ELA and Technology: Making Connections

The final lesson in a five-lesson theatre arts unit asks learners to investigate how theatre incorporates skills from other disciplines. Primary graders create word problems related to ticket sales. Middle schoolers explore stage...

Power generation and energy usage are the focus of a instructional activity on technology tradeoffs. Class members consider the positive and negative effects of such energy sources as diesel fuel and gasoline, and after considering the...

Survey your class to find out how often and what technology they use. They will answer 5 questions to 5 students and then create a short report on what they learned about their classmates' technology use. 

As part of a study of how writers structure their text so that readers understand events, class members do a close reading of “Is It Lawful to Make Slaves of Others Against Their Will?”, a chapter in Aronson and Budhos' Sugar Changed the...

What happens when a tenuous grasp on sanity begins to slip? Compare Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain" with a activity focused on the development of a common central idea. High...

Connect your middle or high school classes with a second grade class in this cooperative learning activity. The older students help younger learners to formulate a summary type book report, working in pairs. They type the report and...

Explore connections within and between informational texts with this lesson about encyclopedia articles. Middle schoolers write encyclopedia articles focusing on topics in American history. They discuss how to determine credibility...

Make the move toward incorporating more technology in your classroom and help to prepare your class for the professional world. Here is a resource that describes the Common Core standard while incorporating technology and English...

Fill your classroom with the delicious aroma of freshly baked pumpkin pie using this fun language arts lesson. Beginning with a class reading of the book Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman, learners practice identifying rhyming words, making...