Tips and ideas for teaching high school ELA
Disengaged students?
Overwhelming amounts of content to cover?
Time-consuming differentiation?
Traditional notetaking is boring.
Gone are the days of merely copying a bullet-pointed list of random facts from the overhead and placing them in a binder, never to be seen again. Today’s students thrive on visuals – whether that’s in our presentations or in their notes.
Plus, studies have shown that using visuals helps students (and adults!) retain information. Win-win!
✅ quickly differentiate note-taking for your students
✅ scaffold the notetaking process, allowing students to become more comfortable with the skill
✅ engage your students with visuals
✅ turn over the responsibility for background knowledge and historical context to your students
Capture students’ attention with photos and graphics
Free up your time – everything’s provided for you
Use whole-class or for independent learning
Improve students’ retention and recall of key facts and movements
3 versions of student visual notes
interactive ThingLink presentations
PowerPoint and Google Slides presentations
✅ Colonialism (1600-1750)
✅ Romanticism & Transcendentalism (1800-1860)
✅ Realism & Naturalism (1850-1900)
✅ Modernism (1900-1950)
✅ Contemporary & Post-Modernism (1950-present)
Check out the American Literature Movements Introduction, Visual Notes Bundle here: