English Language Arts

Hearing books read aloud benefits older students, enhancing language arts instruction and building a community of readers.

The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students. Although we can't entirely solve the time problem, we can mitigate it by carefully analyzing our use of class time.

Sometimes students need a little push to activate their imaginations.

Use these novels to teach learning from loss and overcoming adversity to your middle schoolers and high school freshmen.

There’s no evidence that round robin reading helps students improve, so we gathered alternatives that teachers can use instead.

In an excerpt from his book with fellow teacher Katie Hull Sypnieski, blogger Larry Ferlazzo looks at a few basic ways to reach students who are learning English as well as the subject at hand.