Ela activities

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

Movement in the classroom is beneficial for many reasons. First and foremost, getting up to move in the classroom might help anxious students relieve stress.

A fun and engaing, problem solving spelling word game. No prep - simply print and play to learn. Use with any spelling word list.

This blog post explores innovative and engaging lesson plans for any novel unit... ranging from task cards to book instagram pages to a novel podcast project. Student choice is key here, and students can find something they would like to complete in order to convey their reading, comprehension, and

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

Filler Activities for ELA (blog post) What can you do with five extra minutes in secondary ELA? Here are a few ideas to engage students until the bell.

Learn why one-pagers are one of my go-to activities for breaking down complex topics and texts. Understand what they are, why you and your students will love them, and how to implement them in your ELA classroom. I even have the advice to help you tackle the biggest obstacle you’ll encounter with this activity.

Creative lesson plans are important in secondary ELA because they challenge students to go beyond the obvious and think outside the box. Creative lessons plans are also highly engaging for struggling and gifted students. This list of activities encourages creative thinking and growth mindset all

An engaging activity for descriptive writing

It's time to think beyond Mad Libs.

Jumpstart your literary analysis instruction with these engaging and effective activities and mini lessons for middle and high school ELA!

We all know how much I love self portrait activities. I love how each of my kids draw themselves to reflect their personality. So when I saw...

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

Whether your students are lethargic or super-charged, adding movement to your lesson plans will help to solve both issues. Not only is it healthy to move throughout the day, but it can also help students focus and become more engaged with the content they are trying to master. Due to the nature of English classes, ELA ... Read More about 10 Ways to Add Movement in the ELA Classroom

Teaching blog post on using genre crafts to teach genres in the upper elementary classroom

Both teaching and learning are more enjoyable with engaging lesson plans. But, it's hard to be creative when you're exhausted! That's why teacher bloggers at EL

This post explains how teachers can use an academic version of the highly engaging Spoons game to review concepts. Free games included!

Make grammar fun with these exciting grammar activities and games for kids! This blog post is filled with creative ways to make grammar review engaging for students in 3rd grade through 8th grade. Whether you're teaching upper elementary or middle school, you'll find tons of ideas to keep your students active and learning with interactive games and fun grammar worksheets. Add a variety of high interest grammar lessons to help students enjoy parts of speech review!