digital activities for ELA back to school

Back to School Digital Activities for ELA Classrooms

While back to school in 2025 will be infinitely more “normal” compared to the COVID years, many of the digital learning practices we implemented during that time now have an established role in our classroom instruction. Whether you teach in a traditional classroom setting or …

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Summer reading recommendations from my middle school students

Student Selected Summer Reading

Summer reading can be tricky.  As parents, we have this idea that our children should arrive home from the last day of school enthusiastic and ready to tackle book after book until they return to the classroom in August/September!  As teachers, we hope that our …

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diverse books for middle school

5 Diverse Books for Middle School

When I think back to the beginning of my teaching career, which began in August of 1998, while I was an enthusiastic college-grad, fresh from an enriching student-teaching experience, seemingly ready to take on a classroom of well-behaved and on-level students, I truly knew nothing! …

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novel study units for middle school

5 Essential Activities for Novel Study Units

“A writer only begins a book, a reader finishes it.”-Samuel Johnson As a reading teacher, I find that there is so much truth to this statement. One of the essential things that I believe is that it takes a special skill set for students to …

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