To help your learners discover their own writing styles and embrace reading, check out the fun high school language arts activities below. Support students' voices with hands-on English lessons on how to analyze poems, podcasts, and arguments, complete with videos, downloadable worksheets, and more.
School's back in session, which means it's time for a fresh batch of writing prompts for the new year. Have your high school or middle school students try these Back-to-School prompts this fall.
Looking to include ELA instruction in your social studies classroom? This Mayan pyramids vs. Egyptian pyramids lesson plan idea has students discuss the similarities and differences between the two types of structures through writing an essay.
No matter what your middle school or high school class is reading, these writing prompts about love will get them ready for Valentine's Day.
Get your ELA class into the spirit with these fun Halloween activities for middle school and high school students, and learn from a few masters of horror how to really make those spines tingle and those bones shake.
Teach your students how to write a rap with Dr. Chris Emdin using this rap lesson plan, complete with a writing template, rubric, and teacher guide.
Have high schoolers find inspiration for stories in everyday objects or events and craft advice columns with these downloadable activities for at-home learning.
High schoolers can sharpen their writing skills with activities including a reflective essay on the past school year and a playlist for a book they read.
With these downloadable activities, high schoolers will memorize and recite a poem, take notes as they read a novel, and memorialize a book in memes.
Have your students explore haiku, analyze a podcast, and practice identifying literary terms with these downloadable activities for high schoolers.
High schoolers can sharpen their writing, language, critical thinking, and reading skills with these instructional resources.
Activities including creating a sketchnote, writing an ode to an everyday item, and analyzing the theme of a short story.
Have high schoolers continue learning from home by evaluating a news article for reliability, maintaining a dialectical journal, and responding to daily dinner prompts.
Have high schoolers analyze a poem, summarize an informational text, and write effective arguments with this week's downloadables activities.
Have high school students analyze news stories, poems, and short stories with these instructional resources designed for remote learning.
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