reflection – Teaching English Language Arts

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…

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…

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…

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…

ADD TO YOUR 2017-2018 TEACHING TOOLBOX

August 24, 2017August 24, 2017 by admin

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Fresh Strategies to Consider Teachers are generous colleagues and share what works for them in hopes that you'll see it try ideas that you can adapt, engage, and reach more students. Having taught middle school through graduate school students, I find that many of the strategies are interchangeable, especially those that…

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…

Making Masks to Reveal Character

January 29, 2016 by admin

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Why Did They Do That? Students sometimes miss the significance of a fictional character's behavior because these inexperienced readers may have missed direct and/or indirect characterization clues authors incorporate to show what motivates their characters to act or reaction they way they do. This is especially true with indirect characterization. Consider in-class activities…

Values Influence Reading, Writing and Viewing

January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by admin

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One way you can have your students step back a moment before they begin looking at articles, viewing video clips, and writing summaries and abstracts about controversial issues is to have a short presentation on values and look at how what we value, think is important to and for us, influences our behavior…

Teacher Writes; Students Pattern

March 9, 2015April 5, 2019 by admin

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[caption id="attachment_6961" align="alignleft" width="156"] Image[/caption] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Sonnets Ms. Nancy Himel, teacher from LA School District, and her class studiied "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and then she invited them to capture the tale in fourteen words, ending in a rhymed couplet! First, Ms.…

Writing Tight – In 25 Words

October 15, 2014October 1, 2014 by admin

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National Day of Writing - October 20 Composing or Summarizing Briefly I thought you'd be interested in an in-class activity to get students to think about the power of a few words as well as the structure of a story. I can see this an effective way to practice vocabulary, grammar and punctuation,…

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