adolescents – 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…

Reflecting and Projecting on Practice

May 10, 2022May 21, 2022 by admin

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End of the School Year? A Good Time to Reflect 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, the end of the…

October Celebrations

September 20, 2020September 15, 2020 by admin

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More than HALLOWEEN Learning about and celebrating the cultures of others is a wonderful reason to write. And, October is a great time to start. For many, October is a time for Harvest Festivals, an ancient celebration revived in many church and community groups as an alternative to Halloween; or…

Hispanic Heritage Month

September 15, 2020May 7, 2020 by admin

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Hispanic Heritage Month What an exciting time to feature the contributions of LatinX Writers, Speakers and Movie Makers! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with culturally relevant texts, video, and speeches that give students opportunity to expand and explore their emerging ELA skills. Read about Historically Significant Events then invite students to share what they've…

Students Starters Enhance Teaching

August 10, 2020November 22, 2020 by admin

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Student Starters in Virtual Setting Now is a good time to plan on releasing more responsibility for learning to your students. The first quarter/semester is when you model reading and writing strategies, making, connections, incorporating a wide variety of examples in your own instruction, and also informing the students that…

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…

Book Talks – Demonstrate then Delegate

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 by admin

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Introduce Students to Books Old and New Select three books that you can link to what interests your specific students. Create two-three slides for each book that include images from book covers or of a key event in the book. On each slide write a probing question, a summary…

Ready for New School Year?

August 3, 2019May 20, 2021 by admin

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New School Year - Are you ready? “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.” (Hale, 1870) For many educators, the beginning of…

Sensitivity to Holidays

July 5, 2019April 29, 2020 by admin

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Writing About the Holidays The holiday season, for many, extends from November through February. Families will be celebrating Diwali, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year at various times during these months. Writing about holidays is a wonderful way to share cultures in words, pictures, and music. Yes, holidays also…

AUTHOR PROJECT: Reading and Research

April 26, 2019April 26, 2019 by admin

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Writing about Literary Favorites After introducing students to the Nine Yardsticks of Value, a good way to determine how well they understand the concepts and can apply them to an independent project, is to assign this author project. Each year, I'd choose to read one of the Nobel Laureates who…

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