Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt is a wonderful book to choose for your next 6th grade novel study or to utilize with intervention-level 7th and 8th grade readers. Your students will be on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens to Winnie …
Do you have a reading buddies program in your school? I know some teachers avoid the concept due to scheduling hurdles, but the benefits for both groups of students are substantial. Here are some reasons to implement reading buddies into your middle school ELA schedule. …
With Common Core standards and with so many of our assessments moving to an online format, it is essential that students are able to navigate technology resources successfully and effectively. If you incorporate the Daily 5 framework into your ELA classroom, the Chromebook is one …
Now that the first weeks of school are in the books, principals will begin scheduling classroom observations. On a full-cycle evaluation year, I am observed three times throughout the school year. This includes two scheduled observations and one that is not scheduled in advance. Despite …
Friendships are a big part of growing upādeveloping them, growing them, and maintaining them.Ā Being a middle school teacher, mom, wife, sister, daughter, coach, and friend, I find that friendship themes are a focus in many of my school days.Ā If you teach upper elementary to middle …
America has had plenty of tragedies that are not easy to explain to our children. 9/11 is one of those events, but it is also an important part of American history. Will you be teaching about September 11th this year? If you are thinking about …
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