Resources from other teachers – Teaching English Language Arts

Reflecting and Projecting on Practice

May 10, 2022July 17, 2023 by admin

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End of the School Year? A Good Time to Reflect and Share with Colleagues Are you a new teacher? A veteran in the classroom? Or a student teacher just starting to plan for and work with students on your own? Wondering how to get off to a good start? Yes,…

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…

Picture Books in Middle and High School

January 24, 2019July 31, 2019 by admin

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Picture Books for Older Students Plan now to avoid SPRING SLUMP. In many schools, May is the winding down month of the school year. Depending on where you are in the country, you may be assigning your final big project for which your students will demonstrate the breadth and depth…

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…

Activating Strategies for Reading

August 1, 2016July 26, 2016 by admin

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Reading: Activating Thinking Here is a chart strategies to get students thinking about new units, new books, or new readings. Many are interactive and though they come from a site prepared for elementary school students most can be adapted for use with students of all ages. You'll recognize many ideas that are commonly…

CLOSE READING to Enhance Comprehension

October 28, 2014October 25, 2013 by admin

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Close reading is a strategy to enhance comprehension by looking closely at brief passages of text and noticing ways authors use language, structure, and style to convey their messages and reveal their attitude (tone) towards the topic of the writing. Teaching middle and high school students to pay attention to…

4321 Journal Prompts and Essential Questions

September 8, 2012August 18, 2015 by admin

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Looking for a way to inspire students to talk and write about what they read, hear and view? A colleague, Carol S, directed my attention to this method of journaling and this list of Essential Questions. As often is the case, it is an accumulation of ideas from a range…

Multi-Genre Projects

February 6, 2012September 11, 2013 by admin

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Research and Cross Curricular Connections This post page will be devoted to sharing links to multi-genre projects I've designed and those my generous colleagues give me permission to add to the page. Author Project - Based on the writing of Nobel Laureates for Literature Living History -This integrated project is…

Photo Essays – Caution

January 15, 2012July 30, 2012 by admin

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A powerful way to combine media literacy and writing is through the use of photo essays. At the same time, however, as I look at the photo sites available on line, an alarm bell goes up. We have the responsibility to select photos for our various units and must be…

Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheel for Student Choice

January 5, 2012September 17, 2013 by admin

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Offer Students Choices If you're like most diligent teachers, you remain alert for visual aids to help you design lessons that will inspire your students to expand their thinking and that will invite them to use a range of ways to show what they're learning. The verb wheel below is one…

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