Learn how to implement a rigorous and engaging character analysis puzzle project in your middle school or high school ELA classroom.

Transform your English classroom with engaging lesson plans and ice breakers! Discover creative strategies and activities designed for the first six weeks of middle and high school ELA. Perfect for setting the tone for a successful school year!

Have you been wanting to try stations in your Secondary ELA classroom but aren't sure where to start? Read through this quick post where we share 8 station ideas and how to use them with your ELA students.

While junk journals can vary from person to person, they generally share one primary characteristic: the journal is made with mostly a mix of found and recycled materials. This is a highly engaging project to turn into a Novel Project for secondary English Language Arts classes. Great also for pro

When it comes to reading nonfiction, my students tend to get bleary-eyed and hard-of-hearing. It’s like they instantly think of their history textbooks and informational articles and they decide before they even know the topic that they aren’t going to like it. And that is one of the big hurdles when it comes to teaching nonfiction texts at the middle school and high school level.

One of the first things teachers learn in their pre-service teaching classes is the importance of establishing effective classroom routines and procedures for

If books are a uniquely portable magic, then podcasts are the wizard in your pocket. When you find interesting podcasts for teens that they want to listen to, you will open up a whole new world of literacy for secondary students. Did you know that podcast listeners are 29% more likely to have a household ... Read More about Why You Should Be Using Podcasts in Secondary ELA

Teach figurative language in a meaningful way to your secondary ELA students with any of these 7 activities.

Setting: it’s the time and location a story takes place. That’s it. That’s the lesson. Well, at least, that’s how I used to think about setting until I had to start teaching it to high schoolers. Ages ago when I was planning my very first unit for my very first teaching position (a unit on

How to facilitate successful Socratic Seminars in the secondary ELA