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4 Reasons Your Child Needs Building Toys for Language and Creativity Development

By Monica Silva 13 Comments

Children-Need-Building-Toys Blocks

Building toys allow children opportunity for unscripted play which leads to language and creativity development. Monica Sharman shares 4 reasons your child needs building toys.

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

Common Core Picture Poems: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Common Core Picture Poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost featured

Engage with poems from the Common Core with a dose of humor, beginning with our Picture Poems. Today we consider Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall.”

Filed Under: Common Core Poems, English Teaching Resources, poetry teaching resources, Robert Frost

Understanding Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen’s Shin Bone

By Charity Singleton Craig 16 Comments

jane austen pride and prejudice

Why Mark Twain (and countless high school students) wants to dig up Jane Austen and find her shin bone. Love it or hate it, Pride and Prejudice still tops the charts.

Filed Under: Books, English Teaching Resources, Pride and Prejudice

Reading Ulysses: Mischief in the Woods

By L.L. Barkat 17 Comments

Reading Ulysses in Fall Woods

What can reading Ulysses in the woods teach us about changing education and throwing out the idea of homework? A whole lot.

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, Courage Poems, English Teaching Resources, Hero's Journey Poems, Humanity Poems, Incidentally, Read for Fun, Travel Poems

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poet Treasure Hunt in the Library (Callie’s Story)

By Callie Feyen 36 Comments

woman in red dress

How did you spend Take Your Poet to Work Day? We want to know. Like this, from Callie Feyen. What a marvelous, ticklish, soul-jazz way to spend the day!

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Libraries, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Make Your Own SAT Questions

By Sara Barkat 4 Comments

Desert Island Make Your Own SAT Question

SAT questions should test creativity and sense of humor. This one from Sara Barkat certainly does.

Filed Under: Blog, Education Humor, English Teaching Resources, Student Writing

Take Your Poet to Work: Langston Hughes

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Langston Hughes cover

Be the envy of your coworkers when you bring Langston Hughes to the office with you for Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 16. He’s our first poet of 2014.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, English Teaching Resources, Langston Hughes, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Revamping The Raven—and Other Writing Mischief

By L.L. Barkat 17 Comments

Edward Gorey with Raven Illustration

What does it mean to have a well-rounded writing approach? It might require a dog, a cup of tea, and Poe’s “The Raven.”

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, English Teaching Resources, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

How to Write a Poem: Jealous Poem Stacks

By L.L. Barkat 55 Comments

How to Write a Poem Sundial

English Teaching Resources: Poem stacks are good for starting something. Good for jealous days.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Blog, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a Poem, Mischief Café Ideas, Nature Poems, Poem Stacks, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

Top Ten Reasons We Dare You to Give an English Teacher “How to Read a Poem”

By Will Willingham 47 Comments

Give a teacher how to read a poem tweetspeakpoetry.com

We dare you to give “How to Read a Poem” to an English teacher. Here are our Top 10 reasons, plus a giveaway.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry teaching resources

English Teaching Resources: Incidentally, Yahtzee is an English Game

By L.L. Barkat

English Teaching Resources Language Arts Yahtzee

Yahtzee is not just a math game. No kidding. Consider using it in English class.

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

English Teaching Resources: Incidentally, that Play-Doh Could Prevent a Homicide

By L.L. Barkat 36 Comments

Play Doh English Teaching Resources Word Games

Play-Doh prevents violence? Yes, if it’s part of play. Use it in your English Teaching and create a better world.

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

English Teaching Resources: Incidentally, That Lego Could Earn You Six Figures

By L.L. Barkat 23 Comments

English teaching resources that include legos? Yes. That lego could earn you big money someday. Go ahead, play.

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

How to Read a Poem: The Book

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

How to Read a Poem Sunglasses

For the reader new to poetry, Runyan’s guide will open your senses to the combined craft and magic known as “poems”. For the well versed, if you will, the book might make you fall in love again.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, English Teaching Resources, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

English Teaching Resources: Incidentally, You Just Wrote for Three Hours

By L.L. Barkat 24 Comments

Eraser Dust English Teaching Resources

Our “Incidentally” column shares English Teaching Resources & opinions about the state of education, from a teacher who has worked the systems for almost 25 years. Today’s topic: teaching kids to write.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Incidentally

English Teaching Resources: Incidentally, That’s a Chiasmus

By L.L. Barkat

Umbrella Chiasmus English Teaching Resources

Our “Incidentally” column shares English Teaching Resources from a teacher who has worked the systems for almost 25 years. Up today? Chiasmus.

Filed Under: English Teaching Resources, Incidentally, Incidentally That's A, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, poetry teaching resources

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