Heard of six word memoirs? Get students writing these impactful short pieces with these tips.
Go beyond think-pair-share with ten discussion strategies that will engage your students in meaningful paired and small group discussions.
With the new year underway, you may be thinking about your future English language arts plans. Let’s look at five teaching trends you should consider when planning your curriculum for the 2023-2024 school year!
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With a new school year upon us, here is a look at 10 must-use secondary ELA teaching units, lessons, and activities for your classroom. These units are
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Are you teaching The Outsiders? Read this post for tips and projects to help students analyze literary themes.
Find 31 scary English language arts resources for teaching literature’s creepiest classics—all available to download at the Prestwick House Free Library!
I don't know about you but I LOVE using poetry in my room!! We use it for so many different skills.You can teach so many different ...
Teaching excerpts of a novel or play
Short stories are easily one of my favorite types of texts to teach! They are short, which the students already appreciate, but they are also jam-packed with so much complexity and meaning! An author can embed messages and observations about life in ways that informational texts cannot, and this makes reading them that much more enjoyable! Teaching short stories and teaching students how to interpret and analyze a short story can be overwhelming. There is so much packed into one short story, it can be hard to figure out how best to approach it.
This is a good example of parallelism because it shows a conversation of how parallel structure is used. The girl says her ideas that don't fit together well, while the guy corrects what's she says by making it parallel structure and fitting her thoughts together well.
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My Fourth Grade Students identified the figurative language in the song and made props to show the metaphoric meanings and acted out the lyrics literally. :)
These ELA podcast pairings will help you design engaging text sets for you middle school and high school English classroom!
Teaching reading and writing is challenging! It is so difficult that often teachers default to what they know best…reading books and then writing essays. But it doesn’t have to be this way! In this article you’ll learn the five biggest obstacles writing teachers face and how to overcome them.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Ted talk "The Danger of a Single Story" is such a moving speech that it deserves to be taught in every class, and here's why.
Looking for a QUICK way to assess grammar? This print and go packet includes 46 exit slips aligned to grammar standards. Each topic includes two exit tickets and keys. The first assessment is free response style or application style, while the second ticket includes multiple choice/test prep style q...
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Shakespeare's sonnets can be difficult for students to analyze, but they can also be quite rewarding. There are certain close reading strategies that help students decipher a sonnet and comprehend its literal meaning and thematic meaning. Close reading is an important skill for middle school and high school English Language Arts, and Shakespeare's sonnets are no exception.
