English Language Arts
Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop in English language arts.
Integrating SEL Into Writing Instruction
A writing unit for first grade can help develop prosocial classroom behaviors, a reliable indicator of future academic success.369
4 Reading Strategies to Retire This Year (Plus 6 to Try Out!)
A look at a few popular literacy practices that shouldn’t make the cut—along with fresh strategies that experienced teachers and literacy experts recommend instead.16.4kHow Multisensory Activities Enhance Reading Skills
Reading lessons can involve more than just our eyes and ears. Here’s how you can promote reading skills using all five senses.2.5kTeaching Writing Through Landscape Paintings
When students focus on what they can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell in a work of art, their imaginations—and their essay-writing skills—take flight.1.6kUsing Blended Learning to Teach Cursive
When teachers make the technology an integral part of their lessons instead of an extra, students get more personalized instruction.
What Doesn’t Work: Literacy Practices We Should Abandon
The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students. Although we can't entirely solve the time problem, we can mitigate it by carefully analyzing our use of class time.116.7kCreating Authentic Audiences for Student Work
Teachers can guide students to share their learning with different groups of people, creating a deeply engaging learning experience.327How to Give Positive Feedback on Student Writing
If your corrective feedback is very detailed but your positive comments are quick and vague, you may appreciate this advice from teachers across the country.773How to Set Up Authentic Assignments in High School English
Assignments that align with standards and hone students’ critical thinking skills can boost their engagement in learning.714Teaching Kids to Give and Receive Quality Peer Feedback
Building a classroom culture of feedback requires scaffolding and a safe, nurturing environment, but it’s worth the effort, teachers say.2.8kWhich Reading Strategies to Try, and Which to Ditch
Research shows that some popular activities for reading instruction don’t actually result in more fluent readers—so we rounded up the most classroom-worthy ones.5.3k
Reading Aloud to Middle School Students
Hearing books read aloud benefits older students, enhancing language arts instruction and building a community of readers.42.5k3 Essential Tools to Foster Students’ Oracy Skills in the Early Grades
Teachers can help young learners develop their oral language skills with a few simple efforts prioritize to speaking and listening in class.554No One Starts Out Awesome: Advice for New Teachers
There is no single strategy for success. But positivity, flexibility, a desire to keep improving, and empathy will help along the way.995
5 Ways to Support Students Who Struggle With Reading Comprehension
These strategies can help students who are able to decode well but have difficulty understanding what they read—and they’re beneficial for all students.25.6k
