reading – Teaching English Language Arts

Nine Yardsticks for Deeper Reading

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 by admin

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Readings: Responding Deeply While the Nine Yardsticks of Value originally were written for use in evaluating fictional works, they can be adapted for deeper reading of more kinds of writing. Take a look below, then download Responding to Reading for use in your classroom to aid students in reaching Common…

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…

Gaining Cultural Insight: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

August 20, 2019July 30, 2019 by admin

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Gaining Cultural Insight This opening of the school year assignment, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? is a novel way to invite students to write a narrative essay based on two different books or literary works. It also can be adapted for history, science or math classes. Rather than focus on…

National African American Read-In

December 7, 2018January 14, 2020 by admin

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Reading Together Anywhere My book was recommended for the The National African American Read-In Sponsored by the Black Caucus of NCTE and NCTE In February 2020, you may hold an African American Read-In event any day of the month February 1-Friday, February 28, 2020 Schools, churches, libraries, bookstores, community and…

Books for Boys

November 25, 2017December 4, 2017 by admin

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Perhaps, because so many elementary and middle school teachers are female, the books on our standard reading lists tend to appeal more to students of that same gender. Not sure if that's the case, but admittedly teachers of young men in all grades recognize that our male students often are…

GETTING INTO A TEXT

October 9, 2017October 9, 2017 by admin

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Take a Random Walk Ask students to write on a piece of paper any ten numbers between the first and last page number of the book you are using. For example, 3,7, 27, 59, 78, 87, 115, 143, 205, 212 Then instruct them to turn to those pages, skim the paragraphs…

BACK TO SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS

September 2, 2017August 24, 2017 by admin

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CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF Students like to know what they know so they'll know what they need to learn. When teachers know what students know, the teacher knows what needs to be taught. Why not invite your students to do a self-check during the first week of school to…

REFRESHING IDEAS FOR READING AND WRITING

August 31, 2017August 24, 2017 by admin

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READING AND WRITING POSTERS Periodically, I find interesting graphics that can be posted in classroom or projected during reading or writing assignments, just to remind students of what they've been taught and now are being asked to use as they read or write. USEFUL in opening weeks of school or…

Emotion Words for Tone and Mood

June 24, 2017June 24, 2017 by admin

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Do you find it tough trying to get yours students to be more precise and use just the right word to express their observations about the author's tone in piece of writing , director's tone in film, or the student's personal response to that work? Here's a list of terms…

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.…

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