Elizabeth Breau
Teaching in the #MeToo Era
As anyone who’s read Romeo and Juliet can imagine, being an English teacher sometimes includes talking about sex with large groups of...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Summer SAT Classes Starting Soon!
Learn everything you need to know to ace the new digital SAT! This 6-week series includes two hours of SAT English and two hours of SAT...
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Elizabeth Breau
- May 3
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Acing English on the New SAT
In my last blog, I shared my disappointment that the English modules on the new digital SAT are less difficult than the test they...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Apr 29
- 1 min
SAT Summer Classes
Learn everything you need to know to ace the new digital SAT! This 6-week series includes two hours of SAT English and two hours of SAT...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Mar 22
- 3 min
Sink or Swim: Raising Standards Fast
At the end of January, I accepted a part-time job teaching two English classes at a small private religious school in addition to my...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Feb 27
- 4 min
Easy Peasy: Parsing the English Modules on the Digital SAT
One of my ninth grade students recently tried the first English module on the new digital SAT for the first time. It took him almost...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Jan 31
- 3 min
Getting Kids to Write Ideas, Not Just Words
When I tell people that I’m an English teacher, they often confess that they were bad at spelling or punctuation. I never quite know what...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Dec 21, 2023
- 1 min
A New Partnership
I recently joined the Camps with Friends online directory. It provides access to a network of camps and enrichment activities for...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Dec 14, 2023
- 3 min
Turn on Your Child’s Brain!
Experts have been imploring parents to reduce their children’s screen time since the 1970s, when a limited number of children’s programs...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Nov 13, 2023
- 3 min
Word Soup: Why We Need Grammar
The American educational system has often had a conflicted relationship with English grammar, possibly arising from the conflict between...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Nov 1, 2023
- 3 min
Dear College Applicants: Six Things to Avoid in Your Personal Essay
The personal essay is probably the most dreaded part of any college application because writing about oneself is exceptionally difficult....
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Elizabeth Breau
- Oct 9, 2023
- 3 min
Mountains of Words: Teaching Vocabulary Effectively
There are between 170,000 and 470,000 words in English, depending on which dictionary you consult. This number does not include slang,...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Sep 8, 2023
- 2 min
We’re Doomed! Anxiety and Dystopian Fiction
I’m a big fan of dystopian fiction, and regularly teach books like Parable of the Sower, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984 because they offer...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Aug 28, 2023
- 2 min
5 Tips To Turn Writing Theory Into Action
Last week, I discussed Professor Linda Flowers’ theory about the difference between writer-based writing and reader-based writing....
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Elizabeth Breau
- Aug 20, 2023
- 2 min
Getting Students to Think
When I was a graduate student in Vanderbilt University’s English department, we usually taught one composition class every semester in...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Jul 25, 2023
- 4 min
"So What?": Abstract Thinking and Writing
Concrete thinking is the ability to reason through problems based on evidence from the five senses. Children begin to develop this...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Jul 18, 2023
- 2 min
Deductive Reasoning and Why It Matters
Deductive reasoning, or the ability to draw an accurate conclusion based on at least two facts, is a critical thinking skill that many...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Jul 2, 2023
- 3 min
What is History?
History is the study of events that took place in the past. Historiography is the study of how history is written. The current crusade...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Jun 23, 2023
- 2 min
Make Reading Fun Again!
Gloom-and-doom headlines about how low American children’s reading scores have sunk dishearten me. Many of my students view reading as an...
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Elizabeth Breau
- Jun 15, 2023
- 1 min
Poll: Favorite Childhood Books
I grew up reading many of the same books that my mother had read as a child. In fact, I read her copies of Heidi, Bambi, Little Women,...
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