Using Google Forms (or paper or anything you prefer) to introduce a text can be fun and informing. Try incorporating questions you’d like to know about your students as well as geared towards the text you are about to read. Here are some samples of one before reading “Lord of the Flies”. Remember to tell students onlyContinue reading “Google Form Prior Knowledge Survey Intros for texts -enrichment”
Daily Archives: January 16, 2020
Small Group Team Tasks Jobs- Many listed, choose what works with your students
Here are job descriptions and ideas for when doing small groups in ALL grades. When able, in younger grades, try to have consistent groups for a time period. (suggestion: rotate groups every 9 weeks.) This allows the students to acquire the job at hand and be more proficient within the groups. Try not to: rotateContinue reading “Small Group Team Tasks Jobs- Many listed, choose what works with your students”
Connotation and Denotation
Don’t leave out of the year. Be sure to add a quick mini-lesson, possibly paired the week or week after teaching multiple meaning words. Leave them up on a word wall or vocabulary notebook. (Morzano vocabulary techniques are a great for this.) Read the research here, try his strategies.) Mini-lessons on connotation and denotation areContinue reading “Connotation and Denotation”
ELA On The Move 