English Language Arts

Five easy-to-implement strategies to make poetry writing accessible and fun for all students.

A high school history teacher demonstrates the writing process for students by composing and editing an article while they observe.

A classroom activity for sharing the work of living poets shows students that poetry isn’t a thing of the past. 

A Title I school in the Bronx is dramatically improving student outcomes—one book at a time.

Suggestions from teachers who are working to offer students at every grade level book choices that represent their lives.

The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students. Although we can't entirely solve the time problem, we can mitigate it by carefully analyzing our use of class time.

Ideas for scaffolding paraphrasing so that students correctly learn this valuable but difficult-to-master skill.

Use these novels to teach learning from loss and overcoming adversity to your middle schoolers and high school freshmen.

Sometimes students need a little push to activate their imaginations.

Students take responsibility for their learning and develop solutions for complex problems when their research paper becomes a PBL unit.

In an excerpt from his book with fellow teacher Katie Hull Sypnieski, blogger Larry Ferlazzo looks at a few basic ways to reach students who are learning English as well as the subject at hand.

Women have often been omitted from histories, but the work of female poets can give students a needed perspective.

Round Robin Reading (RRR) has been a classroom staple for over 200 years and an activity that over half of K-8 teachers report using in one of its many forms, despite overwhelming criticism that the practice is ineffective for its stated purpose: enhancing fluency, word decoding, and comprehension.

Connecting the novel The Outsiders to an anti-bias framework helps middle school students examine their biases.