Language Arts

Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”

How many words can you find within February?

How many words can you find within Chocolate?

Students will go from “FLY” to “BEE” by changing just one letter per step.

Students will go from “WILD” to “TAME” by changing just one letter per step.

Students work with subjects, predicates, and conjunctions to write compound sentences.

How many different ways can we use the word “gift” in a single paragraph? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

How many different ways can we use the word “care”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

How many different ways can we use the word “fruit”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

How many different ways can we use the word “change”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Young students can use this big idea organizer to identify the main idea and support it with details.

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

We tell students to “show, not tell” in their writing, but this advice isn’t effective until they experience the difference. In this video, we’ll put a famous character (of students’ choosing) into a mundane situation and develop a fun scene to show off their main traits.

“Add more variety!” I’d say to my class. But I never really knew what this actually meant. Suprise! This bad advice never improved students’ writing. In these videos, students learn nine specific ways to add variety just by changing the beginning of their sentences. This was easily one of my students’ favorite writing tools – because it actually helped them.

Want students to understand how a paragraph fits together? Explode one and make them reassemble it using the clues in each sentence! I even wrote a little app to bust a paragraph up for you.

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

After watching some great presenters, let’s outline your presentation!

It’s time to turn that outline into a storyboard and then some actual slides.

How do you mentally (and emotionally) prepare yourself for the big day?