Filler Activities for ELA (blog post) What can you do with five extra minutes in secondary ELA? Here are a few ideas to engage students until the bell.
Example for teachers of how to do a picture dictation activity.
Teaching literature skills to students is an important part of your English Language Arts program. Get some ready to use teaching ideas from this blog.
Don't let your literature anthology dictate the short stories you read with your middle school and high school students. There are so many wonderful short stories out there, many of which can be used to teach a variety of literary elements and paired with other texts. Read on for 13 of my favorites, which literary terms and skills they lend themselves to teaching, plus suggested text pairings and activities.
Copywork is so much more than copying text! When you plan copywork using great literature, you broaden a child's mind and interests.
Can you tell we are tackling Beowulf next week? I am amazed at the number of quality resources available for free! This list includes research pages, writing assignments, history lessons, and literature guides. Updated 08/12/22 Beowulf Resources Beowulf: Still a Hero An Introduction to Beowulf The Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf [...]
On Wednesdays, I share posts, fables, songs, poems, quotations, TEDx Talks, cartoons, and books that have inspired and motivated me on my writing journey. I hope these posts will give writers, arti…
After reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio, students worked in small collaborative groups to create character posters about each of the characte...
It’s a great addition to our list of literary periodic tables of elements. Leah Clark has designed for the independent publishing house W.W. Norton & Company a list of all the nastiest v…
Ways to teach literary elements - three engaging ways to teach the elements of literature with strategies and teaching tips
Storytelling earns the attention of your audience. Incorporate it into your marketing strategy and watch your engagement skyrocket.
Teach EVERY reading literature and reading informational text common core state standard using inspirational and engaging short films and video clips! For an entire year of highly engaging, no prep…
