using web resources – Teaching English Language Arts

Invite Students to Connect Literature and Current Events

August 23, 2022August 24, 2022 by admin

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Most of us are required to teach both fiction and non-fiction reading and writing. One assignment that pulls the two kinds of reading and writing together is based on what could attract attention, reaction, and/or response from literary characters. The strength of this assignment is the student choice within the…

Reflecting and Projecting on Practice

May 10, 2022July 17, 2023 by admin

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End of the School Year? A Good Time to Reflect and Share with Colleagues 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,…

Women’s History Month – Research and Poetry

February 28, 2021March 1, 2021 by admin

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In the United States, March is Women's History Month. 2021 National Women's History Month Theme and Honorees: "Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced" 2021 Honorees Here's a link https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/ Click the link for resources to plan lessons to complement those suggested below. What an opportune time to feature…

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…

Values, Beliefs and Attitudes

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 by admin

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It's important to know the values, beliefs, and attitudes that motivate behavior in order to write an effective persuasive speech or argumentative essay. It also is important to understand ways that speakers and authors reveal these motivators in their writing. Tasks: Locate website for creating word clouds as a kick-off…

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…

Planning for Focused Units

July 18, 2019July 27, 2019 by admin

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Get Off to a Good Start Consider thematic units that may be drawn from Essential Questions. Once you decide on themes or essential questions for the first unit or marking period, you could ask the students to choose the themes/questions for the subsequent ones. Almost any piece of fiction/non-fiction can be adapted…

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