A Fresh Look at Final Exams
A Fresh Look at Final Exams by Megan Hyland As we begin the month of May, and start to think about the end of the school year (gulp!), it’s hard […]
A Fresh Look at Final Exams by Megan Hyland As we begin the month of May, and start to think about the end of the school year (gulp!), it’s hard […]
How Do You Eat an Elephant? Preparing for PARCC Writing, Part 1 by Megan Hyland This year, our students in grades 5-8 will take the PARCC exams in both English Language […]
What’s In a Word? On Vocabulary Instruction by Kathleen Stern As a middle school reading teacher, I constantly find myself thinking, “If my students knew the meaning of more words, they […]
Make Your Students “Poetry Geniuses”! by Abi Frost I recently discovered a web resource called “rap genius”. This Brooklyn-based startup allows users to explore and understand the meaning behind […]
Visuals and Reading by Kathleen Stern Over the last few years in my seventh grade reading class, I’ve asked students to do more visual analysis and creation. This has nothing […]