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How Chameleons Change Colors: An ELA Literacy in Science Lesson
This fun lesson combines science and ELA (a.k.a. literacy in science). Students read about why and how chameleons change color. They explain why...
Writing About Me Symbolically
Sometimes it just feels good to write about yourself. The introspection is therapeutic. But it can also be difficult. That's when figurative...
Back to School Writing Activities for English Language Arts
As the 2022 school year starts, you have three wishes: 1) You want students to like your class and look forward to the year with you. 2) You want...
Writing a Poem from a Character’s Point of View
An excellent way to get students to really immerse themselves into a character’s point of view is to have them write a “Five Senses Poem” from the...
Writing a Concrete Imagery Poem About a Summer Memory
In your experience, do students just starting the school year want to get to know each other a little, but don't usually want to have to talk too...
Writing About Me Using Hyperbole and Simile
This is a fun lesson in which you give students permission to write some fake news (based on truth) about themselves using similes and hyperbole....
100 Questions on Standardized ELA Assessment Tests
After having been an ELA teacher for 10 years, and then an assessment writer contracted with multiple Ed-Tech companies (while running my store...
The 10 Reading Informational Text Assessment Test Targets (Progressing from Grades 4 to 12)
No matter which state (or U.S. Territory) you live in, your state’s ELA standards include these 10 Reading Informational Text Assessment Test...