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Valued and Validated: Making Time for Journaling
Valuing and validating your students’ voices is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. Here are four reasons responding to student journals should become part of your teaching practice.
Appalachian Studies
Contemporary Appalachian Literature: Collections & Anthologies for Your Classrooms and Curriculums
By Jessica Salfia With the new school year in full swing, I’ve seen teachers all over Facebook and Twitter sharing donors choose projects and Amazon Wish Lists filled with books for their classroom libraries and curriculums. As you continue buy books to diversify your classroom libraries, think about the ways Read more…
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My Reader’s Notebook: Making My Thinking Visible for My Students
By: Jessica Michael Bowman Since you’re spending your time perusing the WVCTE best practices blog, I have a hunch you’re probably a teacher of all things reading, writing, and thinking. I’d venture to guess you’re also a words person. I mean, it comes with the territory. If you are, you Read more…
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American Literature–going rogue
And we’re off….a new school year! That certainly was a quick summer (aren’t they all) and like many of you, I’m positive you spent some of it thinking, planning, thinking, planning and doing even more thinking and planning about this year. I’ve been thinking about my American Literature course and Read more…
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It’s Lit! Nonfiction Literature Circles (AKA 5 books you need to add to your summer stack)
I’ve experimented with literature circles off and on over the past 6 years. Some years, I’ve loved it. Sometimes, it drives me bonkers (I sometimes struggle with giving up classroom control). Using Literature circles is a balance between keeping kids accountable during their reading and making sure you don’t commit Read more…