The Benefits of Reading Aloud to Middle School Students
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Nov 30, 2023 When you think of reading aloud, you might picture a teacher in a primary school classroom reading a picture book to a group of wide-eyed…
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By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Nov 30, 2023 When you think of reading aloud, you might picture a teacher in a primary school classroom reading a picture book to a group of wide-eyed…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Jan 10, 2024 The Hunger Games Teaching Ideas With a fast paced story line, engaging characters, and a much loved movie adaptation, The Hunger Games continues to be…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Nov 28, 2023 Members of the Creative Classroom Core Community already know how passionate I am about teaching novel studies. I truly believe that the novel study is…
Building engagement for your upcoming novel study is a crucially important but daunting task. Creating classroom “buzz” about the new book you are about to read helps to build anticipation…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Feb 9, 2024 Teaching Freak the Mighty Teacher friends who have been following me on the blog for a while know how passionate I am about the powerful…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Feb 20, 2024 Island of the Blue Dolphins has long been a favorite novel of mine. I have happy memories of sharing the story with my older sister, who…