Poetry Pauses: Teaching With Poems to Elevate Student Writing in All Genres (Corwin Literacy) Amazon.com: Poetry Pauses: Teaching With Poems to Elevate Student Writing in All Genres (Corwin Literacy): 9781071889022: Vogelsinger, Brett: Books

There’s a nice little discount on Amazon for Poetry Pauses right now…just in time for April, #NationalPoetryMonth!

Or use code SAVE20 for 20% off at @corwinpress.bsky.social

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Helping Students Understand the Logic Behind Literary Analysis A high school teacher describes how she teaches her students that disciplinary literacy is more than ‘fancy’ vocabulary.

English teacher Elizabeth Galbreath provides a variety of linguistic frames and classroom discussion strategies that set students up for success when they’re being graded on their literary analysis. 📝

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Teaching Irony in Middle School With Picture Books Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

The trick to teaching middle schoolers irony? Picture books!

In her first article for Edutopia, educator Kim Howard explains how to use them. 📙📗📘

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Teaching Irony in Middle School With Picture Books Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

Surprise and engage your middle school students with a medium that is sure to be not only accessible but also memorable as they learn and apply their knowledge of irony! 📖

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Philosophical Chairs Brings Out the Passion in ELA Classrooms This low-prep, high-engagement activity prompts students to debate a question and critically examine their own and opposing positions.

When a neighboring teacher comes to see what all the excitement is about? That’s successful student engagement. 🏆

This activity is called “Philosophical Chairs,” and your students will keep requesting to do it.

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Philosophical Chairs Brings Out the Passion in ELA Classrooms This low-prep, high-engagement activity prompts students to debate a question and critically examine their own and opposing positions.

In the debate activity ”Philosophical Chairs,” students defend their position—or switch to the other side.

And yes, sometimes they stand on a chair to make a point. 🪑

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The Benefits of Collaborating With Your School Librarian Working with a peer to develop projects for your students can enrich your instruction and support student engagement.

Collaborating with your school librarian can be even more enriching when you design a literacy project around a shared interest! Find out how. 📕⬇️

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The Benefits of Collaborating With Your School Librarian Working with a peer to develop projects for your students can enrich your instruction and support student engagement.

“Some of the best literacy learning can happen through collaboration among colleagues and peers,” @wordsimagesworlds.bsky.social says.

Here’s how he teamed up with his school’s media specialist to design a powerful student project pairing graphic novels and research. 📖

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“Helping students think critically about literature doesn’t begin with a perfect anchor chart or a polished lesson plan. It begins with the questions we ask and the way we respond to students as they search for answers.” —Erin O’Dwyer, Middle School English Teacher

Tired of class discussions of novels falling flat? Try rethinking your questioning—starting with SEL: edut.to/4nuJ6Zj

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Adding an Emotional Dimension to Literary Analysis Aligning SEL prompts with different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy gives students the opportunity to ask deeper questions about literature.

Integrating SEL and Bloom’s taxonomy helped this ELA teacher bring her class conversations to life. 📖💬 Here’s how.

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Tips for modernizing Macbeth and more: edut.to/4nm7dt2

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AI Tool Demo: Creative Uses for ChatGPT in History and ELA Assistant editor Daniel Leonard shares a few interesting applications of ChatGPT that teachers have adopted to drive critical thinking and deeper analysis.

From history class to ELA, teachers are harnessing ChatGPT to drive critical thinking and deeper analysis. Here’s a brief demo on some innovative, teacher-tested use cases, from Edutopia’s @dalorleon.bsky.social 🖥️💫

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Modernizing Shakespeare With a Tech Twist Students can have fun and learn a lot by making some 21st-century linguistic and thematic tweaks to the Bard’s plays.

Adapting Shakespeare’s plays to make them resonate with students can be a fun, improvisational process that helps develop learners’ critical thinking skills! 🪶🎉

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English Language Arts resource collection from Edutopia. There's a screenshot of the webpage, which shows an article: “Responsive ELA Teaching Strategies.” A blue burst in the top right corner says “New content always added!”

