Adjective lesson plans are here! If you’re writing adjective lesson plans for older students, you’ll want age-appropriate activities. These grammar activities are easy to personalize and will support your grammar…
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Teaching Active and Passive Voice
Teaching active and passive voice with older students? Here are some lesson plans and conversation starters. Understanding active and passive voice is a tool for reading, writing, and listening. Consider…
Conjunctions Lesson Plans: Teaching Conjunctions
Conjunctions lesson plans? I have an overview for you! I picture conjunctions as puzzle pieces, as glue. Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses. The biggest decision in conjunctions lesson plans…
Teaching Nouns: Noun Lessons
Teaching nouns? Here are noun lessons you can personalize. Why are we learning nouns? Dependent upon the age you teach, students need to be aware of nouns so that: They…
Art in English Class
Putting art in English class. Last year, my husband and I purchased a picture from a local art show. It’s a color image of a typewriter on wood. Guests ask…
Grammar Activities: Grammar Hunts
Looking for grammar activities that won’t cost you any money? Seriously. You can create these activities with your trash. A grammar hunt is simply when you search for a grammar…
Writing Complete Sentences: Helping Students with Incomplete Sentence Structure
Are your students struggling with writing completing sentences? In this post, I share ideas for supporting young writers. I truly believe that students possess good ideas. They might not know…
12 ELA Blog Posts To Read Before 2020
ELA blog posts. Education blog posts. What is impacting teachers today and in 2020? As 2019 wraps up, I hunted for the blog posts that influenced me as a high…
Teacher’s Guide to Organizing First Chapter Friday
As you asked: the Teacher’s Guide to Organizing First Chapter Friday. Many people ask me questions about grammar. The second most requested bits of information are about First Chapter Friday.…
The Grace Year: Young Adult Literature Book Review
The Grace Year is a new release by Kim Liggett. This book is a New York Times Bestseller. Movie talks are already in the works! Students will read this book,…