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Best of: Engaging Activities to Add to Short Story Units

Are you finding it challenging to keep your students focused and excited during your ELA class period? We’ve got you covered in this episode where

Episode 254: Teach Student-Friendly Short Stories with this Simple Hack

Welcome back to another episode of the Teaching Middle School ELA podcast where we are diving into a simple hack for teaching student-friendly short stories.

Episode 251: Tap Into Students’ Halloween Energy with this Haunted Forest Escape Room

In today’s episode of Teaching Middle School ELA, we have a special treat for you as we dive into the spookiness of Halloween. We understand

4 Quick & Easy Tips for Scaffolding Lessons

When you became a teacher, your goal was to reach every single student in your classroom. From the high-flying scholars who could compose better essays

Batch Planning EB Lesson Planning Approach

3 Engaging Ways to Start Any Literature Unit

Hopefully, you caught last week’s blog post where we laid the basic foundations of our EB Lesson Planning Approach (and touched upon the life-changing concept

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

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

Easy Valentine’s Day Unit for Middle School & High School Students

We know Valentine’s Day can be pretty crazy in the classroom when you factor in the pre-teen/teenager hormones. So, we like to make sure we

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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!