Read It Write It Love It (Step Up Your Planning to Engage and Inspire ELA Students)

A complete toolkit for overworked ELA teachers looking for effective reading and writing exercises and lessons

In Read It, Write It, Love It, experienced middle school English Language Arts teacher, Emily Aierstok, delivers the ultimate roadmap to helping disinterested and struggling students succeed with reading and writing. Aierstok draws on her decades of professional teaching experience to explain practical, research-based strategies and activities you can implement in your own classroom for immediate results with learners from all levels. You'll explore solutions to common, longstanding problems—like running out of time for lesson planning and aligning compelling classroom content with academic standards—and find insightful tips on integrating tech and multimedia into your learning experiences.

Read It, Write It, Love It offers engaging student activities that make reading and writing fun, relevant, and meaningful. You'll also find:

• Creative techniques to help you connect with diverse learners and accommodate different learning styles
• Time-saving strategies, including easy-to-follow activities and low-prep plans – to make your teaching day easier
• Ways to capture your students' interest in reading and writing lessons and help motivate them to achieve better outcomes
• Strategies for stepping up your planning techniques to ensure you're prepared to meet needs and improve learning outcomes for every student

Perfect for secondary ELA teachers in grades 6 to 12 struggling with a lack of time to properly prepare lesson plans, Read It, Write It, Love It is also a must-have resource filled with easy classroom activities you can try out on your own.