Organizing your language arts classroom to optimize learning and minimize distractions is a delicate practice. This section contains my favorite ideas and resources that I use in my own ELA classroom.
Creating a middle school syllabus shouldn’t be too difficult, but I know from experience how hard it is to condense all of your classroom guidelines and expectations onto a single page. One way I was able to streamline the process was to build my own …
While back to school in 2025 will be infinitely more “normal” compared to the COVID years, many of the digital learning practices we implemented during that time now have an established role in our classroom instruction. Whether you teach in a traditional classroom setting or …
It’s not easy to balance work and fun near the end of the school year. Our students have summer and swimming pool dreams on their minds, and ELA teachers don’t have enough instruction time to get through a new novel unit. This makes May a …
Earth Day is one of those school days that can come and go without much fanfare. State testing is often in full swing, and the schedule is jam-packed with only a month or so left of instruction. Earth Day is important, though, and students are …
Have you read Love That Dog and Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech? If you are an ELA teacher, then you need to add them to your reading list asap! These books have a secret power when it comes to teaching poetry—they make it fun …
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