HeyJaredDeclarative Imperative Interrogative Exclamatory
A Substack about teaching and learning, written by a current high school English teacher.
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Try these four writing prompts for the age of AI --though they never mention AI. (opens the original)
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Try these four writing prompts for the age of AI — though they never mention AI.As AI becomes ubiquitous and generative AI volunteers to do writing for us, even within the digital platforms we use to craft our own words, we need to engage our students in more thinking about the foundation of their learning and the fundamental reasons for learning to read and write well.In short, we need them to grapple with existential questions about school.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="htt
What does balanced technology look like? (opens the original)
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We can miss living in a book when it ends. (opens the original)
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Children's poems are for teenagers too! (opens the original)
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Every now and then, I search my local public library’s collection online for book titles that contain the word “poems” to catch recent collections, anthologies, and picture books I’ve never heard of before.This summer, I was fortunate enough to discover this gem from 2025: Dear Acorn (Love Oak) by Joyce Sidman.<img alt="" class="siz
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