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.
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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?”
Teaching secret-make anything you are teaching into a game. Tech Tip.
SPINNERS! Yes, spinners. Make a spinner two different ways. (Hint: Them make online spinners and phone/tablet apps you can edit.) To fit any worksheet or premade questions broadcast on your screen a set of questions: If you want it to generate for any sheet, make a spinner with up to 30 or 50 numbers goingContinue reading “Teaching secret-make anything you are teaching into a game. Tech Tip.”
How to make anything you teach a game-Shh! It’s not a secret.
DICE! YES, even DIE! Take a worksheet you know the students need the content but hate adding another fiction/nonfiction/grammar/math/science/social studies worksheet, much less making precious copies, and add dice to it. You can get cheap dollar store dice, make your own foam as well, or order 12-sided dice, etc. Your questions are created on aContinue reading “How to make anything you teach a game-Shh! It’s not a secret.”
Monday Literature Spotlight-Poetry at specific times of the year
Teaching poetry is a ton of fun if you make it so. Starting off with song lyrics is always a great favorite. But timing is a great motivator as well. For instance, teach “Summer” by Walter Dean Myers just before school ends leading into summer. Here are some more. “Twas the Night Before School Starts”Continue reading “Monday Literature Spotlight-Poetry at specific times of the year”
St. Patrick’s Day Gallery Walks
Let’s make the holiday more rewarding than fluff. Take various quotes about luck and have the students analyze the meaning. “Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned. ” -Emily Dickinson “I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of theContinue reading “St. Patrick’s Day Gallery Walks”
More Quotes to Introduce “Romeo and Juliet”
“Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.” -Robert Frost, “To Earthward” “If the heart of a man is depress’d with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.” -John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera “So when you or I areContinue reading “More Quotes to Introduce “Romeo and Juliet””
Problem Solving in today’s world.
Tackling problems isn’t something new. Tackling something head on with all the needed tools is what we are charged with giving the younger generation with every year they grow older. And then even everyday after that for we are all learners each and every day of our lives. Moving past the textbook is hard forContinue reading “Problem Solving in today’s world.”
Introducing a text with Quotes teaching Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
“A hard beginning maketh a good beginning.” -John Heywood, Proverbs “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” -John Heywood “A supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” -Victor Hugo, Les Miserables “The meeting ofContinue reading “Introducing a text with Quotes teaching Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice””
Friday Quotes-Introducing quotes with even more Robert Frost
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.” So prevalent to society but great to use in a Dystopian novel like “Legend” by Marie Lu or “Divergent” by Veronica Roth. As well, great with classics like “Anthem” and “Harrison Bergeron”. “Proclaimed the time was neither wrongContinue reading “Friday Quotes-Introducing quotes with even more Robert Frost”
ELA On The Move 