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.
Back to School 2020 is challenging, to say the least. A few of the questions that I have been asked over the course of the last few weeks… Is your classroom ready? Do you know what the district’s plan will be? Do you feel safe …
I hope this post finds you well and adjusting as much as possible to this “new normal” that we seem to have been thrust into. To be completely honest, I am struggling. I am an extroverted, structure-loving teacher. And this holed-up, we-aren’t-quite-sure-when-things-will-get-better way of life …
I hope you have had an amazing first week back with your students. Our district calendar allowed for a full two weeks of winter break and it proved to be what the majority of my students needed to return back ready to take on the …
Are you using the Daily 5 framework for middle school ELA? The Daily 5 was a huge undertaking in my 6th grade classroom, so I want to share some tips and tools that might work with your middle school students. I have created several inexpensive …
UPDATE: Since I originally wrote this post, I created an inexpensive ELA Word Wall for Middle School. Be sure to check it out if you need a fast and easy resource for your middle school classroom. Like you, I have spent a great deal of …
There is no truth to the term “summer break” for teachers. The only break that truly takes place is a “break” from the routine of going to school and teaching a set number of students Monday-Friday from early in the morning into the early evening. …
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