Adaptable Lessons for all Ability Levels in 5.5 Hours

Introducing grade level content is only half the battle when teaching high school ELA.

Some teens have been quietly struggling for years with ELA work, and have completely checked out by the time they enter your classroom. Being assigned to read entire chapters of a novel with unfamiliar vocabulary may seem so utterly overwhelming that they freeze up and avoid doing it. They may see writing as something they’ve only gotten negative feedback on for their entire academic career, so they won’t attempt anything beyond the bare minimum.

How do you break through these negative attitudes towards essential ELA skills? What can you do to identify skills that need reinforcing, so your students have a strong foundation to complete grade level content? What are some high interest activities that reluctant readers would enjoy participating in?

Our 5.5 hour Differentiated ELA 9-12 training covers how to assess for specific areas of need, engaging ways to incorporate deficit areas into the upcoming unit, common barriers to learning seen in the high school population and how to address them, and high interest lesson ideas incorporating music, movement, and art.