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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

Organizing ELA Units for the Year

This year, we both made the shift from teaching mostly novel units, to incorporating mini units of short stories and poetry in between each novel,

Absent Students: What To Do

We like to follow the Boy Scouts’ motto “Be prepared” when it comes to absent students. This means that during the first week of school

Easy Tips to Prepare for Back to School

Between the two of us, we have switched grade levels and schools seven times in our teaching careers! With each transition there is obviously a

The Sub Binder: Why It’s Important & How to Set One Up

Something that’s proven invaluable for us in our ELA classrooms time and time again has been the emergency sub binder we have sitting on our

Quick and Easy ELA Game: Balderdash

We all have those days when an assembly ends earlier than expected and we have twenty minutes to kill before lunch, or the copier breaks

How to Teach Your Students to Write Stronger Leads in Narrative Writing

This week our fifth graders are working on leads in narrative narrative writing. While we’ve read samples, provided brainstorming graphic organizers and outlining handouts, the

How to Run a Socratic Seminar in Your Classroom

We have used Socratic Seminars with our third graders all the way up through our twelfth graders to discuss short stories, poetry, and sets of

Discussion-Based Questions – Three Ways to Add Them to Your Curriculum

Before we dive into the three ways to add discussion-based questions to your curriculum, we think it’s really important that you understand what they are

Summer Reading: A New Twist

This year we decided to switch things up a bit with our summer reading assignment for our incoming students. In the past, we’ve assigned a

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