Brrrr....winter is here and it’s cold outside! What better way to bring winter fun into a warm classroom than reading a good story and then letting creative spirits take charge? This wintertime reading and writing activity, plus a little art thrown in, does exactly that. Materials needed: Frosty the Snowman plus one other book about snowmen - one students aren’t likely to be familiar … [Read more...]
Poetry Activity For Reviewing Parts of Speech – Designing Diamantes
Once students have learned parts of speech such as nouns, verb forms, and adjectives, a fun and cumulative review can incorporate poetry – specifically diamante poems. A diamante poem is a poem consisting of seven lines that take the shape of a diamond. It’s a poem about opposites where the first and last lines are nouns that convey different meanings. Here is an example of a … [Read more...]
The Relationship Between Reading and Writing
For many years reading and writing were (and sometimes still are) taught separately. Though the two have almost always been taught by the same person (the English/Language Arts teacher) during the Language Arts period or block, educators rarely made explicit connections between the two for their students. … [Read more...]
