Students often keep reading log’s in the classroom and/or at home. Have students add one question and give them the question stem to use. For example, have students make a question about the character traits and give sample questions with homework to create their own. The main character in the book is _________. ___Character Name____Continue reading “Reading log add-on”
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Roles in Small reading Groups and Literature Circles are numorous
Choose the ones that fit for your classroom. Great for online teaching as well. It gives students a job to do as classwork that can rotate and take away monotony. Hands-on ELA at it’s best. New ideas for roles. Some great suggestions for struggling students.
Questioning Stems add on help
Begin with the end in mind. Remember when you are asking higher-order thinking questions regularly in classroom practice and small group reading analysis, be sure to ask questions on your midway, chapter, and end-of-unit test. For example, if the assessment asks the student to infer the author’s purpose in a phrase or word choice, beContinue reading “Questioning Stems add on help”
Teaching Math Online
Ideas for supplementing an already prepared online curriculum can be daunting. Remember to add little things from your experience toolbox. For example: In elementary math, the objective of multiplication, arrays, and area are all taught by many curriculums with graph paper. Try building on the concepts by playing a game at the beginning of theContinue reading “Teaching Math Online”
Teaching Poetry Online
Remember to keep the rigor of close reading analysis when teaching poetry online. Allowing students to take the words, lines, and stanzas apart are important. Students are looking for figurative language, poetry element patterns, author’s purpose for specific emphasis on wording or structural standouts. Then, they start putting it all back together again to understandContinue reading “Teaching Poetry Online”
How do I raise the level of my questioning while teaching online, facilitate, and get grades?
Try having a group analyze a text with this checklist for them to check off as they discuss. It allows students to be in charge of their learning and teachers to facilitate the level of their discussion without reinventing the wheel each and every time they complete a close reading analysis about a text. LiteracyContinue reading “How do I raise the level of my questioning while teaching online, facilitate, and get grades?”
Common Core Objective Study. Need an opportune quote for the moment a character in the book messes up? Here’s one.
Common Core Objective Study. Need an opportune quote for the moment a character in the book messes up? Here’s one. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.” 0 Abraham Lincoln When a character from the book you are reading in class makes a mistake withContinue reading “Common Core Objective Study. Need an opportune quote for the moment a character in the book messes up? Here’s one.”
And yet another social skill quote from famous readers of the past.
“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” -Henry W. Longfellow The quote teaches common sense, social skills, integrity, and a little bit of history. Have studies examine what a “coat of mail” is and what the reader is to infer by it’s hidden meaning.Continue reading “And yet another social skill quote from famous readers of the past.”
Social Conscious Lessons for all from people from the past
“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizen, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” -Abraham Lincoln Paired-texts that center around characters doing the right thing even when it is hard to do, or without recognition, or to your own loss can be great lessons to learn. Examples: “The Count of MonteContinue reading “Social Conscious Lessons for all from people from the past”
Quotes for paired texts that include characters that have underrepresented honors
Quote: “It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.” -Mark Twain Use Twain’s quote to help introduce the character that will do things for the good of people and not for personal gain or recognition. Paired Texts that work well with the quote examples: Themes:Continue reading “Quotes for paired texts that include characters that have underrepresented honors”
ELA On The Move 