Introducing Texts with picture books to all grade levels

Teaching picture books to middle school is not as “babyish” as you think. The students love them. It is all in how you present them.  Students tend to love the visually appealing texts and make connections that they might not as easily with delving into a novel. Introducing a novel with a picture book is aContinue reading “Introducing Texts with picture books to all grade levels”

Introducing texts with song lyrics-Motivating students to make real world connections

There are so many possibilities here, it will take several posts to get an overall true picture of how fruitful adding song lyrics to your introduction sets inside lesson plans will gain you. So let’s get to it. Let’s start with the name of the theme for the unit and/or the essential question. Let’s chooseContinue reading “Introducing texts with song lyrics-Motivating students to make real world connections”

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