I was recently looking back at my goals for the 2015-2016 school year, and one was to embrace some elementary teaching methods in my second...

I LOVE POETRY! I love to read it, write it, and teach it, and above all, I want my students to love it too! In order for them to love it, however, they have to understand it. I've always had a difficult time getting students to think deeply when it comes to poetry analysis, so I decided to develop a new process this year to help them practice. I ended up with a seven step process. To practice, I put together a packet of six of my personal favorite poems. We went through the packet together…

How to Annotate Text | Piktochart Visual Editor

As Language Arts teachers we want students to be good readers and also love reading. However, for a lot of students annotation kills the love of reading.

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