Maximizing Your Time: Fitting Everything into a Class Period
Do you ever feel like you are in a race against time in your classroom, trying to fit everything in before the bell rings? As
The BEST Tip for Engaging Reluctant Readers
Are you looking for a way to spice up your students’ silent reading time? Do you want to introduce some excitement and variety into your
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
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!
How to Teach Literary Analysis to Middle School Students
Teaching Literary Analysis to Middle School students can be challenging. But we truly believe we’ve come up with an incredibly effective and streamlined framework that
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
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,
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
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