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Ways to Engage Middle School ELA Students in Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening All Year Long
Join Laura Kebart (LanguageArtsTeachers.com) for a fun walkthrough of four strategies to keep your middle school ELA students engaged all year long!
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5 Reasons to Use a Student Engagement Rubric
Several years ago, I began using a 4-point Student Engagement rubric for assignments that were either early in the knowledge acquisition period or...
Interactive Juneteenth Lesson Plans for Secondary Education
Explore engaging and interactive Juneteenth lesson plans designed for secondary education students to deepen their understanding of this important...
Exploring Identity Through Narrative Writing
During Pride Month, everyone expects coming out stories or rainbow flags to take over their social media profile pics–and honestly, I love those...
8 Books to Promote Social Emotional Learning in Your Classroom
The wonderful thing about Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is it isn’t content-specific; it can span all curriculum and grade levels. Knowing the five...
6 Books For Arab American And Middle Eastern Heritage Month
The best part of being an ELA teacher is getting to expose students to a diverse set of stories. To appreciate the new cultures and heritages more...
ELA: Tweets to Check Reading Comprehension
I don’t know about you, but I hate grading reading comprehension questions. First of all, the answers usually could be “borrowed” from websites like...
Exploring Dynamic Female Characters in Young Adult Literature
Dynamic and flat characterization has been in language arts and English curricula forever, it seems. How do we up the rigor as students advance in...
ELA Activity: Character Analysis Diagram
Analyzing complex characters in a novel or a short story requires students to look at many things such as how they’re described physically, but also...
Creative Ways to Teach Vocabulary
Teaching vocabulary—integrated into a text or isolation can be tricky when it comes to thinking of engaging ways to create meaning. We fall back on...