Years ago, my friend Kim Parker recommended I share my “back catalogue” of all the writing and thinking I’ve done about teaching here on my blog and elsewhere. I finally got around to it and have tried to organize it in a way that might be helpful for teachers.
While some posts may be several years old, most are strategies that I still use or adapt for today (Note: I would most definitely switch out some of the mentor texts I used in the past). Not surprisingly, as I was putting this together (August 2023), I realized how many of the things I write about in Get Free have their roots in my back catalogue.
On nurturing (independent) reading . . .
- How I made time for reading . . . and had one of my best years ever (Part 1)
- How I made time for reading . . . and had one of the best years ever (Part 2: The Power of Booktalks)
- How I made time for reading . . . and had one of the best years ever (Part 3: A Weekly Framework)
- If You Build It, They Will Come: The Classroom Library
- A Labor of (Book) Love, The Classroom Library
- How do we challenge our students—and ourselves—as readers?
- Reading Challenges (visualized)
- Time to Re-evaluate: Why summer reading?
- A Year in Our Reading Lives: An Infographic
- How Do We Build Our Students’ Readerly Lives? (Read-a-Thon)
On analysis and critical thinking . . .
- How can we get students to re-read? Second Draft Reading
- Leaning into Difficult Topics: Toward an Informed Stance
- Using Listicles for Literary Analysis
- What does “compassion” really mean?
- From Book Love to Book Action
- Fearless Reading (and Analysis)
- Self-Reflection, Identity as a Path to Critical Inquiry
- Teaching Argument in a World of Alternative Facts
- March Madness: Determining Significance
- Getting out of the way: A line of argument
- Getting out of the way: EdCamp-inspired discussion
- Making Thinking Visible: Initial Thoughts
- Steps Toward an Inquiry-based Classroom (Monologic v. Dialogic, Questioning Circles)
- Letting Go (and Getting Students to Do the Talking)
- “3 Tips for AP Lang Test Prep”
On writing authentically . . .
- Discovering a Writing Process that Works (Six Traits)
- Argument in the Wild: Reading & Writing from Media-Rich Texts
- 3 Favorite Writer’s Notebook Prompts
- Prewriting Using Modes
- Conferring as Prewriting
- Never a Day without a Line… Or a Word (Word Projects)
- How to Embed Conversations: Another Micro-progression
- Virtual Anchor Charts Meet “Micro-progressions”
- On the Need for Peer Response
- Write Beside Them: Effective Peer Response
- Making it Manageable: Feedback at Every Step
- Ask Moving Writers: In Pursuit of Meaningful Feedback
- Mentor Texts
- Beyond Traditional (5-Paragraph) Essays
- Writing in the Wild: Beyond the 5-Paragraph Essay
- “Teachable Alternatives” to the 5-Paragraph Essay
- Structure as Mentor Text: How Can We Organize Ideas Beyond the 5-Paragraph Essay? (or what I call the CFC approach, a student favorite)
- To Blog or Not to Blog: Blog!
- What Are You Working On? (How I set up writing workshop in HS)
- Writing as Questioning and Choosing
- What Does Real-World Writing Look Like?
- Building on Notice and Note (a series)
On building community . . .
On other important things . . .
- The Next Time (or the power of reading)
- What do we hope for our student readers? (A Conversation Among Teachers)
- Lessons from Mario Kart
Tricia Ebarvia 
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