English study

By The Daring English Teacher When teaching a novel, I love to mix things up and throw in a fun, creative, or collaborative activity that engages students as they analyze and interpret the novel’s theme, characters, symbols, or conflict. This allows me to enhance my students’ understanding of the novel, and it gives them a break from the day-to-day routine of reading and reviewing that often accompanies novel studies. Providing students with fun and engaging, yet still rigorous, activities…

Beowulf is a challenging text: it's long, dense, and old. With these strategies, you can make this text relevant for all students!

A Charlotte's Web unit study perfect for homeschool, classroom, or thematic novel study. The book study resources listed in this post are all FREE!

Are your students disinterested and tired of the traditional ways of learning characterization? Have you been searching for a really fun, student-centered, interactive way to eliminate their boredom? Well, look no further! I present to you a wonderful student-collaboration activity that will get your students involved and excited for a character analysis for any novel, […]

Beowulf is a challenging text: it's long, dense, and old. With these strategies, you can make this text relevant for all students!

This Wonder novel, by R.J. Palacio character study pennant is all you need to teach and promote the memorable characters found in the book. Wonder is an amazing novel study for young readers. The Wonder pennant is a reading and writing activity. Your students will list character traits using the background organizer on the pennant. here is a pennant for each character (Auggie, Summer, Miranda, Olivia, Justin, Jack, Charlotte, Julian, Mr. Tushman) and two pennants with the book title. Your…

ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,

Learn how to create simple models and maps with early years students with this free geography printable!

Looking for lessons or activities for novel study? This bundle is just full of activities you can use for any text. Get your secondary students thinking independently and critically.

Matchbook chapter summaries super simple and fun project that you can have your students complete during your next novel study.