Welcome! We’re Caitlin and Jessica, and we founded EB Academics because we wanted to create an online community for Middle School ELA teachers where you can find everything you need to teach reading and writing 🙂 (and to make your…
You’re officially invited to the “12 Days of Holidays” exclusive event! As a way to express our sincerest gratitude during this time of giving, we are hosting a special event over in the EB Academics Teachers Pay Teachers store. Throughout the month…
This classroom management strategy for your middle school classroom is incredibly simple. The goal is to reach 15:00 by the end of each marking period (you could even utilize this strategy weekly and have students try to reach 1:00 or…
We’ve made it! We’re at the end of our 4-part series where we’re walking you through 4 easy steps to creating an awesome short story unit for your middle school students! If you missed the previous posts you can read…
We’ve into part 3 now of how to create a short story unit for your middle school students – and an awesome unit at that! If you missed Parts 1 and 2 where we talked all about the hook and…
Welcome back to our 4-part series where we’re walking you through 4 easy steps to creating an awesome short story unit! If you missed Part 1 where we talked all about the hook, you can read it here. This 4-part…
Welcome to our 4-part series that will teach you how to create a short story unit using 4 easy steps! Using the framework we’re about to share is going to make this an incredibly easy and streamlined process for you…
After 10+ years teaching writing, you can bet we’ve made plenty of mistakes! We want to share with you some of these, but we’re also going to share strategies that you can use to easily fix them. These tactics took…
The way we begin our mornings really sets a tone for the rest of the day. During my first few years of teaching, I didn’t realize how truly important those first 5 minutes of class were. I was always taught to…
One of my favorite things to do before we begin a novel is have students make predictions about what the text will be about. I do this for a few reasons. One, it’s fun! Two, it gets them invested in…
All of those crazy middle school classroom decor ideas you see all over Pinterest? Well they don’t have to be a time-consuming and expensive endeavor! Just because Pinterest and Instagram have you thinking that everyone else has beautiful, HGTV-worthy classrooms, let me tell…
Hi there! We're two middle school ELA teachers with a mission to share ideas, tips, and tricks for effectively teaching reading and writing in the secondary classroom. We're so happy you stopped by!
Caitlin + Jessica
