If you're looking for authentic reasons to encourage your students to go back into a text and find evidence to support their thinking, we hear you. Monologue takes the skill of finding evidence to a new level. It is a literary empowerment tool for students. Drafting a powerful monologue invites students to read across a set of texts that includes different sources about one subject in order to glean an understanding from multiple perspectives.

Why does storytelling matter? How does it benefit students? Here are some insights to how storytelling can help improve struggling readers and writers, and help create a positive classroom community.

March is Women’s History Month, and it’s a great time to celebrate women through time who have made a big difference in our world. However, every student is surrounded by women who make a difference in the world today. Here’s how you can encourage students to consider the importance of women’s contributions in their own world!

Do you allow your students to learn by playing in the classroom? Having fun and playing is motivating; students will pay closer attention for longer periods of time. This, of course, increases the likelihood that they will learn. Here are a few word-learning games that you can easily play with your students!