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Teaching SciFi & Fantasy as an ELA Elective Class

Looking for some new, creative ideas for teaching SciFi and Fantasy in your ELA elective? You won’t want to miss this podcast episode and blog post with guest Caitlin Lore who is sharing great ideas for teaching SciFi and Fantasy as we continue our series on creative electives across the country. Caitlin is sharing how she has split the elective into two mini-courses, one on fantasy in the fall term, one on sci-fi in the spring. Click through to get all of the great lesson ideas today!

Celebrate AAPI Month in your ELA Classroom

Are you looking for ready to use resources that will help you celebrate AAPI heritage month in your secondary English classroom? Click through to get these resources that you can prepare once and then easily refer back to without lots more research and prep. The goal of these displays is to lift up the voices being celebrated that month, and provide quick activities for early finishers, stations, or bell ringers.

Easy Classroom Management Tips for ELA Classes

You probably didn't get into teaching for the joy of classroom management. If you're looking for some easy to implement strategies that will help you manage your classroom so you can actually teach your students with minimal interruptions, you'll want to check out this quick post with some fast tips. Pod guest C.J. Reynolds brought sooo many fun, doable, helpful ideas and you can see some of the top favorites here.

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Hexagonal Thinking Kit: Editable for Any Novel

Want to encourage quality discussion with hexagonal thinking as you read your next class novel, but unsure how to get started? This strategy can yield inspiring results, so let me help you launch it with this easy-to-use, resource-packed toolkit. You'll get editable hexagons, teacher and student instructions, student reflection sheets, and so much more! Download your copy today to encourage great discussions in your classroom.

The First Chapter Friday Series: Nancy Tandon Reads

Today we’re hearing from Nancy Tandon, reading from her book, The Way I Say It. If you’re looking for a new story to share with your students for first chapter friday, welcome Nancy into your classroom to read to your students! My hope is that you’ll play this episode to your students on an upcoming Friday, sharing the guiding sketchnotes handout in this post with them so they can jot down their key takeaways as they listen.

Trying to create a culture of reading in your secondary ELA classroom? With book talk podcasts, students find an authentic audience for their choice reading check-in and their peers find inspiration for their next book! You’ll find everything you need to help students prep and record a creative book talk podcast episode without any tech hassles with this curriculum set. You can then use the episodes for book reviews to help all of your students choose their next book. English Language Arts, Teacher Resources, Education, Book Talk, Reading Activities, Teacher Guides, Student Created, Podcasts, Student

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Are you looking for creative ways to teach vocabulary in creative ways that make it a part of the curriculum you and your students can look forward to? These new ideas will help you add vocabulary into your curriculum in a way that makes it feel like a part of the curriculum rather than an add-on. #highschoolvocabulary #secondaryvocabulary Classroom Décor, Teaching, Vocabulary Activities, Curriculum, Activities, Classroom, Teacher

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Creative and Colorful Vocabulary Activities for ELA

Are you looking for creative ways to teach vocabulary in creative ways that make it a part of the curriculum you and your students can look forward to? These new ideas will help you add vocabulary into your curriculum in a way that makes it feel like a part of the curriculum rather than an add-on. #highschoolvocabulary #secondaryvocabulary

Ready to ditch the teacher overwhelm? Sick of planning from scratch and always searching for new materials to engage your students? You need the Lighthouse! You'll get access to 30 curriculum themes, 33 sub plans, 10 anytime tools to inspire you, 15+ poster and display sets to create easy bulletin boards, 20+ seasonal activities, 6 guest expert workshops, 10 tech video tutorials, and more! Click through to gain access to this helpful community today. Teachers, Teaching Strategies, Teacher Inspiration, Overwhelmed Teacher, Teacher Tired, Lesson, History Projects

Ditch the Overwhelm with this ELA Teacher Membership Community

Ready to ditch the teacher overwhelm? Sick of planning from scratch and always searching for new materials to engage your students? You need the Lighthouse! You'll get access to 30 curriculum themes, 33 sub plans, 10 anytime tools to inspire you, 15+ poster and display sets to create easy bulletin boards, 20+ seasonal activities, 6 guest expert workshops, 10 tech video tutorials, and more! Click through to gain access to this helpful community today.

