Check it out here: http://amzn.to/1U4195g) Civic-minded students…
2016…

The “Write” Track: Effectively Leading Your School to Incorporate Writing in Every Classroom by Jennifer Simpson

12 May 201627 Sep 2019
[pdf version here: Simpson-TheWriteTrack] Currently, 42 states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity have adopted the Common Core State Standards (NGA).  Minnesota adopted…
2016…

Implementing Tabletop Gaming in the English Classroom: Promoting Literacy through Interactive Gameplay by Mike P. Cook, Ryan Morgan, & Matthew Gremo

2 May 201627 Sep 2019
[pdf version here: cook-implementing-tabletop-gaming-in-the-english-classroom]   Introduction Table-top gaming, at its core, is simply a term used to refer to any social game that is traditionally played in person around a…
2015…

Students Teaching Teachers to Teach Students by Michael MacBride

30 Apr 201527 Sep 2019
Every semester I tell my students that I learned from them, and I'm sure this is something that most teachers say, or at least think, at the end of the…
2015…

Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen: Unusual History of Censorship by Laura Cattrysse

30 Apr 201527 Sep 2019
[pdf version here: Cattrysse-Sendak’s In The Night Kitchen] Every child has their favorite fantasy book that mom and dad read every night five times before they can actually fall asleep.…
2014…

Daylight Savings Time Vocabulary in Context by Bill St. Martin

1 Apr 201427 Sep 2019
Daylight Savings Time Vocabulary in Context Bill St. Martin Irondale High School     Focus Composition                             Name ______________________________ Vocabulary In Context Building your Personal Thesaurus                              Hour _____________ Continue reading "Daylight…
2014…

Analyzing Poetry and Songs by Scott Hall

1 Apr 201427 Sep 2019
Find a song that has been recorded by several artists (at least 4) over the past 30-60 years (or re-recorded/re-mixed in a new style by the same artist). Listen to…
2014…

The Women of Beowulf and Student Responses by Kathryn Campbell

1 Apr 201427 Sep 2019
If you’ve ever taught an early British Literature text, you know that strong, multidimensional female characters are hard to come by. Take Beowulf, for example: women are only named after…
2014…

Promoting Literacy Outside the Classroom by Mitzi Watkins

30 Mar 201427 Sep 2019
“Ms. Watkins, my family and I took your book bag with us on our trip to Mexico, and we read the books in the car on our way there and…

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2020 Issue

  • Come on in! The Water’s Fine: School Reform Begins with Me by Sheryl Lain
  • Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: A Cautionary Tale of Totalitarian Ideology by Shahin Hossain
  • The Over-Simplified Guide to Creating Courses, Unit Plans, & Lessons by Jean Prokott
  • Becoming THAT Teacher—An Account of One Year of Teaching by Kasden Watson
  • #ReadingWars and Equity by Allison Sirovy
  • Fibonacci Spiral, or Why Four Middle Schoolers Are Enough by Sheryl Lain
  • “Cool” Theft: AAVE Appropriation as a Tool of White Hegemony by Anna Lehn
  • Didn’t I See That Before?: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado” Seen in Saw & Saw IV by T. Madison Peschock
  • Shoes, Rap Music, and Guns: Transitional Objects as Objective Correlatives in Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone by Tanya Stafsholt Miller
  • “It’s Not the Teacher’s Job”: Talking About Death and Death-Related Grief with Picture Books in Classrooms by Jongsun Wee and Heather J. Fye
  • What Matters in the Classroom? A Pre-Survey by Jean Prokott
  • Three Poems by Jean Prokott

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