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3 Theater Activities to Bring Students Fresh Realities

By Dana Kinsey 2 Comments

Buxton Opera House lit up at night

As students and teachers return to the classroom after the pandemic shutdowns, Dana Kinsey offers 3 interactive theatre scenarios to help regain their footing.

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

Teacher Stories—My First Villanelle (Thank You, How to Write a Form Poem!)

By Rebecca D. Martin 7 Comments

a blue bird in a tree with green leaves to highlight the villanelle and sonnet

So much is changing—has changed—in this world. Rebecca D. Martin finds a deep leaving-truth in her first villanelle and her first experience as a teacher.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a Form Poem, Sonnets, Villanelles

Poet-a-Day: Meet Ashley M. Jones

By Tania Runyan 13 Comments

Birmingham Skyline View From Quarry

What can the villanelle offer a poet? Ashley M. Jones has a suggestion—and a container for obsession or sorrow.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, English Teaching, How to Write a Form Poem, Poet-a-Day, poetry teaching resources, Villanelles, writer's group resources

Sun and Moon Poems: Night Poetry Prompt

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she confesses her fear of teaching Romeo and Juliet, and realizes there is much more to see than what she’s afraid of.

Filed Under: English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, Night Poems, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

Fun Reading Activities: Color & Trace “The Lady Mouse Has a Mandolin”

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Mandolin and mouse

Early readers Molly and Joe want to help a child learn to read. Learn fun facts about mandolins and take a spin writing a limerick, along with this fun reading activity coloring page.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, English Teaching, Literacy, Literacy Starts With Love, Molly and Joe Want to Know

“The Old Curiosity Shop:” Charles Dickens and a Road Trip!

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Trees The Old Curiosity Shop Road Trip

“The Old Curiosity Shop” by Charles Dickens, with some of the author’s most memorable characters, isn’t about a shop at all — it’s about a road trip.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Classic Books, English Teaching

Rediscovering “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Boy near water Great Expectations

“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens is one of his best and most beloved novels, one he initially described as “fine, new, and grotesque.”

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, English Teaching, Fiction, Literary Analysis, London

Reckless in the Library With Sight Word Baseball

By Callie Feyen 10 Comments

Bird Books and Baseball Sight Word Baseball Game

Reading teacher Callie Feyen has been curious if recklessness can be used to learn, or, perhaps more radically, if recklessness is in fact needed to learn. Watch out, then, for baseball in the library!

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, Language Arts, Teach It

Interview with an English Teacher, Pt 2: The Heroic in Literature

By Ann Kroeker 2 Comments

path through trees - Interview with an English Teacher, Pt 2

English teacher Diane Flint reflects on “the heroic” and “the hero’s journey” as a central theme taught in most English curricula.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources

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

William Wordsworth: “The Prelude” and the Poetry of Revision

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Lights in Field William Wordsworth

Some 24 manuscripts, dated from 1798 to 1839, exist for “The Prelude, ” the autobiographical poem by William Wordsworth; they show the poetry of revision.

Filed Under: Blog, Britain, English Teaching, poetry, Poets, William Wordsworth

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

By Joel Jacobson 16 Comments

Red and White flower-How to Write a Poem

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: 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

“Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide” by Mark Yakich

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Poet and teacher Mark Yakich takes a serious and irreverent look at reading and writing poetry in “Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide.”

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, English Teaching, How to Write a Poem, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry humor, poetry reviews, poetry teaching resources

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

A Month with Keats: Poetry, Religion and Politics

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Our Keats Walk in Hampstead in north London explores the poet and the political and (anti)religious influences on John Keats’ life and poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, John Keats, Literary Tour, Nature Poems, Ode Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets

Book Love: Of Tractors and Mockingbirds

By Ann Kroeker 28 Comments

I said my goal was for students to appreciate literature. Secretly, though, my goal was for the kids to love literature. I wanted them to experience book love.

Filed Under: Blog, Book Love, English Teaching

Poets and Poems: Hart Crane, “The Bridge” and Me

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Reading “The Bridge” by Hart Crane is an exploration into the love for the literature of Realism and Modernism – and the reasons for that love.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Books, English Teaching, Poets

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

Laura Inman and “The Poetic World of Emily Brontë”

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Emily Bronte Tweetspeak Poetry

“The Poetic World of Emily Brontë” by Laura Inman is a wonderful way to be introduced to her poetry, seen through the lens of her novel “Wuthering Heights”

Filed Under: book reviews, Classic Poetry, English Teaching, love poetry, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets

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