Close Reading Knowledge Building
All of our students bring with them unique thoughts, ideas, and perspectives. When we give them opportunities to share, together they can grow their understanding of a topic. Check out this idea for a deep reading activity that can be used in both lower and more advanced levels alike.
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Schema Jigsaw Grid
Set students up to be successful with a challenging reading with this pre-reading activity. They’ll get some great speaking practice in the process.
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Error Correction Telephone
Here’s another way you can structure error correction to liven up your class and put the fun in grammar.
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Quote Search Posters
Use this post-reading poster activity to help students dig into readings and prepare for a synthesis essay.
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Close Reading Folders
Get your students to work together to unpack and better understand key passages from a text you’re working on in class with this close reading group activity.
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A Lesson on Topic Sentences
If you teach a class where writing is a focus, then you’ll most likely be covering topic sentences at some point. This post has a slide presentation that can help you introduce and your students learn all about writing clear topic sentences.
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Common Errors: Examples and Handout
Learning to self-correct is an important skill language learners must develop. Check out this list of common errors I’ve been collecting. Share it with your students to help them review the mistakes they make the most.
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Writing, Grammar, and Punctuation Tie the Knot at RACE-2-WRITE
Have you been looking for a great way to help your students practice writing? Learn about the game Race-2-Write that will get your students writing while at the same time helping them become more aware of grammar with its awesome color-coding function.
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Collaborative Knowledge Base with Google Sheets
Yesterday at my college’s convocation, we did a group discussion activity that had us using Google Sheets as a place …
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Annotating Together: An Activity for Building Reading Strategies
Do you have students who are hesitant to write on a text? Use this classroom activity to help emphasize the importance of annotating while reading and help students build a repertoire of annotation strategies.
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Language and Identity Unit
This unit is based around the theme of Language and Identity. There are two readings that are the basis of the essay at the end of the unit.
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A Dinner Party: Creative Analysis Activity
Help your students build analysis of multiple sources with this engaging activity that uses art to help students draw connections between multiple readings.
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The Accelerated Instructional Cycle
The accelerated instructional cycle is a way to approach an integrated reading and writing course to help students gain a deep understanding of texts and work to write complex and rich writing assignments.
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5 Collaborative Class Routines
Are you looking for some engaging ways to get your ESL students to work collaboratively? Check out these five ways to get students working and talking together.
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Creative Reading Responses
Engage your class with these great idea for using various genres as reading responses.
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Three Strategies to Improve Student Writing
Learn about three valuable writing tools you can use to help students improve their writing and overall reflection and metacognition skills.
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Redesigning Peer Review
Do you have conflict or struggle with peer reviews in your course? Check out this post to learn two new …
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Just-In-Time Syntax Booster
Add this just-in-time syntax routine to your class to help improve your students' English sentence structure.
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