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Help students visualize academic vocabulary and domain-specific vocabulary with graphic organizers, doodle notes, sketch notes, and foldables. These are great tools and ideas to inspire elementary teachers, middle school teachers, and high school teachers. Vocabulary is part of all contents, not just English language arts, so this is a board perfect for all contents: math, reading, writing, science, and social studies!
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Socratic Seminar
Academic Language
Vocabulary Instruction
Academic Vocabulary
English Teaching Resources
Classroom Discussion
Secondary Teacher
Language Arts Classroom
Ela Teacher
Jazz Up a Boring Textbook Lesson with These 6 Easy Ideas
Recently, I observed a colleague teach a textbook lesson. He read a passage from the textbook, and students answered questions. It was horribly boring! Now, it was the end of the school year, and he was trying to cover a lot of content in a limited amount of time. Nevertheless, as I sat there, I thought of 6 quick, easy ways to maximize a dull textbook lesson.
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Freshman English
Learning Targets
Bell Work
Classroom Procedures
Middle School Language Arts
Best Speeches
15 TED Talks for Teaching Speaking and Listening Skills
Classrooms systems are my bread and butter. I have a process or a procedure for everything. Until recently, I did not feel like I had a strong process or procedure for teaching speaking or listening skills. If a unit ran long, I would cut a speaking or listening activity. However, I've recently taken the time to streamline my speaking and listening lessons by collecting these quick, engaging TED Talks. I've also paired each of these TED Talks with a specific speaking or listening skill.
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Teaching Middle School English
Visual Vocabulary
Secondary English
Language Arts Teacher
Doodle Notes
Be Intentional
Make Academic Vocabulary Fun with These 8 Effortless Ideas
Academic vocabulary is something I revisit with students all year long. Over the years, I've tried different systems and strategies, but these are the 8 strategies that have stood the test of time!
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High School Language Arts
Novel Study Units
Teaching Poetry
High School Ela
Reluctant Readers
Literary Analysis
14 Texts to Engage Reluctant Readers in High School
Engaging reluctant readers in the study of literature can be a challenge to say the least. Strategies that worked for one student may not work for another. A lesson or intervention that worked last year may flop this year. More than anything, reaching reluctant readers is a matter of building relationships. A student's interests and strengths can be key drivers in developing a relationship. Plus, these details can be used to guide students toward texts they may enjoy.
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Mentor Sentences
Student Numbers
Reading Anchor Charts
How to Scaffold Poetry Instruction in Middle and High School
I know that teaching poetry is not every ELA teacher's forte, but it's my teacher superpower. Over the years, I've refined the process to scaffold poetry instruction. Firstly, what have students previously learned about how to read a poem? Then, what topics, subjects, or content would engage students, even those reluctant to read poetry? Similarly, what is the optimum reading level for this lesson? At what level will students be successful? Finally, what is the goal of the lesson? #TeachPoetry
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Sophomore English
Literary Movements
Teaching Figurative Language
Reading Poetry
Teaching Main Idea
Response To Intervention
Ap Literature
Teaching Themes
10 Memorable Poems for Teaching Main Idea #mooreenglish @moore-english.com
Determining and analyzing main idea is an important part of reading comprehension. Because of its brevity and all the inferences students must make in the reading, poetry is a great tool for analyzing, determining, and supporting main idea. The diversity in poetry also provides students with the opportunity to analyze theme, author's purpose, point of view, text structure, and figurative language. Perfect for secondary language arts and ELA classrooms.
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Commonly Confused Words
Traditional Game
Teaching Secondary
Exit Tickets
Commonly Confused Words Concentration / Editable Google Slides
Includes 30 cards that ask students to match commonly confused words with their definitions. This set can be used with the whole class, as a sponge activity, or as part of an intervention block. Within these settings, you can use this set to play a traditional game of concentration, for a whole-class matching activity, as task cards, or as entrance and exit tickets.
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Feeling Safe
English Language Arts High School
Inquiry Based Learning
Instructional Strategies
Writing Strategies
Levels Of Understanding
6 Great Ways to Use Gallery Walks in Language Arts
Meaningful movement promotes collaboration and cooperation. The motion also provides students with opportunities to refocus and readjust. Plus, associating learning with movement is a great retrieval strategy. Gallery walks have become one of my favorite strategies for meaningful movement. Gallery walks promote motion but not chaos. The clear procedure keeps students feeling safe enough to take academic risks. Gallery walks promote collaboration. Teachers can easily differentiate too!
