Looking for teaching ideas on Shakespeare? Today we're going to cover 5 fast and easy tips for how to teach Shakespeare: sonnets edition. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know the awful rookie mistakes I made when first teaching Shakespeare...

Do your students have a genuine fear of test taking? Is it impacting their results or mental health? Check out this blogpost for 7 easy tips to help your students overcome test anxiety.

Teaching William Shakespeare’s sonnets is a great way to introduce Shakespeare to students because the texts are so short they are like a bite-sized introduction to Shakespeare.   It’s far easier to convince students to analyze something that’s only 14 lines long, as...

Do your students struggle to take notes? Are you looking for fast and easy ways of teaching students to take notes?  Then you’re in the right place. But before we begin, students may need some convincing that taking notes is a skill worth learning.  You may need to...

Managing study time is a difficult set of skills to learn - especially if nobody has ever taken the time to teach you. Many middle and high school teachers assume that students are being taught organizational skills at home (such as how to plan study time), but often...

Have you ever had that circular argument with your students about using class time wisely?  You know the kind. They have a paper or project due in a week. They haven’t done much about it. And they’re sitting in class goofing off, talking to their friends, and doing...

Have you heard the terms metacognitive skills or metacognitive strategy bandied about at work or in the staff room and wondered, hmmmm, what am I missing? If so, read on because in this post we’re going to look at what is metacognitive strategy and how you can use it...

It’s getting to that time of year again.  You know the time.  Students are bored and restless.  You are stressed and frantic with reporting.  And you all need a break!  Today I’m going to give you a break - I have some easy, low-to-no prep end-of-year activities for...

How to teach note-taking skills is one of those topics that just never seems to come up when you’re in university or college.  And it’s often one of those skills that fall off the radar when teachers are planning out their curriculum.  Or they get bumped from the plan...

Now, our previous post was about how to teach your students to do a literary analysis or critical analysis.  By now, you might be wondering if you can easily find a literary analysis practice worksheet to help your ELA students learn critical analysis skills.  I...