Give your students six options to create graphic organizers and track the patterns, topics, and motifs of a poem, short story, novel, or play. Posters are a great way to get students out of their seats by collaborating, presenting, organizing their ideas and quotes.

Learn five techniques that will help you teach The Bard.

Reading blocks held during class time may help students read challenging novels.

Let's think about how to get kids off their phone and tuned into the conversation.

Here is my list of 9 contemporary novels to teach in high school.

Students can present their thoughts in front of the entire class or they can record an interview by using their phone or computer. Here are three types of interviews and conversations that students can record.

If we want students to read and do the work, they need to constantly be in the process of meaning-making. Here are three ways I try to make things meaningful for my students.

Your students will love studying Serial, Season 1 with Sarah Koenig because it's real and relevant.

Give your students options when assigning a podcast. I'll review some techniques that will make creating a podcast easy.

There are a lot of things to consider when asking students to close read a passage in a novel. Learn some fun activities I do to make it manageable.