High School – Reading – Page 2 – Teaching English Language Arts

Student Feedback to Peer Speeches

March 25, 2013October 29, 2013 by admin

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Student Feedback to Speeches Planning Speech Presentation for Efficient Student Feedback (See variety of feedback forms below) To help student focus on various aspects of public speaking by classmates, for each round of speeches, I ask students to complete one section of our speech check list each day they are…

Shakespeare – Choral Reading and Mask Making

January 3, 2013March 13, 2014 by admin

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Shakespeare Out Loud and In Color! Looking for ideas to enhance your teaching Shakespeare plays like Romeo and Juliet in ways that appeal to the multiple intelligences? Looking for ideas that provide be formative and/or summative? Want to keep it fun while assuring yourself that students are getting an in depth…

Literature Circles

September 4, 2012February 5, 2014 by admin

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Structured Discussions Modified Literature Circles are a good way to get students to talk about literature and stay on topic. Attached is an adaptation of the literature circle roles described by Harvey Daniels. This Literature Circle Discussion Guide is easily modified to accommodate students in different grades and for a range of…

Writing From Patterns

August 24, 2012 by admin

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Patterning is a great way to have students practice what they learn about language and literature. As you view this set of workshop slides, you'll find lots of ideas you can incorporate into your lessons to help students understand better how stories, poetry, and articles are structured and how to use…

Independent Reading Contract

February 22, 2012February 22, 2012 by admin

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Encouraging students to read independently is one thing; keeping records and grading their efforts is another. Here's a idea to help reduce the time spent doing the latter. Assign the students to keep their own records and work towards a grade of their choice! You can reduce student cheating by…

Patterning Poetry with Hughes

January 26, 2012September 7, 2013 by admin

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Patterning Poetry Looking for a poem to evoke conversation and to practice patterning? “Dayrbeak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes is an excellent poem for any grade because it subtly addresses current social and political issues of diversity, it demonstrates the use of similes and an extended metaphor, and appeals to the…

New Year – Review Reading Strategies

December 27, 2011December 28, 2011 by admin

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Do you have middle and high school students who still struggle with reading? If so, it may be that they’ve forgotten to apply some of the reading strategies they were taught, but did not perfect when they were in elementary school. You don’t have to be a reading specialist to…

African-American History and Ellison

December 26, 2011 by admin

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Some people believe that fiction reflects the social, economic and political incident or events experienced or observed by the authors. Taking a little time to explore the life and times of Ralph Ellison may help your students see why this comment may be true about the author of Invisible Man.…

A Christmas Carol – Introduction

December 19, 2011December 19, 2011 by admin

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The classical novel, A Christimas Carol by Charles Dickens works well for middle and high school students, especially when taught between the Thanksgiving and Christmas school breaks when so many allusions to it appear in movies, advertisements and holiday songs. "A carol is a hymn of joy sung at Christmas. A…

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