8th grade ela

Using bell ringers in your middle school ELA classroom has huge benefits! This post teaches you how to use bell ringers purposefully and effectively!

Use Mentor Sentences in your ELA middle school classroom to improve student writing! Find practical ideas to teach writing skills.

Using music in secondary ELA is a great way to increase student engagement and productivity. Check out the Secondary English Coffee Shop blog for some amazing ideas and a freebie to get you started! By Danielle at Nouvelle ELA.

Anchor charts are a great way to make thinking visible as you record strategies, processes, cues, guidelines and other content during the learning process. Here are 25 of our favorite charts for teaching your students all about writing. This is the first post in the Teaching Young Writers blog series sponsored by Zaner-Bloser's Strategies for Writers.

Want to get started with one-pagers? Find out how to easily get started in a way that gives every student a roadmap to success.

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

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.

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