Here are some handy tips to make your weekly planning a breeze while staying sane. Assign a day for each of your administrative tasks. These include lesson planning, grading, parent communication, and other administrative tasks.

It's amazing how similar the grammar curriculum is throughout the years starting from first grade all the way to high school. Unfortunately, we still get students who need the basics, and even worse still is that the resources available for the basic skills, such as subject and predicate, are geared toward younger children.

Having a mobile classroom can be a bit overwhelming, to say the least, but no worries! Here, I’ll show you some practical tips and suggest valuable resources to help you optimize your teaching cart, making your work life easier and your teaching more effective.

This "All About My Country" project sparks curiosity and helps build rapport with your students. In this blog post, I'll walk you through the ins and outs of implementing this project in your classroom and share how it can transform your teaching experience.

The blog post discusses the importance of preparing ESL students for end-of-year state testing. It provides tips on how to do this, including building a strong foundation in language skills, practicing test-taking strategies, and creating a supportive classroom environment.

These 10 vocabulary activities are great tools to engage and internalize language for our secondary ESL students. Implementing fun and interactive activities is the key to a strong vocabulary foundation. By using these activities, we'll not only build a strong vocabulary foundation but also keep our students engaged and loving every moment of learning.

Here you’ll find a compiled a list of ten of the best back-to-school icebreakers that will leave our ESL students smiling and eager to learn.

Having routines in place provides the structure and familiarity that you and your students need in order to feel prepared every day.

In this blog post, you’ll find 5 of the best back-to-school classroom routines that will save your sanity throughout the school year.

These 7 activities provide opportunities for ESL students to engage in meaningful peer editing and revising processes. By actively participating in these activities, students can develop their editing and revising skills, provide valuable feedback, and ultimately improve their own writing abilities.

Get your ESL students to master organization skills in writing so they can create captivating stories with a logical flow of events that engage readers from start to finish. Through the use of effective strategies, your students will for sure bring their experiences to life. Here, you’ll find 10 ESL teaching strategies for chronological organization in narrative writing.

Explore 10 activities to develop descriptive writing in our ESL students that are actually fun. Pick and choose what works for your students depending on the grade level you’re teaching and the proficiency level of your students.

Teaching ESL students to write personal narratives is the easiest way to get them to write. Personal narratives give them the opportunity to bring out the stories that make up who they are. So, let's discover some ways to help our ESL students bring those stories to life in a way that makes sense to them and to the reader.

In this blog post, we'll be digging deep into teaching paragraph writing to our ESL students. Together, we'll explore practical tips and strategies that will make the process of paragraph writing a breeze for our ESL students.

Here are a few exciting listening activities to enhance language learning in your classroom. By using these strategies, you'll create the best environment that fosters your students' listening skills and pushes their English proficiency to new heights.

Providing opportunities for ESL students to speak during our class is all about helping them grow their language skills, boost their confidence, and become critical thinkers who are ready to take on the world. You will help them grow linguistically, gain confidence, and develop critical thinking skills that will shape their future.

Teaching narrative writing to ESL students is very similar to teaching the concept to monolingual English speakers, although some tweaks need to be done for them to be more successful.

Descriptive writing is one of the absolute best ways for ESL students of any age to develop their English writing skills. By practicing descriptive writing, ESL students can really boost their overall language proficiency and feel more confident in their writing abilities.

As middle school ELA teachers of ESL students, we know how important it is for ESL students to develop their expository writing skills. But don't worry, it can be done. Here, you’ll learn the strategies your students need from you to be successful expository essay writers.

Here’s a great formula that works wonders for teaching your ESL students (and everyone else) how to write an awesome argumentative essay, and you can even use it for persuasive or opinion essays!

Here, you’ll learn 4 tips and strategies to effectively teach your middle school ESL students to write in English.