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
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
Creating Essential Questions in Three Steps
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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!
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