Distance Learning Community Building Activities for Middle and High School
836SHAREShare Tweet Pin It Amanda Write Now · 15 Community Building Distance Learning Activities Middle Schoolers Will LOVE! Students in our class need to feel that their unique voices, opinions, and experiences matter. In this article, you’ll get...
Your First Mini Lesson of the School Year: How Workshop is Like Playing Fortnite Battle Royale
665SHAREShare Tweet Pin It There are so many things we need to accomplish the first week of school. We need to get to the content but we also need to teach students about how our class will run and build relationships and community too. Now you may feel...
5 Fun Activities to do with Your Students the Day After Coming Back from a Long Break
2.9kSharesShare Tweet Pin It Don’t have time to read? Listen to this post here… Coming back to school after having two weeks off (or the summer off) can be really rough for students and teachers. The last thing anyone wants to do is...
5 Super Fun, Simple Games to Play with Your Class…Whenever!
1.6kSharesShare Tweet Pin It Sometimes we just need to have fun with our students and what better way than with simple classroom games? Having fun is important for many reasons some of which include: it builds community, it’s a stress reliever, it...
What I’m doing the very first day of school might surprise you…and why you should try it too.
1kSHAREShare Tweet Pin It I let students socialize the first day of school. Read on to find out why… After reading this important article by Write On with Miss G (which I highly recommend you read), I thought back to my first day of school, last...
10 Reasons Secondary Teachers Should Try Reading & Writing Workshop
1.3kSHAREShare Tweet Pin It Don’t have time to read this article? Listen on iTunes instead! We all have our own curriculum, our own teaching teams, our own way of doing things but it’s summer vacation and time to ponder other options! This...
My Students Don’t Write During Writing
901SHAREShare Tweet Pin It Don’t have time to read all of this?!?! Listen below:) So, some of your students aren’t writing during writing? Maybe they are just sitting there staring off into space. Or maybe they are sneaking onto their phone,...
Launching Writing Workshop: The First 14 Days
6.2kSHAREShare Tweet Pin It This blog post outlines exactly what I did to launch both reading and writing workshop in my classroom. If you are an English teacher wanting to teach using the writing and reading workshop model,...
10 Ways to Use PowToon in the English Classroom
2.8kSHAREShare Tweet Pin It PowToon is a fun and fairly easy video creation tool for teachers and students. The company already has an excellent blog post about how teachers can utilize this tool in their classrooms here. This blog post is about how...