Teacher's Pet Studio Blog

Your class is reading a novel. Most of the kids are keeping up, but you have one Spanish-speaking student you really don't know how to help through this unit of study. You don't speak Spanish, and … read more

One of the most common questions I get asked is, "How long should a novel unit be?".  After writing literature lesson plans for almost 30 years, I'm still surprised at how each book always presen … read more

The key to teaching literature effectively is to see the books as a means to an end, not an end in themselves. If I thought the books were an end in themselves, I would have quit writing about them … read more

I hadn't read Fahrenheit 451 since I wrote the original LitPlan for it about 20 years ago, but I picked it up again not long ago to write a new edition of the LitPlan. Whether it's because I'm 20 year … read more

If you want a sterile, black-and-white dictionary definition of teaching, it is "imparting knowledge." In terms of teaching in K-12 classrooms where fast-paced, full-color lives meet education, teach … read more