Writing – Page 4 – Teaching English Language Arts

Spring into Speeches and Meet CCSS in Content Areas

March 7, 2014February 25, 2014 by admin

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Speeches meet CCSS By Spring of the school year, your students likely are comfortable enough with you and their classmates to give oral presentations with more confidence and competence than they could in the opening semester. Now is a good time to assign a formal informative or persuasive speech that…

Storytelling – What’s a Trope?

February 25, 2014February 25, 2014 by admin

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Periodic Table of Storytelling Periodic Table of Storytelling? What's a TROPE? Could be used at least two ways: Here's a new resource I've found that you and your students may enjoy this Spring for testing their story analysis skills, learning sophisticated literary vocabulary, and even for creating stories of…

Talking and Writing about LOVE

February 14, 2014February 14, 2014 by admin

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Vocabulary of Love Valentine’s Day Activity Refer to the most recent reading or topic you’ve studied with your class. Ask students to consider way(s) that love could have helped resolve the issues faced by the characters/people in that reading? This, of course, should lead to discussion of different kinds if…

Peer Feedback – Problem/Solution

September 30, 2013October 2, 2013 by admin

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Peer Feedback - Problem/Solution Students can be better prepared to present for class or submit for grading speeches and essays on problem solving if they have in-class time to get peer feedback. As students read and comment on the work of their peers, you, the teacher can listen and observe,…

Prep for Argumentative Speech or Essay

September 11, 2013September 6, 2013 by admin

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Argumentative Speech or Essay: Prep is Key Students sometimes misunderstand the subtleties of persuasive and argumentative speaking and writing. Showing this Monty Python video many inspire your students to flesh out their speeches and essays with reasons their listeners/readers should think seriously about ideas presented for their consideration. Whether the…

Write Now about the Future

August 27, 2013September 6, 2013 by admin

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Journalistic Writing Here's a great first quarter assignment to get students thinking about the value of post high school education, training and experience, while you teach them journalistic style of story writing. The prompt: For what accomplishment will you receive an award in the arts, academics, athletics, politics, military…

Using Commas Correctly

August 25, 2013September 27, 2013 by admin

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Grammar: Using Commas It may sound silly, but it works. Get PHYSICAL! All you need is access to technology to project sentences on to white board and markers in lots of colors. Have ready to project a list of sentences requiring commas for different reasons. As you review the comma rules, invite…

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…

Teaching Invisible Man

July 29, 2013September 26, 2013 by admin

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a rich, complex, and engaging novel. It won the U.S National Book Award in 1953 and remains relevant to this day! Here is a range of resources for teaching this intriguing novel focusing on six of the motif recurring throughout the book: (1) Real/Surreal;…

REAL DEAL incites REAL WRITING

June 11, 2013September 7, 2013 by admin

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Creative Writing with Real Deal This multidimensional, multimedia website has resources and lessons you can adopt for your high school students and adapt for use with middle school students. Real Deal Education with Scenerios to incite writing and talking about sensitive topics important to teens. This excerpt is from their…

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