Increase Engagement in Difficult Texts By Using Blogs

To engage students more deeply in challenging texts by creating blogs where words and images are used to express students’ ideas and reactions.

Students have alternate means to demonstrate their learning of complex topics and texts.

• During class, students read and take notes using index cards, post-its or notebooks.
• At home, students write about what they’ve read and use templates to structure their responses.

Start a Reading Revolution: Flip your Class with Blogs

Sztabnik, Brian (2014, October 17) Edutopia.org. Retrieved February 2022 from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/flip-ela-class-with-blogs-brian-sztabnik