Story Elements (Teaching)

Story elements like plot, conflict, setting, character, mood, tone, theme, main idea, author's purpose, point of view, figurative language, and literary devices are important parts of reading comprehension. Learning about story elements is important for language arts classes, elementary students, middle school English, and secondary ELA.

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Teaching Figurative Language

High School Language Arts

Improve Reading Comprehension

Figurative Language Matching / Google Slides and Google Form

Includes 44 different cards! !Students can work individually or with a group to sort cards based on the types of figurative language they represent (simile, metaphor, alliteration, allusion, repetition, hyperbole, or personification).The passages on each card are drawn from famous literature. Passage selections reflect my interests, my students' interests, and public domain availability.

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Teaching Characterization

High School English Classroom

Academic Vocabulary

English Teaching Resources

Jazz Up a Boring Textbook Lesson with These 6 Easy Ideas

Recently, I observed a colleague teach a textbook lesson. He read a passage from the textbook, and students answered questions. It was horribly boring! Now, it was the end of the school year, and he was trying to cover a lot of content in a limited amount of time. Nevertheless, as I sat there, I thought of 6 quick, easy ways to maximize a dull textbook lesson.

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Love Mythology

Common Core Ela

Language Arts Classroom

How To Use Mythology To Teach Allusion And Synthesis

My high school students love mythology. So I'm always look for opportunities to include mythology in my classroom. Today, I want to share a collection of ideas for using mythology to teach allusion and synthesis. While my sophomores don't have a mythology-specific unit, they do have a unit focused on using short works to practice synthesis. Because synthesis requires teachers to use texts that are related (by genre, theme, or content), this is a good place to incorporate mythology.

Things Fall Apart is truly one of my favorite novels to teach, and in an effort to help more teachers use this novel, I’ve put together a bundle of my favorite paired text resources, including comprehension and analysis questions, listening guides, and synthesis writing prompts. This collection of paired texts, including poems, informational texts, nonfiction texts, and listening activities helps students synthesize across texts, making connections, and finding themes and main ideas! Reading Analysis, Literary Theory, Ap Literature, Language Arts Teacher

Reading Analysis

Literary Theory

Ap Literature

Language Arts Teacher

Things Fall Apart Lesson Plans

Things Fall Apart is truly one of my favorite novels to teach, and in an effort to help more teachers use this novel, I’ve put together a bundle of my favorite paired text resources, including comprehension and analysis questions, listening guides, and synthesis writing prompts. This collection of paired texts, including poems, informational texts, nonfiction texts, and listening activities helps students synthesize across texts, making connections, and finding themes and main ideas!

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High School Literature

Teaching High School English

The Crucible

Kill A Mockingbird

The Best of Moore English / Celebrating 200 Posts!

In four years of Moore English, we've tackled every topic from classroom management to educational technology and high school literature. Today, I've gathered my 5 favorite posts and the 20 most popular. This includes classic American literature such as The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Crucible. This also includes world literature like Things Fall Apart and The Odyssey! Celebrate 200 posts from Moore English!

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Academic Language

Text Structure

Secondary Teacher

English Language Arts High School

Surprising Lessons from Building My First Escape Room

Toward the end of March, my juniors took the ACT, and I saw an opportunity to try my hand at creating an escape room. Overall, the process was fun for the students, took some of the stress out of their upcoming test, and taught me some great lessons about gamification. Here are the secrets I learned from creating my first escape room.

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9th Grade English

Teacher Binder

15 TED Talks for Teaching Speaking and Listening Skills

Classrooms systems are my bread and butter. I have a process or a procedure for everything. Until recently, I did not feel like I had a strong process or procedure for teaching speaking or listening skills. If a unit ran long, I would cut a speaking or listening activity. However, I've recently taken the time to streamline my speaking and listening lessons by collecting these quick, engaging TED Talks. I've also paired each of these TED Talks with a specific speaking or listening skill.

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Analysis Writing

Classroom Book Clubs

Annotating Text

Literary Analysis Essay

How to Use Stations for Literary Analysis

Literary analysis writing is one of the cornerstones of language arts. To help students prepare for literary analysis, I use this set of stations. These stations feature story elements, summarizing, silent discussion, and writing conferences. With stations, students have a chance to work collaboratively, even in a distance learning or blended learning situation. Stations also allow students to build community and learn from one another. Using stations also brings movement to the classroom

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Text To Text Connections

Always Evolving

English Teaching Materials

Instructional Strategies

Levels Of Understanding

How To Engage Students In Studying The American Enlightenment

"American" is an identity that is always evolving. Our students are the next group of writers, thinkers, and leaders who will redefine what it means to be American. For all of these reasons, it's important to get students engaged and excited about the American Enlightenment. Keep reading for 5 ideas about how to engage students in this difficult subject!

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Vocabulary Strategies

Make Academic Vocabulary Fun with These 8 Effortless Ideas

Academic vocabulary is something I revisit with students all year long. Over the years, I've tried different systems and strategies, but these are the 8 strategies that have stood the test of time!

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6 Powerful Poems for Teaching Imagery in High School ELA

Imagery is such a powerful literary device. Unfortunately, it sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. Over the years, I've looked for texts that put imagery front and center. In particular, these are poems I often reach for during intervention. If a student is struggling to understand mood, word choice, syntax, or connotation, imagery is often a good place to begin.

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Metacognition Anchor Charts

Student Discourse Strategies

Teaching Metacognition

Teachers Pay Teachers

How to Add Value to Your Classroom with Metacognition / Moore English

Research suggests that metacognition, or thinking about thinking, can empower students. And this helps students know themselves as learners and thinkers. So today I wanted to share opportunities for including metacognitive thinking in your classroom. Metacognition can be part of formative assessment, summative assessment, and professional development at all levels--elementary, secondary, and middle.

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Situational Irony

Guided Reading Questions

Shakespeare Macbeth

Teaching Shakespeare

Pre Reading Activities

British Literature

Student Plan

How to Get Students Excited About William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Macbeth was the first Shakespeare play I ever taught, and it helped me appreciate how much fun your students can have while acting out a drama in the classroom! Here are some of my favorite activities and lessons to use with William Shakespeare's Macbeth. This includes pre-reading activities, guided reading, writing, making connections, synthesizing, visualizing, and applying literary criticism. Macbeth is a great candidate for a British literature or AP literature class!

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Teaching Character Development

Teaching Story Elements

Teaching Main Idea

Response To Intervention

Teaching Character

5 Favorite Poems for Teaching Story Elements

Readers and teachers don't often think of poems as stories. Nevertheless, poems often have plot, conflict, character, setting, and theme. Teaching story elements can take a lot of time, especially if you want students to work through an entire short story, novel, or drama. Instead of turning to traditional sources, consider using poems to teach story elements. Here are some great reasons for using poems to teach story elements!

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11 Solutions for New Teacher Struggles #mooreenglish

There's nothing quite like being a new teacher, and there's no struggles like new teacher struggles. With a lot of new faces joining my department this year, I've spent a lot of time thinking about simple solutions to common new teacher struggles. Overall, most new teacher struggles fit into three categories: managing classroom resources, finding classroom supplies that work, and the intangible soft skills and solutions. These 11 solutions will help you thrive as a new teacher!