by Kristin | Mar 20, 2024 | Reading Comprehension, Short Stories, Teaching the Standards
I LOVE survival shows! Sometimes these shows use professionals and skilled experts while others just throw someone on an island to see what happens 🙂 Not going to lie…these shows are hilarious. Now, I like to think if I were left alone in the woods to survive on...
by Kristin | Mar 13, 2024 | Poetry, Reading Comprehension, Teaching the Standards
As English teachers, we embrace the building blocks of literacy in all our study units. For example, with short stories, we focus on teaching plot elements to ensure our students’ comprehension, so they can ultimately deliver quality analysis. The same is true for...
by Kristin | Feb 28, 2024 | Reading Comprehension, Short Stories, Teaching the Standards
As teachers, we often think of how we were taught and either follow suit or go in a very different direction. In that way, it’s a bit like parenting, isn’t it? In both instances as times change, our approaches need to adapt as well. This idea is true in so many...
by Kristin | Feb 21, 2024 | Reading Comprehension, Teaching the Standards, Test Prep
The word “worksheet” has a bad rap nowadays. And honestly, I don’t really understand why. Worksheets simply have the “work” displayed on paper; they allow teachers to assess their students’ mastery of certain knowledge and/or...
by Kristin | Feb 14, 2024 | Rhetorical Analysis, Teaching the Standards, Writing
Rhetorical Analysis, on the surface, seems super complex and completely overwhelming, especially if you have never been exposed to it before. More often than not, when we ask students to write a rhetorical analysis of any text we are teaching, they might feel...
by Kristin | Feb 7, 2024 | Reading Comprehension, Teaching the Standards
If you have ever been a high school reading and comprehension teacher or an English teacher, you will know the struggle of teaching reading skills, standards, and texts to students. I know it might seem simple on the surface, but teachers nowadays have students who...
