TEACHER COLLABORATORS

  • MIDDLE SCHOOL ELD
ELD: grades 6-8

ELD Grades 6-8

  • These activities, lessons and shared resources are designed to enhance your existing curriculum. Activities from each of the domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are included.  

  • Writing: Three Weeks of Student Journal Prompts

    Journaling is an effective way for students to explore ways to find their writing voice. Use these journal prompts, or modify them to meet your students' needs. 

    Make sure to decide, and to communicate with your students, how you will be evaluating their journals before introducing the prompts. 

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  • Writing Prompts: 826LA

    Journaling prompts from 826LA. From the 826LA Mission Statement:

    "826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

    All of our programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in their individual voice."

    Check out their programs (including tutoring and field trips) to see how the organization can support student writing. 

    826la Programs

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  • DEVELOPING A POSITIVE CLASSROOM CULTURE: THE COMPLIMENTS PROJECT

    The Compliments Project was created by Stephanie MacArthur after she had shown her students the YouTube video  People React to Being Called Beautiful. Basically, it is where a student sits in front of the whiteboard in the ‘hot seat’, and students fill the board with compliments for the hot seater.

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  • Speaking and Listening Practice: Tag Questions

    An inclusive way to build community while practicing speaking and listening: Tag Questions. 

    Teachers ask a question such as, "Who is most likely to get the teacher off topic?" and students respond by "tagging" a student for their response. This game can be played using online platforms (Kahoot, chat box for virtual meetings, Google forms, etc), low tech with individual whiteboards or paper, or even less formally (and with less preparation) by simply asking the students to dialogue with a seat neighbor, small group, or whole class. 

     

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  • Reading Fluency Practice: Lesson Plans for Oral ReadingFluency

    Students will be able to create recordings of their reading fluency so that teachers and students can reflect on areas of strength and areas where continued practice is needed to develop reading fluency using short passages. 

     Videos and audio recordings can be made using Schoology messaging and/or Flipgrid (*Free registration required.Teachers can sign up and create groups for each class. Students will need to sign up one time using their single sign on). 

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