English Language Arts
Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop in English language arts.
3 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.151
No 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.
How 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.2.5k
Rekindling a Sense of Connection in the New School Year
Activities middle and high school English teachers can use to emphasize community and collaboration as the school year begins.
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.116.7k
Even Older Kids Should Have Time to Read in Class
If the goal is to develop lifelong readers, students need time in class to practice—and learn to enjoy—reading.8.9k
Reading Aloud to Middle School Students
Hearing books read aloud benefits older students, enhancing language arts instruction and building a community of readers.42.2k
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.21.5k
A Simple Way to Encourage Students to Read More Broadly
When students experiment with ways of classifying books beyond reading levels, they may feel liberated from strict ideas about what they should be reading.1.4k
50 Writing Prompts for All Grade Levels
Sometimes students need a little push to activate their imaginations.51.7k
An Asset-Based Approach to Supporting English Learners’ Reading Skills
A look at what English learners need in order to develop the skills and motivation to improve their ability to read in English.2.3k
Capturing Covid Learning Through Poetry: Things I Learned This Year
An assignment that focuses on learning gains rather than losses can get the new year off to a good start.332
A 3-Step Strategy to Build Students’ Reading Fluency
Young readers learn how to self-direct when they read in pairs, read the same text repeatedly, and use fluency trackers.
3 Alternatives to Reading Logs
Teacher-tested ideas to keep reading homework from feeling like a chore.13.6k
If We Want Bookworms, We Need to Get Beyond Leveled Reading
When it comes to nurturing kids’ love of reading, research suggests variety, choice—and encouragement to stretch—can make a difference.12k