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Crafting Compelling Narrative Units: A Middle School ELA Teacher’s Guide to Dynamic Reading & Writing Instruction
Welcome, Middle School ELA teachers! 📚✨ I’m assuming you’re here because you’re looking to simplify the process of planning a narrative reading and writing unit. Welp, you’re in the right place! Let’s navigate this journey together, armed with practical strategies to streamline your planning process, saving you time and reducing
What to Teach in December: Community-Building Lesson Ideas for Middle School ELA/R Teachers
December is a super high-energy time for Middle School ELA/R teachers (and students!) due to the impending weeks of time off that are about to be here. We need extra special help to keep students engaged, and if you’re like me, it’s probably been a hot second since you’ve even
Second Day of School Lesson Plan for Middle School ELA
What to Teach After Your First Day of Class If you’re here with me, then you probably already have a pretty good handle on what you want your very first day of Middle School English Language Arts class to look like. You’ve probably already read the article where I describe
First Day Lesson Plans for Middle School ELA
What to Teach Your First Day of Class Planning your first day of class–whether you’re a seasoned teacher looking for a change or a teacher new to the middle school ELA classroom–is laid out right here for you! Whether you have a 45 minute class or a 90 minute block
Teaching Mood in Middle School ELA
Teaching Mood Activities for Your Middle School ELA Classroom MOOD Writers create it by using words, details, and descriptions to make a story seem gloomy, creepy, imaginary, pitiful, lighthearted, comical, or somber. Of course there are other mood words that a writer can use, but we can stick with these for now!
Methods of Characterization
Teaching Characterization in 6th Grade ELA How Writers Show Characterization appearance inner thoughts & feelings outer actions & speaking what others say about that characters how others treat that character Terms to Know & Teach character traits character attributes protagonist / antagonist direct / indirect characterization static / dynamic characters conflict
The Power of the Old-Fashioned Bell Ringer
Bell Ringers are Still Relevant in a 6th Grade Language Arts Classroom! Let’s Use Them to Their Full Potential! Why I am such a huge fan of bellringers… You’ve gotta have a quick, easy way to start class each day. …Something that’s not going to take up any time to
Five Ways to Get Kids Writing All the Time
Um… Just make them write everything? When I first began teaching English / Language Arts, I was just trying to survive. I even had a principal at the time who expected to see the same thing happening in every classroom. Ugh. So I did what the other ELA teachers did.
