Organizing your language arts classroom to optimize learning and minimize distractions is a delicate practice. This section contains my favorite ideas and resources that I use in my own ELA classroom.
Between homework turn-ins, read-aloud chapters, lesson instruction, questions, and discussions, a middle school ELA block disappears FAST. That’s why it is important to build time-management structures into your classroom routines. Here are 5 ways I help my middle schoolers understand how much time they have …
I’ve graded a LOT of book reports over my 26 years of teaching. Hundreds of five-paragraph plot summaries and the same “the theme of this book is…” sentence matched across every report. The traditional book report follows a predictable template that never really gives them …
One trend I just had to try this year was designing my own classroom banners like the ones you see all over TikTok. My first concern, though, was about the printing quality. Could I design something large enough in Canva, with enough resolution, that it …
Student: “Wait…I know I should know this, but what does that word mean again?” As teachers, we are constantly referring to various terms in our content areas that we want/NEED students to know. To help reinforce the concepts we discuss in our lessons, I designed …
Each day, when my students walk into the classroom, I want them to be ready to go! I want them prepared with the supplies needed for class, and I want to avoid being asked, āAre we doing anything fun today?ā I use daily agenda slides …
2026 is my 26th back-to-school season!Ā But even as an experienced teacher, I’m reinvigorated every back-to-school season when I see all the new faces, teammates, and learning tools that will shape our year together.Ā Over the years, I have written several blog posts sharing my favorite …
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