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Middle and high school English teachers: use this pre-reading strategy to activate your students' prior knowledge so they can use it to understand character and theme as they read. Read all about it in the latest post by Room 213.

Panel discussions are a great way to engage students in meaningful classroom discussion. Get your free complete resource to run your own panel discussion!

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Want your students to have rich, complex conversations about the texts they read? This method leads to the kinds of classroom discussions you thought only happened in college.

High School Literature List - This is an extensive but certainly not exhaustive list of reading selections for high school. This first section focuses on American Literature.

I hate cheesy name games and I refuse to make the worst first impression by just reading a syllabus to my students. The solution is this engaging first day of school stations activity designed to facilitate discussion and help you start building a strong classroom community from Day One.UPDATE: This...

If you'd like to use learning stations in the your ELA classroom but don't know where to begin, this blog post has it covered.

How to scaffold literary analysis instruction for middle school and high school English language arts students.

Making Meaning with Melissa: My #1 Way to Reduce Grading Time and Increase Student Ownership - Save time grading essays with the ideas and tips presented at this blog post. Middle school & high school teachers will enjoy saving time grading papers. Students will be help more accountable and invested in their work. Click through for all the details. {6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade classroom or home school} Plus a FREE download!

Here's a look at nine of my favorite ELA activities from the last school year that you can incorporate into any middle school ELA or high school English classroom. #secondaryELA #middleschoolELA #highschoolEnglish

What is Literature? In this activity students explore this question by looking at not only novels and poems, but also songs, photos, and advertisements.

The Georgia Department of Education English Language Arts division has its very own Twitter account and has been hosting a weekly series this academic school year of “Twitter takeovers”…

How do teachers get students to talk about their reading in a meaningful way? As a high school English teacher, I have often been reluctant to let students lead their own book discussions. When I have tried book discussions in the past, students focused on the literal meanings of their books, usually recalling plot events; however, I wanted them to use critical thinking and to make inferences and relevant connections with their reading. Over the years, I’ve experimented with strategies that…

Give your students this great tool as they read their texts, so they can be active readers and critical thinkers. Let them make the inferences they need to make to understand the text, rather than passively waiting for you to direct them. I have also Included a short slide show to introduce close ...

Commentary, or analysis, is the most difficult part of writing a literary analysis essay. All other parts of essay writing have formulas to follow except commentary, which is why it is the most important skill to practice and master in essay writing. This blog explores a strategy to target commen

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