I absolutely adore teaching spooky, creepy, scary short stories. The suspense, the twists and turns in the plot lines, and the sinister characters always seem to draw students in. This is why I use Halloween as an excuse to spend Octobers studying my favorite eerie and freaky short stories…

I recently wrote about thirteen of my favorite short stories to read with middle school and high school students. While those are my go to stories for teaching literary elements and pairing with other texts, there are so many…

Don’t let your literature anthology dictate the short stories you read with your middle school and high school students. There are so many wonderful short stories out there, many of which can be used to teach a variety of literary elements and paired with other texts. Here are 13 of my favorites…