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Interview with an English Teacher, Pt 1: Texts and Teaching

By Ann Kroeker 6 Comments

buckeye - Interview with an English Teacher, Pt 1

Ann Kroeker interviews her high school English teacher, who reflects the heart of a guide—a mentor—for anyone who wants to help a student love literature.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources

How to Write an Acrostic Poem Infographic

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

How to Write an Acrostic Poem Infrographic

Our new infographic will teach you how to write an acrostic poem and have you writing poetry soup for every meal.

Filed Under: Acrostics, Education Humor, English Teaching Resources, Infographics, poetry teaching resources

How to Write a College Application Essay: Some Final Thoughts

By Tania Runyan 1 Comment

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Tania Runyan offers some final thoughts about maintaining perspective in this last installment of our series about writing a college application essay.

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

Take Your Poet to Work: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow cover

Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. For our final addition to our poet collection for 2016, meet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

How to Write a Poem in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Secret Tool

By Joel Jacobson 16 Comments

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High school English teacher Joel Jacobson shares his experience teaching a new advanced creative writing class using Tania Runyan’s How to Write a Poem. (Features student poems.)

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a Poem, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Student Writing

How to Write a College Application Essay: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

By Tania Runyan 5 Comments

Once a draft of the college application essay is written, now it’s time for revising, editing, and proofing. Tania Runyan explains how.

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Write a College Application Essay: Starting to Write

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

Tania Runyan uses a few familiar writing techniques to help students who are starting to write their college application essay.

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

Take Your Poet to Work: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - Elizabeth Barrett Browning featured

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Filed Under: Blog, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Teaching Resources, love poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

How to Write a College Application Essay: Choosing a Topic

By Tania Runyan 6 Comments

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Tania Runyan gives students an idea of the types of questions they may encounter when choosing a topic for their college application essay—including a list of the current Common App questions.

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Write a College Application Essay: A Closer Look at a Winning Application

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

This time, we’re going to take a look at how a young man made the most of my College Essay Yes-Yes’s in his own winning application.

Filed Under: Blog, College, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Write a College Application Essay: So What Kind of Writing Is This?

By Tania Runyan 6 Comments

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Tania Runyan offers guidelines for how to write a college application essay, including some no-no’s (and yes-yes’s).

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Write a College Application Essay: What’s it All About?

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

Teenage Blonds How to Write a College Essay

Amidst all the data surrounding grades and test scores and class ranking, Tania Runyan assures us the college essay is a chance to just be yourself. Isn’t that a relief?

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

The Joy of Poetry: As Much as She Could Carry

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

The Joy of Poetry Nancy Marie Davis Painting

Enjoy an excerpt of the newest title from T. S. Poetry Press, The Joy of Poetry: How to Keep, Save & Make Your Life with Poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, English Teaching Resources, Finding Inspiration, journey into poetry, poetry, Poetry for Life, poetry teaching resources, Popular Title!, Summer Read!, The Joy of Poetry, writer's group resources

Celebrating National Poetry Month: The Joy of Poetry

By T.S. Poetry 29 Comments

The Joy of Poetry Yellow Flowers

Besides all the free National Poetry Month gifts and inspirational invitations, we’ve got a surprise we can’t wait to share with you. The Joy of Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Finding Inspiration, journey into poetry, National Poetry Month, Poetry for Life, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

How to Write a College Application Essay: An Introduction

By Tania Runyan 9 Comments

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Introducing the How to Write a College Application Essay series, Tania Runyan assures us that poetry and personal statements aren’t too far off.

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

City and Country Prompt: Countryside Poems

By Heather Eure 61 Comments

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This week we journey to the country and explore countryside poems. Share your poetry with us and enjoy the idyllic peace and quiet of rural life.

Filed Under: Blog, City & Country, English Teaching Resources, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Building Minds: Block Play as a Writing, Thinking, and Math Tool

By Donna Falcone 18 Comments

Wooden Blocks Play as Language Booster

Through constructive block play—which is actually a form of story-making—children use their hands and bodies to build their minds.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, Play

The Literary Epic: Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 1 Comment

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Come along on an exploration of the literary epic and find out why Virgil made us readers. Remember to pack your prompt-writing pencil!

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Epic Poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Epic Poetry: The Simile Prompt

By Heather Eure 13 Comments

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Join us for this week’s prompt as we explore the nature of simile and its use in epic poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Epic Poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Epic Poetry: Invocation of the Muse Prompt

By Heather Eure 20 Comments

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Seek and find your muse and bring her along to inspire a poem. What’s a muse? How do you invoke one like the Greeks did? Homer shows the way.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Epic Poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

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