Sarah Tantillo
@sarahtantillo.bsky.social
Educational Consultant/Writer, creator of THE LITERACY COOKBOOK Website, TLC Blog and Only Good Books Blog (hopefully self-explanatory).
Recently I had the opportunity to learn how to create an app using Playlab. In an easy-to-follow one-hour workshop, I was able to design and test my own app! Here's my post about it: #Playlab theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/a...
A.I. TOOLS: Playing with Playlab!
Recently I had the opportunity to learn how to create an app using Playlab, a tech non-profit dedicated to helping educators and students become critical consumers and creators of AI technologies. …
theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Recently I had the opportunity to learn how to create an app using Playlab. In an easy-to-follow one-hour workshop, I was able to design and test my own app! Here's my post about it: #Playlab theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/a...
For educators: theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/u...
Using ChatGPT to Strengthen Student Writing: Banishing “This shows that”
One of the most common flaws we see in student writing is that they fail to explain how their evidence supports their argument. They just shovel in quotes as though they prove everything. In an eff…
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January 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
For educators: theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/u...
For educators: theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/n...
NJSLA/PARCC Prep: Using ChatGPT to Create an Exemplar RST Essay
If you follow this blog, you know that I’ve shared lesson cycles and numerous resources for how to teach the three types of NJSLA writing tasks (see HERE for an overview, and go to my TLC Website “…
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January 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For educators: theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/n...
Attention, English majors: onlygoodbooks.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/b...
BY ANY OTHER NAME by Jodi Picoult
When I was in high school, although I loved English classes, I hated Shakespeare. Hated him. Day after day, year after year, listening to classmates struggle to monotonously read lines we could bar…
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December 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Attention, English majors: onlygoodbooks.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/b...
Another good read: onlygoodbooks.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/t...
THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman
As someone who hasn’t read many mysteries since grade school (when I gobbled up Encyclopedia Brown, The Three Investigators, and The Hardy Boys, among other series), I recognize that I am late to t…
onlygoodbooks.wordpress.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Another good read: onlygoodbooks.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/t...
Wondering how to use ChatGPT to strengthen narrative writing instruction? Here's a demo! theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/a...
A.I. Demo: Using ChatGPT to Strengthen Narrative Writing Instruction
When a couple of 4th-grade teachers wanted to launch a narrative writing project, I suggested we combine chocolate with peanut butter, and it worked. Let me explain. Their students already knew the…
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December 4, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Wondering how to use ChatGPT to strengthen narrative writing instruction? Here's a demo! theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/a...
My latest TLC post on how we can improve reading instruction: theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/w...
Why Phonics in Isolation Is Insufficient: A SIMPLE SOLUTION
The other day, a dear friend sent me a funny video of her three-year-old grandson talking with his mother: Grandson: “I wan’ be go up.”His mom: “You wanna be a grown-up?”Grandson: “Yeah.”His mom: “…
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November 20, 2024 at 4:09 PM
My latest TLC post on how we can improve reading instruction: theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/w...
Please share my latest TLC Blog post with parents and educators: theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/a...
A Brief History of Reading Instruction (Reposted from Stephen Parker)
If you have a child who doesn’t “love” or even “like” to read, or if you’re an educator who’s unsure how to help students who are struggling with reading, I strongly encourage you to read this post…
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November 17, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Please share my latest TLC Blog post with parents and educators: theliteracycookbook.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/a...