Academic Writing

Do your students need help with rhetorical analysis skills? Try these rhetorical analysis sentence starters to help students deepen their analysis of nonfiction texts!

Are you struggling with peer editing because it never seems to be a useful writing activity? Quality feedback doesn’t just happen. Learn how to make peer editing productive and useful in the high school English language arts classroom by combining multiple strategies: color-coding and self-reflection, writer’s workshop, teacher conferences, and peer editing… #highschoolenglish #englishlanguagearts #middleschoolela #ela #peerediting #essaywriting #writinginstruction

Are you struggling with peer editing because it never seems to be a useful writing activity? Quality feedback doesn’t just happen. Learn how to make peer editing productive and useful in the high school English language arts classroom by combining multiple strategies: color-coding and self-reflection, writer’s workshop, teacher conferences, and peer editing… #highschoolenglish #englishlanguagearts #middleschoolela #ela #peerediting #essaywriting #writinginstruction

Are your students able to find credible and reliable sources online? These activities and assessments will help your 21st-century learners to evaluate online source credibility and bias through formative assessment, task cards, and a Google Form source evaluation activity. #englishlanguagearts #secondaryela #remotelearning #distancelearning

Try these fun poetry activities for high school students and engage even the most reluctant learners in creative thinking and poetry writing!

Hexagonal thinking is a fun and engaging active learning teaching strategy for any subject, including high school English language arts or social studies. Check out this bundle of student led activities for Google Classroom and print that allow you to use hexagonal thinking in your classroom with none of the prep and all of the hands on learning! #highschoolenglish #googleclassroom #englishlanguagearts #secondaryela #englishteacher #socialstudiesactivities

Increase student voice & student choice in your English language arts classroom through use of differentiated learning strategies! If your goal as an English teacher is a student-led classroom that emphasizes 21st-century skills, this guide will help you to use differentiated learning as a part of your regular instruction! Student-led learning doesn't have to be a TON of work and can help you save time! #secondaryela #reading #englishteacher #teachertips #elacurriculum…

Fun reading activities for middle school and high school English language arts! | Lindsay Ann Learning English Teacher Blog

These teaching strategies for English language arts teachers will increase student voice & student choice in the classroom! If your goal as an English teacher is a student-led classroom that emphasizes 21st-century skills, the tips in this guide will help you to use differentiated learning as a part of your regular instruction! Student-led learning doesn't have to be a TON of work and can help you save time! #secondaryela #reading #englishteacher #teachertips #elacurriculum #studentchoice

ELA Teaching Strategies for Paired and Small Group Discussions | Lindsay Ann Learning English Teacher Blog

Plan your next hexagonal thinking activities for high school English or social studies with these free templates! This fun teaching idea requires critical thinking skills as students make connections between words, quotes, etc. in any text or subject area. Increases student engagement with visual learning and active learning in your classroom! #highschoolenglish #googleclassroom #englishlanguagearts #secondaryela #englishteacher #socialstudiesactivities

This student centered hexagonal thinking activity for Google Drive and print use requires critical thinking skills as students make connections between words and phrases from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. In the English language arts classroom, this teaching strategy increases student engagement and serves as a great formative assessment. #highschoolenglish #googleclassroom #englishlanguagearts #secondaryela #englishteacher #socialstudiesactivities

Teaching rhetorical analysis can be a challenge at times, because it's a bit of an abstract topic for students to grasp. And, it's especially challenging when we're asking our high school English students to write rhetorical analysis essays. However, I'm here to help make the instruction of this ELA topic easier with this blog post, which shares teaching tips for rhetorical analysis essays, as well as a LOT of essay topics and examples. Click through to read! #rhetoricalanalysis #ELA…

Want to be sure you NEVER run out of writing prompts for your middle school or high school ELA class? This resource includes 300 writing prompts, both picture prompts and text prompts. Plus, you can use these English language arts resources in Google Classroom or in print, whichever fits better in your classroom! These writing activities can be used as bellringers, as formative assessments, in writing centers or writing stations, and more. Click through to buy now! #writingprompts #ELA…

Have you thought about how you can bring inquiry-based learning into your middle school or high school writing instruction? This secondary ELA resource will help you teach your students how to unlock a thesis statement and how to organize their writing for academic papers. Using this activity, they'll use inquiry based learning to create an outline for their essay, including the thesis statement! Click through to read more about this English language arts resource. #ELA #writing…

Practice persuasive writing and speaking techniques with fun and engaging rhetoric activities for middle school and high school English language arts. Students use rhetorical devices and rhetorical appeals as they practice writing and speaking skills! ELA students will work on persuasive speech, argumentative speech, and rhetoric in these engaging and hands-on games for secondary English class. This bundle of resources is full of authentic activities! Click through to learn more…