Category: Teaching Tip
-
Choosing the Best Evidence
For Reading Informational Standard 8, Essay Writing, and Part B Questions Are your students struggling with choosing the best evidence to support their points or answers? It may be because we are teaching it backwards. You know how when we write a paragraph the topic sentence goes first and then…
-
If Taylor Swift’s Hits were a Book List
Reading any of these books? Now you have an excuse to listen to Taylor Swift with your class! Who’s excited to see Taylor Swift’s movie that comes out this Friday?? As I was listening to her set list to prepare myself, books with similar themes kept coming to mind. It…
-
Summary Bar Graph
My favorite strategy to teach summarization! You know how the standards are a numbered list? Besides being helpful for citing, the standards are ordered intentionally. You can’t do any of the other standards until the students understand what the text is saying (Reading Standard 1). Summary bar graph from a…
-
The Writing Process Explained in Memes
I know that poster you got from the teacher supply store ten years ago (before it too went the way of the Blockbuster) has the writing process formatted as a numbered list. However, the writing process is inherently recursive. It’s a generalized process of common steps that authors take while…
-
ChatGPT? Might As Well
A friend of mine who is a college professor recently told me this story: Two of her students turned in nearly identical essays. When accused of plagiarism they were both shocked and claimed it was impossible. The two students did not know each other and had never met. The culprit?…