Teaching ela

Try this free, fun, and interactive middle school ELA games in your classroom to teach grammar and literacy ELA skills!

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Use Mentor Sentences in your ELA middle school classroom to improve student writing! Find practical ideas to teach writing skills.

Have you been wanting to try stations in your Secondary ELA classroom but aren't sure where to start? Read through this quick post where we share 8 station ideas and how to use them with your ELA students.

Stations in Middle School ELA that can be taught without constant grading and prepping materials #MiddleSchoolELA

A great blog of secondary English teachers helping you find great ideas to enhance your classroom!

An engaging activity for descriptive writing

These best 5 videos for teaching theme will be great additions to your ELA lesson plans for middle school or high school. Theme is a literary element students need practice with, so click to view these helpful visual aids for learning. #teachingtheme #middleschoolela #secondaryela #elalessonvideos

Here are 15 engaging and creative TV episodes to use in ELA to teach genre, narrative techniques, characterization, and more. (Blog post)

A blog about teaching middle school ELA and math.

In today’s society, it is important that students can use their critical thinking skills in their everyday lives. The perfect place for students to learn how and to practice critical reading, writing, arguing, and even listening is the high school English classroom. Here are 10 critical high school English lessons and skills that teachers should be teaching their students!

As students head back to school, ELA teachers everywhere are considering how they are going to begin the school year, so I wanted to walk you through one of my favorite lesson plans entitled, “Why do we read?” As an educator, there are few things as exciting and rewarding as introducing a young person to […]

The content and skills students learn in their middle school English language arts classes provide them with a strong foundation and help prepare them for high school and beyond, and these middle school ELA lessons are just the ticket! From learning about fundamental grammar rules to learning how to become stronger and more confident writers, middle school is an important time for students to begin thriving in their English classes.

When teaching middle school grammar, it is important to create engaging ela lessons, that will help your students master grammar standards. In this post, I share some of my favorite ELA resources and grammar websites that I use in my own middle school ela classroom. #distancelearning #elaresources #digitalresources #englishteacher #englishresources #englishactivities

Teaching students the difference between literal and inferential thinking is one of my must-do lessons of every single school year