I’m Deborah, author of this site and the resources you find here. I love sharing language arts teaching tips with educators, and you’ll find ideas and resources geared mainly to middle and high school students here. If you need help finding something, please use the contact form to get in touch. I’m glad to help.
I have been so busy traveling the last few weeks! I have not had a chance to settle down, but I do have a few minutes today! Vegas and Seattle! Let me tell you, I have been on an exciting adventure, with a couple of accidents along the way. Just
School is coming to an end and summer is just beginning! What are your kids going to do for fun? Going on trips, swimming at the pool or beach, visiting theme parks, summer camp, or vacation bible school? Video games, social media, television? Anyone plan to read some good books???
Yes, tomorrow is the last day of school with my kiddos this year. I can’t believe this year went by so fast! Today we watched National Velvet with Liz Taylor and Mickey Rooney and I bought them all Dunkin’ donuts! Tomorrow, we will play a game, do a summer wordsearch,
I haven’t been able to post anything in a while because I really caught some sort of nasty bug in early March, and it has been a real battle just to go to school every day which took almost all of my energy. I am still on antibiotics and still
We have been busy finishing our research on African Endangered animals, and I can’t wait to see this year’s brochures! However, that is not the only thing we have been doing, and it really amazes me how much my students are getting accomplished. At the pace we are going, it
Most of my students knew what a haiku poem was when I asked them this morning, but not a single one knew what a tanka poem was. Even my collaborating teacher had not heard of it. A tanka is a poem that is similar to a haiku. The first three
