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How to Create an Awesome Short Story Unit for Your Middle School Students: Part 2

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

How to Create an Awesome Short Story Unit for Your Middle Schoolers: Part 1

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

Pre-Reading Activity for Any Novel: Popcorn Predictions

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

My Middle School Classroom Library

There are few things that I love more about decorating my classroom than putting together my classroom library. This year I finally got my act

Romeo and Juliet Pre-Reading Activity

Before beginning any unit, we always like to find a way to get students excited about the text we’ll be reading. In the past, we’ve

Teaching The Westing Game

Hands down The Westing Game is our favorite novel unit we do with our students. It immediately grabs their attention and keeps them engaged the

Task Cards in Middle School: Four Fresh Ideas

Using task cards in middle school can be a great way to break things up and get kids thinking and working in a different way!

ELA Games for the Middle School Classroom

We love playing games in our ELA classrooms! Frankly, it’s a great way to review concepts and keep students engaged. Recently, we created a grammar

Why We Love Teaching Sandra Cisneros in Middle School

It’s no secret that we LOVE to incorporate short stories into our middle school ELA curriculum (click here for our favorite short stories), and one

The 9 Best Short Stories for Middle School Students

We’ve recently started incorporating more short stories into our curriculum, so we thought we’d compile and list share the 9 Best Short Stories for Middle

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Then, pick the date you’re going to teach it in your classroom, and sit back while you watch as your students show up to your classroom pumped about what the day holds…and gush about your class to their parents on the car ride home!