English teachers: How might we choose great poems for teaching? Here's a short🧵on that with some linked examples and free resource! If enough folx add to this list, I'll compile results like I did with short stories. First, Stephen Minot points out that rather than try to decide if a poem is "good" or not, we should consider whether it is complex (example below). As teachers, then, part of choosing poems for class means deciding if they introduce complexities we'd like our students to study.

English teachers: In this🧵, I'll share some research & articles to convince you genre matters more than you think it does, regardless of grade span. AND if you read to the end, I'll share a free resource to help you take action! Take 5 mins & join me!... #literacy #teamenglish ...Let's wade in slowly — with some Renaissance Art! Check out this painting from Giuseppe Arcimboldo: an upside-down fruit bowl almost immediately looks like a face to us: something called "pareidolia." Our brains are trained to see it based on our experience. (cool, right?)…

English teachers: I’ve seen a number of requests for stories that could be read & discussed within a *single* class period. So, let’s do a fast 🧵. I’ll share a linked story with a possible discussion Q, imagining the following thumbnail lesson plan for secondary English… … 1) start w/an opening activity that asks s’s to retrieve relevant knowledge 2) s’s read/annotate, jot their own q’s & answer the discussion prompt 3) turn&talk in partners or sm groups, then class discourse 4) s’s “stamp” takeaways/connections to their lives & current study…

Here are some other things I’d want a new-to-research teacher to check out. (I’ll keep this to short, free stuff that is super accessible, so no books.) I already shared 1, so we’ll start from there…🧵

https://twitter.com/SteveChiger/status/1607744191584403456

…This classic article on study methods by Dunlosky. Recent meta-analyses have demonstrated similar findings. Here’s a gateway to thinking about spacing and retrieval. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ102… …