Kami's interface allows your students to highlight, underline, circle, and write text on any PDF. If you haven't already tried it, now is a great time to try Kami, a free web app that allows kids … [Read more...] about How to Make Any PDF into a Paperless Resource
Five FREE Activities You Can Use in Your ELA Classroom Tomorrow
1. Paired passages guide and practice passages Paired passages are an important part of standardized testing. Helping students respond to a set of related texts builds a lot of reading comprehension … [Read more...] about Five FREE Activities You Can Use in Your ELA Classroom Tomorrow
How I Quit Teaching to Travel the World
If you’ve been following me on Instagram (@readrelevant) you may have noticed that I’m not longer in the classroom. I’ve become a digital nomad: someone who works completely on a laptop and travels … [Read more...] about How I Quit Teaching to Travel the World
The Key to Motivating Kids to Write
It can be really hard to motivate kids to write. When students are reluctant to begin writing, I have found that the best way to motivate them is to provide choice. The components of … [Read more...] about The Key to Motivating Kids to Write
A #MeToo Story for Middle Schoolers
Barbara Dee’s Maybe He Just Likes You is one of the best, most important YA novels to be published in a long time. This novel focuses on seventh grader Mila, who suddenly find herself the center … [Read more...] about A #MeToo Story for Middle Schoolers
