Add Color By Using Poetry in Your (Winter) ELA Classroom
February 13, 2022
We are deep into winter and where I live the sun is only making occasional appearances. As we know, this lack of sun can take its toll on us as
We are deep into winter and where I live the sun is only making occasional appearances. As we know, this lack of sun can take its toll on us as
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If you, like me, love to use short stories in ELA then here’s an added option for you – short, short films for ELA! Here are twelve short films for
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I just finished reading Dave Grohl’s The Storyteller, an offshoot of an Instagram account he started in 2020. On the heels of that I listened to Virginia Hanlon Grohl’s (Dave’s
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