Ela activities

Get your students reading and writing this summer with these fun and engaging enrichment activities for elementary grades.

Try this free, fun, and interactive middle school ELA games in your classroom to teach grammar and literacy ELA skills!

Creative lesson plans are important in secondary ELA because they challenge students to go beyond the obvious and think outside the box. Creative lessons plans are also highly engaging for struggling and gifted students. This list of activities encourages creative thinking and growth mindset all

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

A fun and engaing, problem solving spelling word game. No prep - simply print and play to learn. Use with any spelling word list.

Literacy Center Ideas - hands-on literacy center activities perfect for 5-8 years | you clever monkey

These fun fall writing activities are perfect to use in September and October. Students can create the writing craftivity to go along with a fall read aloud, or use them to write about fall writing prompts.

In my last post, we discussed orthographic mapping and why it is crucial for reading success. Theory is great, but what every teacher wants to know is this—how does it look in practice? In it’s simplest terms, we want to use activities that will help students focus on matching sound to print. Today, I want to talk about a variety of activities that you can use to promote orthographic mapping.Phonemic awarenessWithout phonemic awareness, orthographic mapping isn’t possible. Children must be…

Teaching theme and summarizing can be challenging, but with my tips, guides, and resources to help with your methodology, you can be successful!

Movement in the classroom is beneficial for many reasons. First and foremost, getting up to move in the classroom might help anxious students relieve stress.