Ela writing

One of my biggest units of the school year is my informational writing unit. This can be a tricky unit for students because students want to write with first or second person pronouns and include their own opinions. Teaching informational writing takes time and practice to help students succeed at it, especially if students have informational writing topics they are passionate about.

A great blog of secondary English teachers helping you find great ideas to enhance your classroom!

An engaging activity for descriptive writing

These are my favorite, and most effective, ways of teaching writing to elementary students. You may decide that teaching writing is

As middle school ELA teachers, we all want to work to empower our young writers. They often come to us a little shaky, a little unsure. Teaching students--SHOWING THEM--that writing is a process can help middle school writers to build confidence and skill. Ultimately, our job as ELA teachers is not to teach students to scaffold and support students to write a singular essay. Our job is to give students the tools to become WRITERS beyond our classrooms. That means giving students the tools to…

Informational Writing, Research Writing, Writer's Workshop, Anchor Chart, 5th grade, ELA, Layout

These teaching topic sentences lessons cover four types of topic sentences: If...Then, Even though, Since, and When. Download the FREE practice activity, too!

Figurative Language Anchor Chart. Nice anchor chart on figurative language including simile, metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia.

Expository Thinking Map

Types of sentences anchor chart

Create a classroom of writers with these fun writing activities for middle school students! There's something for everyone!

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

Teaching the writing process? Try involving students kinesthetically. Play Doh can work for big kids, too! My high school students absolutely love this writing analogy that walks them through each stage of the writing process as if they were sculptors crafting a masterpiece. Differentiate your instruction with this best-practice, active learning lesson.

Read about eleven different ways to meaningfully incorporate art in ELA class. Keep the focus on students' learning, not their artistic abilities.

14 ways to scaffold writing for struggling students in middle and high school ELA #ScaffoldingStrategies #Writing #MiddleSchoolELA #HighSchoolELA

Creative writing is a skill that can be expanded and applied to many other areas of the secondary ELA curriculum, like analyzing text or creating

Get organized with a daily and weekly ELA plan so that you feel confident and prepared. Planning the structure of a class period varies by unit. Start here!