by Kristin | May 2, 2023 | Short Stories, Reading Comprehension, Teaching the Standards
Competing with students’ love of all things technology can be difficult, particularly in middle school English. As a result, finding ways to hook these young readers becomes imperative. Enter short stories for middle schools, especially short stories with twists! ...
by Kristin | Apr 25, 2023 | Reading Comprehension, Teaching the Standards, Writing
Getting ready to practice for standardized tests coming up? In the months of February through May, standardized tests flood the American school system like the plague. Today, students take more standardized tests than in any other period in history. My parents who...
by Kristin | Apr 18, 2023 | Reading Comprehension, Teaching the Standards, Writing
Teaching with films can be a highly controversial activity in education. Even though people nowadays consume more movies and videos than any other form of media, we rarely consider them valid forms of literature. And this perception is unfortunate. So many of us watch...
by Kristin | Apr 11, 2023 | Reading Comprehension, Test Prep
Let’s be real. Standardized testing is here to stay, at least for a while anyway. We cannot escape standardized tests, especially if we are ELA and/or Reading Teachers. Now, I know we all are thinking the following: What reading strategies can we realistically...
by Kristin | Apr 4, 2023 | Reading Comprehension, Teaching the Standards
No one goes into teaching thinking “I can’t wait to help my students with reading comprehension testing.” Yet it is one of the necessary, and I do say necessary, parts of teaching English language arts and reading. Teachers cannot escape some sort of...
by Kristin | Mar 28, 2023 | Short Stories, Reading Comprehension, Teaching the Standards
The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has challenged readers over the last hundred and fifty years; however, when we think of Poe, we might first think of his short stories. Eerie and suspenseful, Poe’s most taught stories include “The Tell-Tale Heart,”...
