Middle School – Reading – Teaching English Language Arts

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…

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…

Exploring Genres of Fiction #1

October 23, 2014October 20, 2014 by admin

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#1 - What's a Mystery Novel? First of all, there has to be a detective who is set apart from everybody else (including the reader) for eccentric habits/appearance (or by contrast total blandness), exceptional intelligence, the practice of making obscure statements instead of just revealing deductions and revelations as they…

Efficient Classtime

November 12, 2013October 31, 2013 by admin

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Practical ways to manage class time and help students stay on task. Adapt for your classroom.

Talking and Writing About Texts

August 20, 2013September 6, 2013 by admin

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Talking and Writing about Text Preparing to Talk LITERARY ILLUMINATIONS*: Locate a few special sections of the reading that the class should hear read aloud. The idea is to help us remember some interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the text. You decide which passages or paragraphs are…

Science Teacher Adapts Roseboro Book

June 8, 2012July 30, 2012 by admin

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Brooke, a student teacher in Middle School Science class finds useful strategies she adapts for use with students 7th grade in Life Science class. Hi Mrs. Roseboro, …The main teacher with whom I am working with was *** teacher of the year in 2008. The other teacher has been…

YA Science Fiction Novel about Skateboarding

October 28, 2011February 11, 2014 by admin

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Mark Mattison’s novel may be just what you’re looking for to recommend to your sci-fi buffs who may want to expand their reading beyond that about vampires and wizards. See movie trailer. “After a young skateboarder named Chris is accidentally transformed by a lab experiment, he is warped to a…

Literary Devices – A Handout with Definitions

October 28, 2011October 30, 2013 by admin

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Writers use various strategies to create suspense or to provide background information to round out the characterization or to increase the complications the in the rising action. Some of these strategies include irony (dramatic, situational, or verbal), foreshadowing, and flashback. (Handout for students.) [download_box]Literary Devices: A Handout with Definitions[/download_box]

JEOPARDY – literary-terms -2010 (in PPT)

October 28, 2011October 28, 2011 by admin

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A Day No Pigs Would Die

October 27, 2011September 7, 2013 by admin

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Young Adult Novel A Day No Pigs Would Die Vocabulary with Academic Words Included A Day No Pigs Would Die VOC w Definitions

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