Common Core Standards – Page 2 – Teaching English Language Arts

Cross Curricular Resources

July 11, 2018September 28, 2018 by admin

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Update Your List of Lesson Planning Web Resources So grateful to viewers who share websites that help kept us up to date on resources. Henlee Phillips shared this one. Check it out. STUDENT GUIDE TO MATH EDUCATION Note the links to short lessons that help a family review basic…

Prep for Semester Exam

March 12, 2018March 12, 2019 by admin

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Prepare Now to Assess Begin now and ensure that your students will be ready to do well on the semester exams. First, write in your own words specifically what plan to measure. Consider these ideas. (1) How well students recall what you’ve taught about ______________. (2) How well…

POETRY-African American History Month Project

February 15, 2018September 28, 2018 by admin

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Celebrate Cultures February is a great time to incorporate an oral language component into your lessons and invite students to memorize and recite a poem by an African American poet. This assignment lists several to get you started. To increase confidence and decrease apprehension, give the students the grading criteria…

Inspire Curiosity

January 21, 2018September 28, 2018 by admin

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Getting Them Into a Book Are you familiar with the INTO, THROUGH and BEYOND strategy for teaching text? Looking for something that can work in a single period to get students into their next book? Here’s an idea may work for you this Spring. Distribute the book. Invite students to…

Advertisement Analysis Assignment

January 7, 2018January 6, 2018 by admin

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Persuasion - Advertisements One way to introduce students to the power of persuasion and to show them evidence of logical fallacies is to have them analyze advertisements in print and digital media. You can have students write and post their analysis or present their findings in a speech using visual…

Non-Fiction Picture Books for ELA Classes

December 26, 2017December 26, 2017 by admin

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Picture Books and Common Core A significant component of the many state standards is the reading non-fiction informational texts across the curriculum. Here are ideas to get you started incorporating non-fiction to support and expand your lessons in English Language Arts. Use these books to help establish context for both fiction…

Books for Boys

November 25, 2017December 4, 2017 by admin

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Perhaps, because so many elementary and middle school teachers are female, the books on our standard reading lists tend to appeal more to students of that same gender. Not sure if that's the case, but admittedly teachers of young men in all grades recognize that our male students often are…

GETTING INTO A TEXT

October 9, 2017October 9, 2017 by admin

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Take a Random Walk Ask students to write on a piece of paper any ten numbers between the first and last page number of the book you are using. For example, 3,7, 27, 59, 78, 87, 115, 143, 205, 212 Then instruct them to turn to those pages, skim the paragraphs…

Collected in the Summer for Use All Year

September 21, 2017September 17, 2017 by admin

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Tips for Teaching Here are some interesting links, ideas, and video you may find useful as you plan lessons to engage your students. Some will just be fun, others intriguing, some even challenging to you and your students. I'll add to it as I find new treasures. Enjoy! Simple Way…

Non-Fiction Text Features

September 9, 2017August 24, 2017 by admin

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Non-Fiction Text Features Here's an efficient way to introduce/review the concept of text features with your students using slides, a short video, a check list and copy of their textbook from science or history. 1. Show the Text Features Slide that points out different features one may find in non-fiction…

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