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Teaching Literary Elements
Teaching Short Stories
Close Reading Strategies
High School Writing
Teaching Literature
Literary Elements
Classroom Expectations
8 Short Stories for 9-12 ELA #mooreenglish @moore-english.com
Short stories are great tools for teaching analysis skills, engaging students, practicing close reading and annotation, and synthesizing themes across texts. Finding short stories that meet all the necessary criteria, however, can be tricky, so I put together a list of short stories--some American literature, some world literature, all written by women, that will fit secondary language arts and high school ELA.
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Teaching Characterization
Basic Makeup Kit
Rhetorical Analysis
Meaningful Poems
6 Favorite Reading Strategies I Love for High School ELA
Recently, I watched a YouTube video about a basic makeup kit. The premise was "if you could only have a few makeup products, what would you keep?" I'm no makeup expert, but I do know what reading strategies I would keep. These are my ride-or-die reading strategies. Perhaps these are not the trendiest or most glamorous or buzziest strategies, but these are tried-and-true, truest blue reading strategies. I have taught pretty much everything 9-12 ELA, and these work. every. single. time.
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Discussion Strategies
Text To Text Connections
5 Underrated Instructional Strategies for All Content Areas
As teachers, we all have our ride-or-die instructional strategies. However, some of the best strategies often get pushed aside in favor of bigger, better, brighter. Today, I want to focus on some underrated instructional strategies. These are effective, efficient, no-fuss, no-frills, and they work in every content area. These underrated strategies focus on visualization, writing, and listening skills.
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Life After High School
Clutter Free Classroom
Authors Purpose
High School English
8 Little Changes that Transformed My Classroom
If a lesson flops or a unit feels sluggish, my first instinct is often to overhaul the entire thing. Sometimes that's the right choice: lessons fail sometimes. Sometimes, though, big change is not the right choice. Sometimes all you need is an adjustment. Tweak this. Trim that. In the long run, little changes are an important part of continuing to grow as a teacher. Little changes are often more sustainable and manageable. Here are 8 little changes that transformed my classroom!
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Mood Words
Writing Mini Lessons
Writing Station
British Literature
Literary Devices
How to Make the Most of Teaching Mood
Mood is a tricky topic to teach. Students struggle to differentiate mood from tone, and they sometimes see mood as its own literary device when it's really a product of intersecting choices. After years of trial and error, I've made all the mistakes you can make when teaching this (or, really, anything). Some errors caused students to grow confused. Some choices were unclear. Now, I've come up with a few tried-and-true strategies to share with you!
Teaching writing is one of the most meaningful, challenging, and important parts of teaching English language arts. Writing covers so much: informative texts, persuasive and argumentative writing, narrative, and organization. Finding meaningful resources for such a variety of content can be challenging, which is why I put all of this together for you. Now elementary, middle, and high school English teachers have a place for best practices in writing assessment and teaching the writing process! Remote Teaching, Improve Reading Comprehension, The Writing Process, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Writing Instruction, Early Learning Activities, Elementary Writing
Remote Teaching
Improve Reading Comprehension
The Writing Process
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Writing Instruction
Early Learning Activities
Elementary Writing
Ideas for Teaching Writing #moore-english @moore-english.com
Teaching writing is one of the most meaningful, challenging, and important parts of teaching English language arts. Writing covers so much: informative texts, persuasive and argumentative writing, narrative, and organization. Finding meaningful resources for such a variety of content can be challenging, which is why I put all of this together for you. Now elementary, middle, and high school English teachers have a place for best practices in writing assessment and teaching the writing process!
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Teaching Context Clues
Classroom Book Clubs
Concrete Nouns
Notice And Note
How to Teach Context Clues in Secondary ELA #mooreenglish @moore-english.com
By the time they arrive in high school, students know the words "context clues." But do they really know any specific context clues strategies? Probably not. Knowing specific skills to decode words is essential to reading and succeeding on standardized tests. With these simple skills and steps, even secondary ELA teachers can help students master using context clues!