Want to get your students podcasting? This complete PBL unit for student podcasting makes the whole process easy, from listening to model podcasts, figuring out the format of the show, creating show art and a script, to recording on an easy, free online platform. Get your students excited about modern communication methods with this creative ELA podcasting unit. #englishteacherideas #iteachela English, Art, Ideas, Communication Methods, Free Online Tools, Online Tools, Project Based Learning, English Teachers

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The Easy Guide to Blackout Poetry

Using Blackout Poetry in the classroom is a great way to help students see the point of poetry and give them easy ways to connect to it before bringing out the poetic canon. In this blog post, you will find an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to help students create blackout poetry that will help build student confidence and leave you with a great bulletin board display as well! #teachingwriting #poetryactivities

Looking for fun new poetry lessons to use to get students excited about poetry? Blackout poetry, book spine poems, performance clip tournaments, digital drag-and-drop tiles, and more... there are dozens of fun ways to incorporate poetry into class these days.⁣ Don't want to design from scratch? I get that! Every single one of these options is available inside The Lighthouse. Click through to get more details about how to join today! Lesson Plans, Design, Poetry Lessons, Teaching English, Teaching Practices, Learn English, Teaching Resources, Poetry Month

7 Poetry Lessons Your Students will Love

Looking for fun new poetry lessons to use to get students excited about poetry? Blackout poetry, book spine poems, performance clip tournaments, digital drag-and-drop tiles, and more... there are dozens of fun ways to incorporate poetry into class these days.⁣ Don't want to design from scratch? I get that! Every single one of these options is available inside The Lighthouse. Click through to get more details about how to join today!

You'll never look at book covers the same way by the end of this post! ⁣Wondering what bookface is and you you can use it with your students to ignite their interest in reading? You can grab the free guide to get your students started creating their own bookface images by clicking through to this post today. Reading, English Classroom

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Use Bookface to Build Student Interest in Choice Reading

You'll never look at book covers the same way by the end of this post! ⁣Wondering what bookface is and you you can use it with your students to ignite their interest in reading? You can grab the free guide to get your students started creating their own bookface images by clicking through to this post today.

Looking for a free blackout poetry activity to use with your students? This activity makes a great hook or supplemental activity for any poetry unit. It also leads to an AWESOME display and is the perfect way to celebrate Poetry Month. The instructions are simple, and they are laid out step-by-step with photo examples of each in this assignment. Don't miss out. Grab your FREE copy of this blackout poetry resource today. Writing, Poetry Unit, Writing Poetry, Fear Factor

Blackout Poetry: Creative Poetry Activity for any Poetry Unit

Looking for a free blackout poetry activity to use with your students? This activity makes a great hook or supplemental activity for any poetry unit. It also leads to an AWESOME display and is the perfect way to celebrate Poetry Month. The instructions are simple, and they are laid out step-by-step with photo examples of each in this assignment. Don't miss out. Grab your FREE copy of this blackout poetry resource today.

Free One-Pager Templates for Secondary Teachers

Looking for free resources to use in your secondary ELA classroom? Check out this great collection, which includes free one-pager templates, free editable syllabus templates, free attendance questions, a free Ethical AI use PBL Unit, a fre hexagonal thinking template, and so much more! Click through to grab your free download today.

In search of a fun new book PR project to inspire your students to pick up a new choice reading book? Want to have a schoolwide contest? Have an extra day between units that you need a fun, meaningful activity for? Give #bookface a try! In this quick episode, I’m diving into what Bookface is and how you might use it as a vehicle for building reading enthusiasm. Of course, it’s a fun visual strategy, and you’ll get to see some fun examples as well! Find A Book, Books To Read, School Librarian, Book Pr

#Bookface is Well Worth a Look

In search of a fun new book PR project to inspire your students to pick up a new choice reading book? Want to have a schoolwide contest? Have an extra day between units that you need a fun, meaningful activity for? Give #bookface a try! In this quick episode, I’m diving into what Bookface is and how you might use it as a vehicle for building reading enthusiasm. Of course, it’s a fun visual strategy, and you’ll get to see some fun examples as well!