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As a teacher, I didn't know how to ask questions well! I had basically no training. But I asked hundreds each day. Now, I'm renovating my embarrassingly bad old questions!



Going Beyond “Name That Genre!”

What can we do once students correctly identify a story’s genre?

Improving Identify the Figurative Language

What do we do after a student can identify the type of figurative language?

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.

Practice Context Clues with Classics

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?

Upgrading A Research Report

So many “research reports” are really just “regurgitation re-writes.” Here’s one way to take a research report to a much more interesting level.

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