Quotes as classroom decor make inexpensive yet meaningful displays. Quotes for classroom decoration can also be easily rotated. Classroom decor is tricky for older students. Secondary students do not want…
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Improve Student Writing
What are methods to improve student writing? Here are approaches I take. Teaching methods for student writing evolve. On a large scale, educators teach students to write for college and…
Spring Language Arts Lesson Plans
Spring language arts lesson plans: what I teach in April. Spring break is over, and the countdowns are on for the end of the school year. This can only mean…
Enhance Your Animal Farm Unit with Interactive Activities
Enhance your Animal Farm unit with interactive activities. Animal Farm is a book that I could teach half asleep. (Not that I would. I enjoy the content, and love it…
Creative Thinking: Brainstorming Activities for Students
Brainstorming and the writing process: an important first step. Providing brainstorming activities for high school students can give them an opportunity to think and expand ideas—and teachers an opportunity to…
Conflict Activities for Literary Analysis
Conflict activities for literary analysis: Let’s have fun with this divisive literary device and move toward literary analysis activities. Below, I’ve included literary analysis activities as well as short stories…
Coloring Sheets for Older Students
Coloring sheets for older students (such as grammar coloring sheets middle school) seem to be the rage. And popular fads can be productive, beneficial fads. How can coloring sheets benefit…
January Language Arts Tips: New Classes After Break
These January language arts tips will get you through the longest month of the school year. January exhausts me with its cold and long days. Whatever prep I can do…
Goal Setting With Students
Goal setting with students for standardizing testing has been a quick lesson tool. I currently teach ACT prep classes. I travel to different area schools and meet new students every…
Reflection, and More Reflection as a Teacher
Reflection as a teacher: reflect, reflect, reflect. Reflection as a teacher is a bit of a motto—reflect on experiences to better your instruction and connections. John Dewey stated, “We do…