Context Clues are never to be set aside and disregarded in any grade taught…yet so often we give and “give” the definition rather than leading them to discover it on their own. Try making yourself overdo it for a week. Stop after every decent vocabulary word and have students search:1.words 2. phrases 3. sentence meaning 4. paragraph meaning …around theContinue reading “Teaching Context Clues Steps”
Daily Archives: January 13, 2020
Poetry in Music-Music in Poetry-Ideas for Introducing Poetry to Motivate Students
Introduce poetry with current song lyrics Display poem without title and author to analyze, then reveal poem Interchange poem and music lyrics to analyze and guess which is which POEM or SONG game guessing which is displayed Introduce poetry to your students by finding a current song (look on the top charts and remember toContinue reading “Poetry in Music-Music in Poetry-Ideas for Introducing Poetry to Motivate Students”
Literature Spotlight Monday-Teaching with today*s trend of Dystopian mania-What to pick!
Students like the Dystopia craze. They like the idea of standing up for what you believe in. They like the underdog getting to go at the big wigs. Then even like when the odds are against them and losing, then winning, then doing it over again. Anything’s possible. Impossible odds. Oh, the possibilities. Novels thatContinue reading “Literature Spotlight Monday-Teaching with today*s trend of Dystopian mania-What to pick!”
ELA On The Move 