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Students only have four years in high school English to learn and master so many skills that will help prepare them for college and life after high school. When students leave high school, we hope their English classes have taught them to think critically about what they read and be proficient in writing. Here are 10 must-teach high school English lessons

Begin each of your classes with bell ringers or warm up activities that your middle or high school English students will love!

Using Micro Teaching--stories students can read in under 10 minutes--is a great way to introduce skills, techniques and so much more in high school English classes. For AP® Literature and all ELA classes 9-12.

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5 creative first day of school activities for high school English so you can ditch the syllabus and start getting to know your students!

Now that the 2017-2018 school year has come to a close, I am spending some time reflecting on my practice as an educator. While there were some lows of the

Find the best short stories for high school to incorporate into your English classes to cover a variety of standards and discussion topics.

If you are a high school English teacher you know that the first week back to school is critical for establishing classroom routines, setting expectations, developing norms, and getting to know your students. You also need to get into some meaningful content! This is every lesson you need for that first week of school! I walk you through how to establish a safe place of learning, how to create classroom norms, and what content your students will be most successful with that first week of…

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Do you want more student engagement in your classroom? Try these ides from Room 213. Her strategies will help you create a climate of engagement & learning.

Are you looking for THE BEST bell ringers for high school English? Get your students excited to start class by...

I’ve been starting to play around a little bit with my curriculum/ course-framework for next year and thought some of you might enjoy seeing how I organize my year. I’ll be sharing ninth grade English today, and – hopefully – tenth & eleventh grade/ AP Language and Composition in the future. First, though, here are...Read More »

Your students are really struggling with their grammar, but where do you even begin? How do you sequence grammar instruction when your students are all over the place? This blog post offers a suggested sequence of grammar topics with tips on what you can and should skip. Click now to quickly map out your grammar lessons today! #itslitteaching #highschoolenglish #secondaryela #grammar

Working on balancing reading and writing in your ELA classroom? Here are some specific approaches that will help you tie them together.

One of the most important goals of any English class should be to help students learn how to express themselves to an audience -- how to tell their own stories, how to provide much-needed information, and how to convince others to see things from a different perspective. Below are some…

5 Back to School Units for High School English that you really can use at any point during the year. Units that can help you recreate...

This past school year was a great one. With every school year that passes, I like to take a moment and reflect on activities that were successful in the