A Teacher's Daze

P icking up where I left off in my last blog, I am excited to share a method I used this past year to help prepare my 6th grade ELA students to write a “timed” essay on our state’s standardized test.   “H.O.T .   T.E.E.  x’s 2” I u sed this method with my students to help them prepare for the TIMED essay portion of the state writing test. I am working on a slide show that will soon be available on TPT.  I will post when it is available.  The slide show gives a basic over-view to help students understand how learning this acronym can save valuable time, as well as increase their test performance.  Which grades benefit from using   “H.O.T .   T.E.E.  x’s 2.” ? Elementary, middle or high school students who are required to write a TIMED essay can use some parts, if not all of this method.  I know this is true because I have taught English from 6th to the 12th grade, for the past 28 years.  20 years of my teaching has been in secondar...