• Home
    • Personalized Learning
    • Reading Instruction
    • Close Reading Strategies
    • Writing Instruction
    • ELA Games
    • Summer School
    • Grammar
    • ELA Stations
    • Argument Writing
    • Paired Passages
    • Teacher Life
    • Rhetorical Analysis
  • Shop
  • Free Library
  • About Me
Menu

Teach BeTween the Lines

Street Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Number

Teach BeTween the Lines

Teach BeTween the Lines

  • Home
  • BLOG
    • Personalized Learning
    • Reading Instruction
    • Close Reading Strategies
    • Writing Instruction
    • ELA Games
    • Summer School
    • Grammar
    • ELA Stations
    • Argument Writing
    • Paired Passages
    • Teacher Life
    • Rhetorical Analysis
  • Shop
  • Free Library
  • About Me
use.png

English Teacher Life-Blog

English Teacher Life - A Blog for Secondary ELA Teachers to connect over our unique content. English teacher inspiration, ideas, lesson ideas, and free ELA resources!

Adding Movement in the Secondary ELA Classroom

February 13, 2020 Elizabeth Taylor
Copy of Copy of Discussion Rodeo.png

A few years ago, after a few amazing PD sessions at my school, I became obsessed with increasing engagement in my classroom. One of the best ways that I have found to do this is by adding activities that encouraged my students to MOVE! To get up and out of their seats as often as possible. Sometimes they play games, sometimes they discuss, sometimes they just walk and talk, but they are always activity learning – pun intended. Here are some of my favorite ways to incorporate movement in the ELA classroom.  

Read more
In ELA Games, Grammar, Reading Instruction Tags Movement in the secondary classroom, Creating movement in secondary ela, Movement, increasing engagement
Comment

Grammar Games for the Secondary ELA Classroom

April 30, 2019 Elizabeth Taylor
Day!.png

As an English teacher, I know how important mechanics, grammar, and punctuation are to any writing endeavor. However, I also know how dry and boring these lessons can become if we simply diagram sentences with students. For years, I have been searching for ways to ‘gamify’ my classroom a bit more to increase engagement in content learning. Last month, I wrote about my argument games- five games to incorporate into your argument/persuasive writing unit. Like these games, my grammar games work to practice these challenging skills in a fun, collaborative, and even competitive manner. Check these out to ‘gamify’ your grammar lessons and get your students excited about sentence structure and punctuation!

Read more
In Grammar, Writing Instruction, ELA Games Tags Grammar Games, teaching grammar, Grammar lessons, fun grammar lessons, Grammar instruction, grammar fun, having fun with grammar, grammar, AAAWWUBBIS, Conjunctive Adverbs, semicolons
Comment

Join the thousands of teachers who have become part of team Teach BeTween the Lines!

Sign up with your email address to receive great ELA content and exclusive freebies delivered right to your inbox!

We respect your privacy.

Thank you! I am so happy to have you as part of our team! I look forward to working with you to create an awesome experience for your students!

From my classroom to yours,

Liz - Teach BeTween the Lines

Let's Connect! 

Follow my blog with Bloglovin