Sixth grade ela activities

Click here to get some great lesson ideas and free resources for helping your students better understand characters through word nuances.

What are your tried and true classroom management strategies that work across most grade levels? These are some of teachers'' favorite classroom management strategies as they take little effort to implement and are a foundation to a good relationship with

Filler Activities for ELA (blog post) What can you do with five extra minutes in secondary ELA? Here are a few ideas to engage students until the bell.

Trying to find the best ways to review context clues with your middle school students? Check out these fun and engaging context clues activities and worksheets for your sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade students. Your 5th grade, 6th grade, and 7th grade students will benefit from the context clues practice in these ELA worksheets. These activities and Language Arts lessons are perfect for back to school and are just right for students in grades 5, 6, & 7.

Read about eleven different ways to meaningfully incorporate art in ELA class. Keep the focus on students' learning, not their artistic abilities.

So I came up with some fun ELA Word Work ideas that my students LOVE. You can use a special space in your classroom, "Word Work Station," or you can just allow students to work at their desk to complete these different activities. Take a peek at these fun ideas to make spelling words F-U-N!

Did you think teaching students to write would be a snap? I mean, you are a college-educated, certified individual. How hard could it possibly be? Well, it’s a challenge, especially when just starting out. In my classroom,

SUPERQUICK literature centers in the 6th grade ELA classroom Why I use literature centers in my 6th grade language arts classroom I need a way to reteach important concepts all through the year Students need a way to work on extension activities without much teacher input When I need to spend time working with a small group of

The British playwright W. Somerset Maugham once said “the crown of literature is poetry.” For the English teachers out there who have spent a good part of the year teaching complex novels, grammar rules and how to write a constructed response, this probably rings true! Teaching poetry can be such a treat. It’s fun to have the students interpret ever-deeper meanings from even the shortest of stanzas. And it’s satisfying to find just the right poem to complement the theme or unit you’re…

Stations in Middle School ELA that can be taught without constant grading and prepping materials #MiddleSchoolELA