Do your students groan when you bring up the dreaded subject of grammar? Unfortunately, grammar instruction tends to be dry—but not if you have fun grammar exercises to engage your students! Middle schoolers can be a hard group to teach, but making grammar exercises fun keeps them focused on the
Are your students struggling or below-level readers? Do you have students who have difficulty pronouncing words, read slowly in general, and write with many misspelled words? If so, these reading strategies might be exactly what you need!! Here’s how to help your students increase their reading proficiency: 1. Choose specific
Are your students glued to their phones and computers? If so, why not let them use them in class? (In a CONSTRUCTIVE way, of course!!) I’ve compiled a list of some of the best free apps and websites that you can use in your Middle Schoola ELA classroom. You and
Let’s be honest… teaching the writing process isn’t easy, ESPECIALLY when you have to do it online!! That’s because teaching virtually often lacks the accountability that in-person classrooms offer. Have you found your students are completely skipping over the examples and explanations you write so they can jump to the
Sharing an easy, almost no-prep activity idea! ➡️ALL IN ONE Vocabulary Challenge ⬅️ Students work in groups for this activity. Groups of 3-4 students work best. *GIVE each group of list of 10-15 vocabulary words from novel, unit, or other reading . Each group should have access to a dictionary
When thinking about HOW to structure your creative writing class along with WHAT to do, here are some tried-and-true options for a 50 min class (you can adjust these minutes based on your own schedule, too): (10 min) Freewriting / journaling / doodle notes / quiet time (10 min) Read-aloud
No-Prep + High Engagement → Instead of random chapter-by-chapter vocabulary lists . . . → Instead of looking up definitions and still not understanding . . . → Instead of the passive learning that comes from meaningless memorization . . . 💡What if students had simple steps to take that
Students have to analyze how the author develops those POV’s and ultimately, how the POV’s impact other elements in the passage or novel > > Here’s how to do that!
When you need (or want!) classroom supplies, or you found your own curriculum resources you’d like to use, or maybe you want to upgrade a current magazine subscription or membership program for your teaching needs, your school should pay for it. We’re spending more and more money “per student” through
These 10 questions below will help ensure that you always have something to use with pretty much anything you want your students to read and discuss (these work best for fiction texts like novels or short stories, but I do have some for other genres as well). Skim through the
Ooh, yes! How to keep them thinking critically, engaged in the reading, and making connections is always a challenge for us as teachers. These 10 questions below will help ensure that you always have something to use with pretty much anything you want your students to read and discuss (they’ll
Freaking out over how in the world can you actually use centers and stations in your classroom without being completely overwhelmed? Concerned that you don’t have enough time, don’t know how to enforce student accountability, don’t know what the stations should look like, or panicking that you simply can’t keep
Looking for some online resources to round out (or start) a learning experience about Greek Mythology for your middle school ELA students? Below are a few helpful websites that have lots of passages, short myth stories, and activities and ideas. I can tell you that typically, kids LOVE reading the
TDA Text Dependent Analysis Looking for TDA materials in one place rather than spending all night Googling? I’ve compiled several resources from different states and locations online into ONE place to make this easier for Middle School English Language Arts Teachers in TDA states! 1) Here’s a collection
Keep your students busy with something meaningful, academic, and related to the themes that go with this time of year: joy, gratitude, winter weather, holidays, etc. In BOTH of these Christmas-themed AND Winter-themed lesson packs, you will guide students through quick reviews of common figurative language elements like similes, metaphors,