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Instruction and assessment are at the heart of good teaching. While state standards and district mandates seem to drive a lot of classroom time, it’s really student needs, goals, and interests that help expert teachers choose instructional strategies to support student growth and achievement.

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20 Tortured Poets for Your High School English Classroom

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5 Underrated Instructional Strategies for All Content Areas

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How to Create an Engaging Test Prep Olympics

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How to Teach Active and Passive Voice in 6 Easy Steps

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4 Easy Discussion Strategies for High School ELA

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5 Activities to Ring in the New Year with Your Students

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My 10 Favorite Language Arts Lessons of the Year

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Surprising Lessons from Building My First Escape Room

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Everything You Need To Teach American Literary Movements

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How to Make the Most of Teaching Irony

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13 Quick Tools for Teaching Sonnets in High School ELA

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8 Fresh, Fun Ways to Teach Research Skills

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How to Teach Tone in High School ELA

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6 Great Ways to Use Gallery Walks in Language Arts

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3 Simple Strategies for Teaching Satire in High School ELA

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6 Fun, Easy Tools for Teaching Figurative Language and Literary Devices

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8 Poems for Introducing Post-Modernism in High School ELA

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Everything You Need to Teach Literary Modernism in High School English