Stress – what every teacher feels in December. Reducing holiday stress for teachers is a very important topic, but is often overlooked in the busyness of the season. Teachers everywhere look forward to their holiday break in December. Spending the Christmas season with friends and family helps get us through
During one of our weekly #2ndaryELA Twitter chats, we discussed Online Student Book Clubs. I first discovered this topic after seeing teacher-author Penny Kittle speak about them at the Reading For The Love Of It literacy conference in Toronto last February. Her discussion prompted me to go back to my classroom and
Using Mentor Texts and Sentences in the ELA classroom is a great way to help students’ enhance their work. Teachers in our weekly #2ndaryELA chat shared their best ideas for finding resources and using this strategy effectively in their classrooms. Read the curated Twitter chat below to gain more info
The holiday season can leave many people feeling stressed out – determined to have the perfect classroom, house, decorations, meal, etc. You name it and people feel that holidays are synonymous with perfection. My challenge to you this holiday season is to promote joy not only in your classroom
Holiday season lessons can be difficult to find. It is important that we enjoy the season with our students, but also maintain a rigorous curriculum program. I have compiled a list of classroom management tips and engaging holiday season lessons to help teachers and students enjoy the holiday season while
Several bloggers have gotten together to share our best Remembrance Day lessons that can be adapted to suit the needs of various grade levels. What I love about this link-up is the variety of lesson ideas offered by the other teachers. In our classrooms today, students are working at all
Close Reading and Text Annotations are great strategies to help students dig deeper into texts. Teachers shared their best advice on these topics: What close reading means to them How to select texts for close reading What types of assignments are good to practise close reading Paper and digital annotation
Students need to be exposed to a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts during their educational careers. It is important that teachers select high quality and engaging non-fiction pieces to compliment any fiction works covered in class. Through non-fiction reading, students build background knowledge about the world. When students have
By using highly-engaging rants, your students won’t even realize you’ve channeled their daily rants and complaints into high-quality, writing!
