POETRY-African American History Month Project
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. …
Oral Book Report Prep
Practice together, then assign students oral reports on independent reading books. Adapt the handout for a whole class or small group assignment and have student complete the form based on…
Evaluating Proposed Solutions
Educators today are using blogs as a way for students to practice writing persuasive and argumentative essays based on current events. Some middle and high school teachers are not sure how…
Activating Strategies for Reading
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…