Ela projects

Want to invest in relationships with your students while also building the ELA skills that matter for your course? Try one of these five creative projects.

Learn how to implement a rigorous and engaging character analysis puzzle project in your middle school or high school ELA classroom.

I began elementary school in the era of phonics. Looking back, I can honestly say that it seemed to work okay. Matching pictures with their word families in plaid workbooks... I learned to read, but

Book reports and summaries are a thing of the past. Engage your middle and high school students with five book report alternatives that will leave them asking for more and, most importantly, building vital reading and analysis skills along the way. 1. Assign one pagers at the end of a novel. One pagers are engaging, allow for creativity, and lead to higher level thinking and analysis. Assigning a one pager is easy and works for any novel. Follow these simple guidelines: • Make it standards…

Reading Response activities will likely form a major part of your reading programme, whether you are running guided reading groups, a daily 5 system,

This past school year was a great one. With every school year that passes, I like to take a moment and reflect on activities that were successful in the

The days of dioramas and book reports may be long gone. (Is it wrong that I’m a little sad about that?) Yet the expectation that students read and express their understanding of what they’ve read remains as strong as ever. So what’s a teacher to do? More specifically, what’s a creative teacher to do, when she doesn’t want to rely on worksheets? Get creative, of course! I’ve compiled 9 Fun Book Projects for you. They’re quick and easy to prepare, and best of all, they’re engaging – for both…

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In an earlier blog post, I wrote about the benefits of assigning a collaborative writing assignment in the high school English and middle school ELA