Printables | English Language Arts Essentials | Text Types and Student Glossary

When I began teaching Middle School ELA in the United States, I began a second career in teaching, that was totally different to my first career as a high school teacher in Australia. Education, it seems, is yet another one of the many facets of culture that differ vastly between Australia and the US (not simply our pronounciation and spelling of aluminium). Now, I was no longer a teacher of various subjects to various grade levels, but a teacher of one subjects, to one grade level, simply…