When you need writing prompts, class activities, or evidence-based literacy strategies, our ELA resource collection has you covered. 📝

Explore articles and videos for all grade levels: edut.to/3EuwvDU

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After categorizing the children’s cards, students copied their own citations from articles into index cards and will sort them into categories. Those categories will become their persuasive essay paragraph topics.

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ELA teachers: You might want to *bookmark* our full *library* of ELA resources! 🔖 (They’re much higher quality than this joke.)

Check it out here: edut.to/3EuwvDU

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A Curation Project to End the School Year Teachers can give students a creative opportunity to use their analytical skills and make meaningful connections to different forms of media.

Looking for a meaningful, memorable end-of-year project?

Here’s an idea from @biblio-phile.bsky.social—with some inspiration from @heymrsbond.com, @ncte.org, and @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social. 💡

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Celebrate Earth Day with me by composing some ecopoems!
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A Curation Project to End the School Year Teachers can give students a creative opportunity to use their analytical skills and make meaningful connections to different forms of media.

This powerful project gets students flexing their creativity and analytical skills—as they make connections between their interests and course content. 💪

Teacher and Edutopia community facilitator @biblio-phile.bsky.social shares a guide.

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6 Ways to Upgrade Old-School Book Reports These creative alternatives to book reports can spark imaginations, boost comprehension, and reignite a love for reading.

Traditional book reports can stifle students’ passion for reading, ELA teachers tell us. 📖

Here are some of their favorite alternatives: edut.to/3DWOvGO

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6 Ways to Upgrade Old-School Book Reports These creative alternatives to book reports can spark imaginations, boost comprehension, and reignite a love for reading.

In 2025, ditch the dull book reports and try these engaging assessment strategies that can improve comprehension and ignite a passion for reading. 🤩📚

@dalorleon.bsky.social gathered 6 ideas from the Edutopia community:

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Apropos of reading a big ol’ stack of midterm essays: how are we rewarding risk-taking, growth, and experiments in student writing, even if, or especially if, it doesn’t fully work ? #ela #iteachela 📖.

And fuck yeah, that’s an old-fashioned paper gradebook you see there. I have a whole rant on the always-on gradebook and surveillance pedagogy that I will save for another day #iteachela 📖

It’s like coaching a sport: you wanna run game situations so the team is ready. We have the ball, tied game, one minute left, how do we kill the clock? How can you simulate pressure so we’re comfortable in it? #iteachela 📖

And i’ve worked hard to teach interesting and good writing. I’m seeing satures, narratives, thoughtful and nuanced takes, compressed into the timed test writing.

I try to NOT narrow this to test prep all the time.

At the same time, we want to simulate the test somewhat

#iteachela 📖

Large stack of paper copies of student essays, about 200 pages

The to-be-graded pile of essays. 8 oz glass of water for scale. The student work is about a 3-inch pile of about 250 pages

A pile of work in progress with my trademark pink grading pen

Whose brilliant fucking idea was it to give 82 juniors in AP English a practice test complete with 3 essays?

Oh. Mine. Fuck me.

Pictured: the collected works of my students, all approximately 500-ish pages, to be graded by Wednesday. (82 students.x 3 essays x average 2ish pages)

#iteachela 📖

⭐️ 7 things only English teachers understand!

What else would you add to this list?

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Photo of prompt/feedback sheet for AP English assignment. The prompt asks students to either a) operate like Deborah Tannen, shifting in and out of narrative and commentary to make an argument, or b) write ironically and hyperbolically, like Jonathan Swift, and adopt a persona while still clearly developing their own effective argument

A photo of a student’s last pragraph, driving home the satire. “Sure certain things were invented by accident, like penicillin, X-rays, and super glue…. But perfection matters the most, right? Someone was bound to come up with that sooner or later anyways. And that’s not what they were programmed to do in the first place. They couldn’t complete the task they were meaning to do and instead did something else. That’s too human. That’s too faulty.”

Some of the best, most interesting, most engaged writing in the AP Lang classroom is coming when I explicitly lower the stakes and encourage experimentation. The next step: how do we do all that cool shit even in more serious high stakes work? #iteachela #ela #aplang

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