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How to Avoid the Summer Slide with Summer Reading Challenges & One-Pager Projects

How to Avoid the Summer Slide with Summer Reading Challenges & One-Pager Projects

Summer has that way of magically erasing knowledge, so one way to prevent some of that summer slide is to engage students in summer reading through a summer reading challenge and also through one-pagers to help students interact, process, and analyze what they’re reading.

Motivating Struggling Students with These FIVE Apps to Support the Writing Process

Motivating Struggling Students with These FIVE Apps to Support the Writing Process

Oftentimes when people grimace at the thought of “English class,” it’s because of their haunting memories of failed writing assignments.  

Three High-Interest Writing Assignments to Motivate Struggling Writers

Three High-Interest Writing Assignments to Motivate Struggling Writers

Motivating struggling writers can be quite a challenge.  With struggling writers, it is important to create high-interest assignments that students will want to work on, assignments that they will want to put forth the effort on in order to succeed.  If struggling students are bored with a writing topic, they won’t be as invested in it and won’t want to put the time and effort in to make it the best it can be.