High school reading

For most of us as English teachers, reading was a love-at-first-sight kind of experience, and while some of our students have that same natural love for reading, others simply have cold feet. Thankfully, it only takes a little creativity and the right reading activity for a love of reading to bloom. To foster this love

Do your high school students struggle to find books they can’t put down? Here are 31 student-approved books to read for high school that won’t disappoint!

Wanting to revamp your independent reading program? Try using a classroom book club, which is a great way to enrich, engage, and differentiate in secondary.

Lots of 5-⭐ books for your 12th grade reading list! The BES literature for your high school seniors to read!

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Teaching #reading Comprehension Strategies: Asking Questions QAR Strategy - Raise the Bar Reading

Motivate students with independent reading by adding engaging reading sprints...turn the traditional reading log upside down!

Using Micro Teaching--stories students can read in under 10 minutes--is a great way to introduce skills, techniques and so much more in high school English classes. For AP® Literature and all ELA classes 9-12.

Books every high-schooler should read before they graduate. These are some of the best books for teenagers and are a must for homeschool.

Wondering how to address gaps in reading comprehension with older students? Here are 8 important questions and answers from an expert.

A great blog of secondary English teachers helping you find great ideas to enhance your classroom!

What Reading Strategies Work In Every Content Area? by TeachThought Staff Reading is simply a sequence of symbol interpretation. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. By mastering the symbols and their most common contexts, reading becomes a practice in thought--less about decoding and more about understanding. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn't…

Let's do English ESL general reading comprehension. This reading is for adults and high school students, level A2 - B!. The students read the text about Artific…

Teaching struggling readers at the high school level? Scaffold their comprehension by focusing on these four important reading strategies.

My two daughters LOVE to read. However, they currently have a hard time remembering which books they have read, and what exactly happened in the books because they read through them so fast. We che…

You are sitting in that chair, starring to all your books wondering how you can get through the year. You feel desperate, you think you won’t handle the stress, the competition and you will s…

Book Talk For English Teachers and Other Lovers of Reading