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English Language Arts

Discover Pinterest’s 10 best ideas and inspiration for English Language Arts. Get inspired and try out new things.
Using Pixar Short films in the English Language Arts Middle School classroom is the perfect way to engage your students in literary terms, figurative devices and other reading skills.  Check out this blog post! #pixarfilms #englishteachers #elaclassroomideas #elaactivities #filmsintheclassroom

Using Pixar Short films in the English Language Arts Middle School classroom is the perfect way to engage your students in literary terms, figurative devices and other reading skills. Check out this blog post! #pixarfilms #englishteachers #elaclassroomideas #elaactivities #filmsintheclassroom

Teaching with games in the classroom is not just “fluff.” Middle school and high school English teachers, learn how you can reinforce core English language arts skills AND engage students with games like Goosechase, Superfight, and more! #highschoolenglish #englishlanguagearts #middleschoolela #ela

Teaching with games in the classroom is not just “fluff.” Middle school and high school English teachers, learn how you can reinforce core English language arts skills AND engage students with games like Goosechase, Superfight, and more! #highschoolenglish #englishlanguagearts #middleschoolela #ela

Have your lessons have lost their spark? Are you searching for some creative inspiration? This #2ndaryELA Twitter chat was all about out of the box teaching ideas in the ELA classroom. Middle school and high school English Language Arts teachers discussed interesting fiction and nonfiction pairings. Teachers also shared creative activity and projects that are both fun and rigorous. Read through the chat for ideas to implement in your own classroom.

Have your lessons have lost their spark? Are you searching for some creative inspiration? This #2ndaryELA Twitter chat was all about out of the box teaching ideas in the ELA classroom. Middle school and high school English Language Arts teachers discussed interesting fiction and nonfiction pairings. Teachers also shared creative activity and projects that are both fun and rigorous. Read through the chat for ideas to implement in your own classroom.

Ditch The Weekly Lesson Prep - Full Year Lesson Plans For English Language Arts Teachers - 2 Peas and a Dog

Full year lesson plans provide huge time savings to busy teachers. It is important to have lesson structures and assignments in your classroom that can be used all year.

ELA Classroom Setup Made Easier... If you are looking to make the most of your classroom space before your students arrive on the first day of school, take a look at these simple and manageable ideas.

As we are heading back to school an abundance of creative classrooms are filling my Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter feeds. I love seeing how other teachers

English Bell Ringers for Middle and High School

By Presto Plans I first realized the power of bell ringers years ago, thanks to a particularly unruly class that would bounce off my walls after lunch. After consistently wasting the first ten minutes of class getting students seated, settled, and ready to learn, I decided to give bell-ringers a try. They were immediately a classroom game-changer. Bell-ringers—sometimes referred to as “warm ups” or “do nows”— are questions, tasks, or other warm up activities that students complete at the…

How To Wow Your Students with QR Code Word Walls ⋆ Jenna Copper

A word wall is a great interactie tool in the ELA classroom to teach middle school and high school students vocabulary and literary terms. This post has ideas and activities that make a word wall effective in a Language Arts classroom. Plus, you can download a free template for a QR-Code word wall making it easy to create in your classroom!

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Pourquoi Tale writing guide for your elementary students in English Language Arts! This writing guide is perfect for elementary students to guide them through the process of writing a pourquoi tale including the planning, rough draft writing, revise and editing, and final draft steps. This literacy activity has the potential to be an independent work project as it contains all the steps needed to write a pourquoi tale. Great for literacy block, writing centers, literacy centers, writers workshop
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Kindergarteners tend to come in at different levels - some are still working on letter sounds, while others are already reading!⁠⁠ In this video, I share some activity ideas that will help you (easily!) differentiate your Kindergarten centers. 😍 ⁠⁠I also explain what I do at the beginning of the school year, when not a lot of differentiation is practical.⁠