by Language Arts Lady | Jul 26, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I geek out on ways to order parts of speech teaching (and whether there are 8, 10, 12, or more parts of speech!) and I give tips on how to teach articles/noun markers. Grammarians, handbook authors, and style...
by Language Arts Lady | Jul 19, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In episode #20, I explain how to choose a passage to give your students as a writing source. Moreover, I explain what a writing source should look like for your students—from the number of paragraphs to the complexity of...
by Language Arts Lady | Jul 12, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In episode #19, I teach how to use a weekly (or daily!) grammar quiz as part of your language arts study. An ongoing grammar quiz in which students easily and incrementally memorize important grammar terms is the answer that I...
by Language Arts Lady | Jul 5, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I continue teaching about using a checklist for revising reports, essays, and stories—including how to teach students to code their edits and changes for quick and thorough grading. I do this with a...
by Language Arts Lady | Jun 29, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I introduce you to my Checklist Challenge (CC) for revising reports, essays, and stories—including how to teach students to code their edits and changes for quick and thorough grading. Revising can be a...
by Language Arts Lady | Jun 20, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I am excited (again!) to teach you about how I teach a very beginning report (moving from essay to report) for elementary students. In teaching beginning report writing, it is important that we don’t have too...
by Language Arts Lady | May 31, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I am thrilled to bring you some insights in to how to teach descriptive writing for middle school (and on into high school!) students. Specifically, I teach how I teach students to write descriptive paragraphs...
by Language Arts Lady | May 24, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I bring you a darling (and fun!) first person essay project for fourth and fifth grade students! Writing first person essays can be challenging for students. They often want to go in and out of that first person...
by Language Arts Lady | May 16, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I bring you a super fun essay writing project of the 3 Paragraph Essay or the 5 Paragraph Essay variety! Yes, essay writing can be fun for students, especially when they learn how to write thesis statements,...
by Language Arts Lady | May 6, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….in this episdoe, I bring you part II of two parts of how to teach story writing for junior high and beyond! For years, I didn’t understand how to help my students write outstanding stories—stories in which they were able to...
