
Powerful Warm Ups for Your Middle School English Class
To help our students get the most out of our Language Arts bell ringer work / warm ups / “do now” assignments and ensure rigor,
To help our students get the most out of our Language Arts bell ringer work / warm ups / “do now” assignments and ensure rigor,
I’m not sure why I hadn’t discovered this before, but if you are a Google Classroom school, you should absolutely use Google Classroom for absent
Today, I thought I’d share another one of my favorite poetry activities (if you haven’t read this blog post yet, make sure to check it
This post is from the 2014-2015 school year! My classroom design style has definitely changed, but I still love the way this classroom was laid
While we know that one of the best ways for students to become better writers, is to read more, we also know that explicit writing
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
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
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!
Using sentence strips with your middle school students can be a pretty powerful way to get them thinking about writing in a different way. Normally,
One of the things we love about working at a small school is partnering up with different grades and doing projects and mini units together.
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!