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!”
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Making Connections in a ELA Classroom
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”
Small Groups- Struggling Students Can Read Ahead
A great tool/trick of the trade many teachers already use is to use your small reading groups to have the struggling students read ahead in the text taught in whole group. It builds confidence and self-esteem, but in the end will also gain the student fluency and vocabulary and even comprehension and in a sense,Continue reading “Small Groups- Struggling Students Can Read Ahead”
O. Henry Quotes to Introduce an O. Henry Unit-Literary Quotes Friday
“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” -Gift of the Magi ” And then I told him that my scheme was to put the whole job through immediately and that we would get the ransom and be off with it by midnight if old Dorset fell in with our proposition.”Continue reading “O. Henry Quotes to Introduce an O. Henry Unit-Literary Quotes Friday”
Bell to Bell-Classroom Management in an ELA classroom
Teaching middle school students with hormones raging and preoccupied minds on today’s social media, a teacher HAS to keep them motivated and at attention. Teaching bell to bell is one of your best tools with no added skill to be involved other than planning well. You ask, How do I do that? How do YOUContinue reading “Bell to Bell-Classroom Management in an ELA classroom”
Teaching all students to a high level. Teach to the high.
This is a phrase that doesn’t get enough press and often is not taught as a training topic like it should be. When we are in elementary settings we teach whole group and then teach on level to each small group. When students move to a middle school level, depending on the school system forContinue reading “Teaching all students to a high level. Teach to the high.”
Vary your reading techniques. Close Reading tip.
As years of teaching go by in a career you learn various techniques for reading WITH your students. Note: WITH your students. That is pointed out simply because too many teachers have succumbed to just hitting play on a recorded book and leave all their other learned close reading techniques behind. Do not fall toContinue reading “Vary your reading techniques. Close Reading tip.”
ELA On The Move 