One of the best ways to help students build their skills and improve their performance in a middle school ELA or high school English class is to go back to the basics and focus on the fundamentals of ELA. Here are five teaching resources to use that will help your students get back on track.
Essential ELA Lessons: Figurative Language Teaching Bundle
This figurative language teaching bundle teaching resource includes both the digital and traditional print versions of eight different figures of speech mini-units. Each mini-unit focuses on a specific figure of speech and includes an instructional presentation, task cards, sketch notes, and practice worksheets.
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Essential ELA Lessons: Sentence Structure Teaching Unit
One of the best ways to help students improve their writing is by going back to the basics and teaching the fundamentals of sentence structure with this sentence structure teaching unit. Once students have a good understanding of complete sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences, they will then be able to apply that knowledge to their own writing. This teaching unit includes an instructional presentation, worksheets, and an assessment.
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Essential ELA Lessons: Nonfiction Reading Escape Room
While this nonfiction reading escape room places an emphasis on test prep, this activity is also a fun and engaging way to review informational text in the classroom. By working through an escape room format for nonfiction text, students will be able to work together to improve their nonfiction reading skills. This classroom activity contains one nonfiction escape room with multiple tasks and a second nonfiction article with questions to continue practicing these skills.
Essential ELA Lessons: Parts of Speech Mini Flipbook
A great way to introduce or review the parts of speech is to have students complete a parts of speech mini flipbook. Mini flipbooks are an ideal way to present information to students because they are hands-on activities that promote active learning. Once students complete the mini flipbook, they can either save them in their binder for future reference or glue them into their interactive notebooks.
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Essential ELA Lessons: Digital Grammar Review Activities
One way to incorporate grammar into your classroom instruction is to build mini-lessons and activities that focus on one grammar element at a time. This digital grammar review activity bundle includes four digital grammar activities: parallel structure, hyphens, colons, and semicolons. These digital grammar activities can be used in the classroom or as homework.
