A few months into my first year of teaching middle-school English in Santa Fe, I realized that a handful of my students were not reading books. I had carefully structured the class time so there would ...

A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

Cathedral fifth-graders Mary-Thomas Edwards, Robert Martin and Aubrey Burnsed, plus ACCS student Maddie Guedon, advance to ...

From fantasy adventures to historical nonfiction, classrooms are filled with imagination and meaningful conversations about ...

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