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What do we do with advanced students who need something more in language arts? Here are bunches of articles about how to differentiate vocabulary, word studies, spelling, and reading.

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Meeting Advanced Learners’ Needs in Language Arts

To start differentiating in Language Arts, it's often as simple as upgrading your examples. Bring in authentically interesting novels, paragraphs, sentences, phrases, and words.

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Other Language Arts Articles

How To Run A Novel Study

When you read a book with students, avoid getting bogged down with the nitty-gritty. Just pick one big idea and have fun reading! No quizzes, no memorizing, no essays. Just develop your students’ love of reading.

Writing in Pi-lish

Here’s the perfect constraint for March! Writing with the digits of Pi.

Analyzing Prefixes and Suffixes

Instead of just memorizing what a bunch of morphemes mean, we’re looking broadly, exploring patterns, finding unexpected similarities and weird differences.

Rewrite It, But Don’t Use “E”

Here’s an interesting way to move students past mundane patterns in their writing. Ask for a rewrite, but without a letter (or two).

Universal Themes and… Punctuation!?

Here’s how can we move a punctuation lesson beyond mere memorization and towards actually interesting thinking.

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