Call me crazy, but I truly enjoyed teaching 7th grade language arts because I could help my students pull their creativity from deep within and develop it on paper. I recently stumbled across a wonderful website filled with tips for language arts teachers of all grades:
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html. There, teachers will find that any problem can be tackled with a book. Got bullies? Go to
http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/bullies.html and pick one of the many books on that topic for your grade level. Then, ask your little learners to develop a similar story. What about geology? Carol Hurst recommends
Everybody Needs a Rock (An Aladdin Book) because not only does it teach about Mohs' Scale of Hardness, the author also shows young readers about taking your time to make a decision. Wow!
So, whether you teach fiction or nonfiction, second graders or seventh graders, the information you find at this website will provide the important link between literacy and curriculum. Here's a quick link to the Table of Contents:
http://www.carolhurst.com/toc.html.
Happy teaching!
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