What do we do after a student can identify the type of figurative language?
All AboutUpdating Old Questions
A series in which I look at my embarrassingly bad old questions and transform them into something more interesting!
Updating Old Questions: The Planets’ Order
Oops! I just asked my students to put the planets in order! Here’s what I could do differently…
Updating Old Questions: Volcano from Two Perspectives
Just because we have two perspectives doesn’t mean we have a great question!
Making Categories of Famous Structures
A task about famous structures that stops at the bottom of Bloom’s.
Updating Old Questions: Context Clues
Most context clue worksheets have incredibly low expectations.
Updating Old Questions: A Congress At School?
Let’s go beyond listing Congress’ powers and consider fairness if a school had a legislative branch.
A Playlist That Shows A Character’s Change
Here’s how I’d take one task from my choice board and focus on making it great!
Healthy Donuts!? Framing a Math Project with a Big Idea
Instead of jumping straight to calculations, what if we framed this math concept with a big idea?
Graphic Organizers Are Not Final Products
If you looked around my classrooms, you would have spotted a huge red flag hanging on my walls. No, not a literal red flag! But a major clue that I was limiting my students’ thinking. My walls were covered in students’ graphic organizers. Graphic Organizers Are A Scaffold But now I know that graphic organizers […]
Tweaks To A Character Study
A teacher sent me a sequence of questions about the story My Father’s Dragon. Based on what you’ve read so far, what is one word you could use to describe Elmer? What from the story made you choose this word? Think of other books you’ve read. What character from another story you know is similar […]