Middle School – Writing – Teaching English Language Arts

Train Essays and Pie Paragraphs

October 17, 2022October 17, 2022 by admin

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Seeing is Believing Sometimes, when students SEE how essays work, they can write their own with more confidence and competence. One thing that has worked for me is using colors, metaphors, and formulae. USING COLORS: If you can locate colored pencils or highlighters in different colors, enough for three colors…

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…

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…

POETRY Notebook – Product and Performance

April 8, 2017August 10, 2017 by admin

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Poetry Notebook Looking for a way to engage students to create a POETRY-Notebook that showcases their learning about poetry and other English Language Arts skills and completing a product/performance assignment that reflects your instruction to meet COMMON CORE STANDARDS. Here's a link to student handout to show how they can use Poetry T.I.M.E.…

Revisions that Improve Writing

May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 by admin

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How Do I Make It Better? " Students sometimes wonder how they can make a well written early draft even better. If you teach them specific steps they can take to improve their writing themselves, you will have taught a skill they can use for life. Consider using alliteration to…

POETRY DISCUSSION Questions

April 28, 2014March 31, 2016 by admin

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POETRY DISCUSSION Questions

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.

Writing Convincing Arguments

October 18, 2013October 27, 2013 by admin

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Writing Convincing Arguments* "You cannot convince a confused person, so keep things tidy and ordered." Reading Critically "When you read, ask yourself questions like “What is the author trying to prove?” “What is the author assuming I will agree with?” Do you agree with the author? Does the author adequately…

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…