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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High School Language Arts

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English Language Arts High School

Authors Purpose

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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Learning Targets

Daily Agenda

Language Arts Teacher

Language Arts Classroom

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!

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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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Analysis Writing

Classroom Book Clubs

Annotating Text

Literary Analysis Essay

Socratic Seminar

Writing Conferences

Feature Story

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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Literary Elements

Best Speeches

Instructional Strategies

Free Lesson Plans

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.

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! Teaching Figurative Language, Reading Analysis, Listening Activities, Literary Theory

Teaching Figurative Language

Reading Analysis

Listening Activities

Literary Theory

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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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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Character Analysis Graphic Organizer

Text To Text Connections

Always Evolving

English Teaching Materials

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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Teaching Character Development

Teaching Story Elements

Teaching Main Idea

Mentor Sentences

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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Teaching Characterization

Literary Movements

Junior English

High School Ela

8 Poems for Introducing Post-Modernism in High School ELA

My junior English class is focused on the progression of American literary movements, including a study of post-modernism. To introduce post-modernism, I ask students a series of questions about their independent reading books. From there, we read a series of 8 poems and watch a Ted talk to understand the characteristics of post-modern literature. This is a perfect collection of poems for teaching looking to incorporate living poets, Black and Latinx poets, and poems with challenging structures

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Powerful Poems

Sensory Language

The Things They Carried

Teaching Poetry

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.

For a period in my career, I came to hate poetry. Students never knew how to handle it, I could package the lessons correctly, and I never knew quite what I was teaching with poetry. Overtime, I have worked through these struggles. I have developed a system that helps all students approach poetry. Now, instead of hating poetry, teaching poetry is a classroom superpower! Today, I want to share 5 creative lessons for teachers that hate poetry! #PoetryIsFun #TeachingPoetry #SecondaryELA #English Middle School Language Arts, Inquiry Based Learning

Middle School Language Arts

Inquiry Based Learning

5 Creative Lessons for Teachers that Hate Poetry

For a period in my career, I came to hate poetry. Students never knew how to handle it, I could package the lessons correctly, and I never knew quite what I was teaching with poetry. Overtime, I have worked through these struggles. I have developed a system that helps all students approach poetry. Now, instead of hating poetry, teaching poetry is a classroom superpower! Today, I want to share 5 creative lessons for teachers that hate poetry! #PoetryIsFun #TeachingPoetry #SecondaryELA #English

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Teaching Informational Text

Technology Video

Classroom Videos

Background Knowledge

7 Ted-Ed Lessons for Secondary ELA Teachers #mooreenglish @moore-english.com

In a world of distance learning and educational technology, video lessons can have many benefits. Here are some of my favorite ways to use video lessons: for mini-lessons, as an anticipatory set, during test prep and review, to build background knowledge, and to introduce a new term or idea.

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Lesson Plan Ideas

Note Taking Strategies

National Poetry Month

Poetry Month

Everything You Need for Teaching During National Poetry Month

It's no secret that I love teaching poetry, so I always get excited for National Poetry Month! To help you get ready for National Poetry Month, I've put together all my best ideas, lesson plans, and inspiration for teaching poetry! Everything you need for a successful April of poetry instruction is all in one place.

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Rhyme Scheme

Student Numbers

Reading Anchor Charts

How to Scaffold Poetry Instruction in Middle and High School

I know that teaching poetry is not every ELA teacher's forte, but it's my teacher superpower. Over the years, I've refined the process to scaffold poetry instruction. Firstly, what have students previously learned about how to read a poem? Then, what topics, subjects, or content would engage students, even those reluctant to read poetry? Similarly, what is the optimum reading level for this lesson? At what level will students be successful? Finally, what is the goal of the lesson? #TeachPoetry

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Story Elements (Teaching)