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Hispanic Heritage Month

September 15, 2020May 7, 2020 by admin

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Hispanic Heritage Month What an exciting time to feature the contributions of LatinX Writers, Speakers and Movie Makers! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with culturally relevant texts, video, and speeches that give students opportunity to expand and explore their emerging ELA skills. Read about Historically Significant Events then invite students to share what they've…

Remember 9/11 While Teaching ELA

September 1, 2020May 20, 2020 by admin

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Reading and Viewing, Writing and Talking About 9/11 Here's link to resources to use as you stay on track teaching ELA skills while honoring those men and women who stepped in to assist those in need and the civilian and military leaders who work so hard to maintain domestic and…

Students Starters Enhance Teaching

August 10, 2020November 22, 2020 by admin

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Student Starters in Virtual Setting Now is a good time to plan on releasing more responsibility for learning to your students. The first quarter/semester is when you model reading and writing strategies, making, connections, incorporating a wide variety of examples in your own instruction, and also informing the students that…

Pulling Ideas Together

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020 by admin

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Writing Better Essays One useful strategy for getting started is to permit students draft in first person and then revise to third person. When they realize that they are invited to present their own ideas, reflections, observations, the students tend to relax a bit and write more honestly about the…

Non-Fiction Picture Books for ELA Classes

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 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…

Colors Call Out to Us

October 28, 2019 by admin

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Colors call out to us in nature and in advertisements. Help students understand the symbolism of colors as it relates to their feelings, as well as why different colors may entice them to behave certain ways, believe certain things, and buy certain products and services. What they learn in these…

Ted Talks for Middle School Speech

October 6, 2019July 31, 2019 by admin

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Amy Cody suggests these TED Talks for use in Middle School and says, "I used these for a speech unit to point out various techniques used in a speech- but my 8 graders really got into all of these." Consider them for speech classes and also as springboards for writing…

Teaching Whole Books

September 4, 2019 by admin

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Resources for Teaching Texts View resources for Middle School and High School Traditional Texts, find lesson plans and ideas, articles and much more Middle and High School Resources for Specific Works A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret…

Juan is Part of the Black Arts Story

September 1, 2019February 3, 2021 by admin

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I, Juan De Pareja What are you teaching next? Now is a fine time to plan an inter-disciplinary unit in which you invite students to draw on what they’re learning in other courses to connect with, supplement, expand and or explore the literature you’re studying in English. Teaching historical…

Values, Beliefs and Attitudes

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 by admin

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It's important to know the values, beliefs, and attitudes that motivate behavior in order to write an effective persuasive speech or argumentative essay. It also is important to understand ways that speakers and authors reveal these motivators in their writing. Tasks: Locate website for creating word clouds as a kick-off…

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