Teaching reading comprehension is a key component of language arts instruction. This section contains some of my favorite ELA resources for close reading, novel study units, reader’s theater, and more!
I LOVE being a middle school language arts teacher! I can also tell you that my enthusiasm for teaching middle school is often a cause for debate. “Middle School?! Really??” My response is always, “When you love to teach, you can teach any grade, especially …
As a middle school teacher passionate about fluency, I’m always on the lookout for activities that allow me to assess student recognition of word usage and expression indicators. Both choral reading and reader’s theater provide this opportunity, and each brings a unique approach to doing …
Several years ago, my then 4th grade son came home and unloaded his backpack… lunch bag, accordion folder, homework, and library books. I was surprised to find that one of the library books he had chosen was a picture book. It was The Day the Crayons …
Every classroom I’ve taught has a diverse range of student proficiency. As ELA teachers, we have to be flexible in our teaching approach and make sure we provide the best-fitting resources for each student. Here are 5 upper elementary resources I use all the time …
March and basketball go hand-in-hand, and the Boston Celtics are the closest thing you’ll find to a St. Patrick’s Day sports team. This is where the paths of inspiration took me when I went to write a few close reading passages for the month of …
As the school year progresses, we start digging deeper into our learning and attempting more complex classroom concepts and tasks. Some of the BIG work we do in the middle school classroom is establishing expectations in literature circles in order to make this invaluable time …
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