A few years ago, I teamed up with my friend Noelle from Maneuvering the Middle to put together our favorite teaching strategies and class management ideas as middle school teachers. This post offers some ideas for homeroom and advisory suggestions to consider for your classroom. …
Reading logs are a tricky thing! I get it! Continuously charting pages and book titles and gathering signatures is just not a method that encourages and instills a love of reading. I understand that we want to keep students accountable for what they are reading, but …
I HATED reading as a kid. I would sit at my desk during silent reading time, stare at a book as long as my teacher made me, and I would daydream. Yup! I said it. I am a reading teacher who DESPISED reading as a kid …
As a veteran teacher, I can share that I am still learning and refining my own practices based on the groups of students that I have the good fortune of working with each year. As you know, no year or group of students is ever …
Novel units are a HUGE part of my ELA classroom. I use them for whole class instruction, in small groups, and for independent reading. Novels provide a unique platform to encourage students to think more deeply about an author’s message. Through the characters, setting, and …
Do you use Google Slides in your classroom? All of my middle school students are issued Chromebooks at the start of the year, and my teammates and I utilize digital resources in Google Classroom on a daily basis. As a teacher author, I’ve also created …
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