Common Core Standards – Page 4 – Teaching English Language Arts

Values Influence Reading, Writing and Viewing

January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by admin

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One way you can have your students step back a moment before they begin looking at articles, viewing video clips, and writing summaries and abstracts about controversial issues is to have a short presentation on values and look at how what we value, think is important to and for us, influences our behavior…

Writing Historical Fiction

December 22, 2015December 22, 2015 by admin

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HISTORICAL FICTION is a made-up story set in specific time and integrates references to real people, places, and or events and writing one can help meet both English Language Arts and History/Social Studies Content Area Standards. Writing historical fiction can be an efficient way for students to utilize what they…

Prep for Semester Exam

December 5, 2015December 2, 2014 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…

Anne Frank Acquaintance Survey

September 14, 2015September 14, 2015 by admin

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How Well Do You Know Anne Frank? Anne Frank Acquaintance Survey Please respond as fully as knowledge, time, and space (can add sheet[s]) allow to these open-ended questions, forwarding same to: Bill Younglove, at wyoungl@aol.com (or 20832 Longworth Avenue, Lakewood, California 90715-1126. You may wish to do a skim read first, in order to…

Prepare in the Fall for Spring Assessments

August 20, 2015September 8, 2015 by admin

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Practice Debates ⇒Argumentative Essays Meeting Common Core State Standards is not the only reason to have students learn to think about claims, reasons, counter-aguments, and evidence. The four major assessments students will face in the near future ask them to show they know to read deeply and write an organized…

Argumentative vs Persuasive Speaking and Writing

July 30, 2015July 27, 2015 by admin

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Arguing or Persuading??? Check out this discussion thread on English Companion Ning which includes Carol S’s distinction, as well as a list of quality resources to teach this key kind of writing and meet Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. Reply by Carol S Argue = change what the readers…

Organizing a Week of Speeches

June 24, 2015January 6, 2018 by admin

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Speaking and Listening in CCSS Consider the two sides of communication: the SPEAKER and the LISTENER as you continue to massage your assignments and scheduling. Because critical listening and useful commenting are skills of equal value to speaking well, I ask students to provide written feedback to each speaker. To…

Revisions that Improve Writing

May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 by admin

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How Do I Make It Better? " Students sometimes wonder how they can make a well written early draft even better. If you teach them specific steps they can take to improve their writing themselves, you will have taught a skill they can use for life. Consider using alliteration to…

Preparing to Teach Poetry

March 14, 2015September 14, 2015 by admin

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Poetry at GVSU Here link to lesson "Preparing to Teach Poetry" presented at GVSU March 10, 2015 and based on Poetry T.I.M.E. described in TEACHING READING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL: Common Core and More (2013) and TEACHING WRITING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL: Common Core and More (2013).

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Sonnets

March 9, 2015March 18, 2015 by admin

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[caption id="attachment_6961" align="alignleft" width="156"] Image[/caption] Teacher Writes; Students Pattern Ms. Nancy Himel, teacher from LA School District, and her class studiied "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and then she invited them to capture the tale in fourteen words, ending ina rhymed couplet! First, Ms. Himel wrote a sample lazy…

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