I originally started my blog as a resource to update parents on our classroom activities. Through the years it has grown into place to share ideas with other educators. This section contains the most read and shared posts from my ELA teacher blog.
Reader’s theater is one of my favorite ways to improve reading fluency, comprehension, and engagement in the middle school ELA classroom. While I love reading aloud so my students can hear fluent reading, I also want them to practice fluent projection and inflection. With reader’s …
Now that the first weeks of school are in the books, principals will begin scheduling classroom observations. On a full-cycle evaluation year, I am observed three times throughout the school year. This includes two scheduled observations and one that is not scheduled in advance. Despite …
Every classroom has a wide range of readers. Typically in my class, I’ve got my FAKE readers, my reluctant readers who need the right hook, and a few who’ll devour three novels before Thanksgiving. If this sounds familiar, an independent novel study with differentiated reading …
Student: “Wait…I know I should know this, but what does that word mean again?” As teachers, we are constantly referring to various terms in our content areas that we want/NEED students to know. To help reinforce the concepts we discuss in our lessons, I designed …
Reader’s theater is the perfect tool to add to your middle school ELA toolbox for so many reasons: it is interactive and highly engaging, enhances student fluency, targets and enriches reading comprehension, and strengthens vocabulary. Here are the top reasons why I decided to make it …
I find 6th grade students are all over the map when it comes to reading. Some never put a book down, but many will only read because they “HAVE to.” After 25+ years teaching ELA, my list of the best books for 6th grade will …
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