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ELA Interactive Notebooks: A Photo Post
ELA Interactive Notebooks are my favorite. We use interactive notebooking for every subject as it helps with note taking and reviewing. While most combine Reading and Language into one notebook, we have actually divided it into THREE. We use: a Literature Notebook (for teaching how to critique and analyze literature) a Reading Notebook for exploring […]
Learning to Write Essays Without Calling it an Essay
Years ago when I was a high school teacher, I discovered that children have a natural aversion to writing essays. They seem to freeze in fright with the mere mention of the word and the results very rarely reflect their skill or knowledge. So I decided to avoid calling what we were going to do an essay. I simply said that we were going to answer some questions.