Elementary Language Arts Education Articles for Teachers - Page 3

Hear ye! Hear ye! Knights and damsels hear this, symmetry, ancestry, and symbolism all have ties to coats of arms. Medieval literature and history can be fun and exciting. There are numerous lessons that you can use with these pieces of art. Beginning in the early times of heraldry,  co...

My 13-year-old daughter is a big fan of acrostic poetry. She says, "Acrostic poems make you think really hard about word choice, and they allow you to be creative at the same time. It's a form of poetry that is accessible to everyone." I couldn't agree more. I've heard lots of moans and groa...

Let's face it, punctuation is important. Punctuation marks give the reader clues as to what kind of sentence they are reading (exclamatory, interrogative, declarative, imperative), where pauses come in the sentence (commas, semicolons), when someone is speaking (quotation marks), plus many o...

Each year, students across the country participate in Read Across America Day, often with celebrations in honor of Dr. Seuss, who was born March 2nd. Teachers whip up some green eggs and ham, mix up some Oobleck, and the fun begins. Theodor Geisel, more commonly known as ...