ELA Skills & Ideas Archives

Refresh Grammar Instruction in Middle School & High School

February 8, 2025 // by Lindsay Ann

Many teachers find that their grammar instruction includes piecing together grammar lessons and resources. Grammar may …

October 14, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

When administrators leave their offices and conduct walk-throughs, they look for evidence of active learning. When we …

October 7, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

Seems these days we are spending a lot of time and resources developing artificial intelligence, paying less attention …

September 10, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

I’m going to use a figurative language example here: 1000 times today my students have talked about Taylor Swift’s new …

September 2, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

If you want to be a rhetorical devices finder, you might have plenty to look for here in this blog post. Indeed, …

August 13, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

Visit veteran teachers at your school and ask to see their binders. We all have them: cabinet-filling, …

June 18, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

This blog is not a descriptive essay. There will be parts here and there that discuss descriptive essay …

June 4, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

It seems like so many things are getting shorter these days: our weekends, our patience, and even our readings (beyond …

May 30, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

Ah, novel units and book projects are the bread and butter of English teacher life and planning. We want students to …

May 21, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

There are always things we, as educators, look forward to every year: the first day of school, the last day of school, …

May 7, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

As if there wasn’t enough for students to deal with their junior and senior year – college or career planning, …

April 23, 2024 // by Lindsay Ann

Ask students what some of their favorite books are (or even put a book list, nonfiction or fiction, in front of them and …