What is making connections? Connecting details to details, characters to details, emotions to actions, events to emotions, characters to events, and on and on and on. They all connect and connect to that like Legos to create a final product or Jenga before it is taken apart or a puzzle and how it fits togetherContinue reading “Making Connections in a ELA Classroom”
Daily Archives: January 12, 2020
How to teach note taking to elementary and middle school grades.
There are many ways to teach citing evidence in a text as you read. Get creative, make it a game. Search and find. Hide and Seek. Give it a name. The students aren’t always bamboozled by your cleverness but it still makes it better than “boring”. Here is a sample of what you could haveContinue reading “How to teach note taking to elementary and middle school grades.”
Study guides should be more than just recall facts. Adding higher-order thinking to their studying helps them and you.
There are times simple vocabulary should be part of or the subject of a study guide. Whether studying test oriented words like Larry Bell’s 12 powerful words (see website and attachment) or text-dependent vocabulary that increases understanding to make connections in a text it is important to have them to study. Using an online vocabulary sourceContinue reading “Study guides should be more than just recall facts. Adding higher-order thinking to their studying helps them and you.”
ELA On The Move 