Classroom Language Arts

Each school year a unique mix of middle school students enter the doors of my classroom. Each with a story, each with different strengths...

What do you observe in this picture? What details do you notice? What do see when observing it "closely"? What inferences can you make based on what you see in this picture? These are just a few of the questions that get kids thinking about some of the answers to many of the questions we ask them during close readings of a text. Picture of the Day is an inferring strategy I started with... Photo courtesy of Barbara Saia of Happy Go Smile ... students last year to increase their reading...

You will download 6 free Christmas ELA task cards to help your 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, ESL, and special education students review and practice quotation marks and commas in dialogue. The dialogue is RELIGIOUS Christian themed. You may use the printable task cards in your centers or stations for fun games and activities, such as a scavenger hunt or SCOOT. They also work well for transition activities, as exit tickets, for morning work, test prep, emergency sub plans, and as quick...

Great tool for student engagement, memorization skills, and another way to look at informational text!Check out the accompanying lesson plan! It’s a great ad...

Free Comma Worksheet. Commas are used to separate things in a list. Example: I like to walk, run, and play sports. Read each sentence. Add commas to separate the things in the list.Brought to you by Have Fun Teaching!

Prove It To Me! Freebie. Intro to finding text evidence to support your answer.

Context Clues - Context Clues FREE PrintablesThese Context Clues Printables offer print and go, common core aligned, context clues activities for 4th-6th grade. This context clues product includes four instructional pages to help students search for context clues in text, 1 reading passage, and one multiple choice printable that corresponds with the reading passage.

Awesome FREEBIE lesson for teaching inferring with context clues at the word level!

Summarizing WITHOUT Somebody wanted..., But..., So..., Then... FREEBIE for creating Spectacular Summaries!

Put some meaningful morning work into your daily routine with these "Top 3 List" activities! Get students discussing engaging topics, creating lists, defending their choices, and analyzing their own and others' decisions. 30 week-long topics

These free response pages are the perfect tool to engage students after reading both fiction and nonfiction texts. Use whole class, with partners, or as a literacy center. Enjoy!

I created a couple of sheets at the beginning of the year to teach inferencing. I googled "Inference Photographs" and downloaded many imag...

Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Literature/Reading Task Cards. These task cards are perfect for any fiction reading materials: novels, short stories, anthologies! Prepare to hear some amazing discussion in your classroom!