
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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,
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
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!