Writing Strategy: Mind Mapping
This most powerful writing strategy mind-mapping is a MUST for writers, yet so few educators are teaching writing strategies like this very simple one! Many assume students learn these strategies in elementary school, but students need to consistently practice mind...
Teaching Collections Grade 6 Made Easy
Teaching Collections grade 6 made easy? How can you make this rigorous textbook more comprehensible for ALL your students? Do you remember the moment when you cracked open the shiny new textbook, you breathed in the fresh ink, but as you took a closer look, you knew...
Summer Reading Activities for your Middle Schooler
Will your middle schooler read this summer? How about 5 summer reading activities for your middle schooler? Here’s how to get past “hoping” your child will read some great books this summer. None of them require magic.
Selling Teaching Resources Online: Create the Life You Love
Selling teaching resources online saved me. Yes, you read that correctly. Creating and selling my teaching resources online saved me from losing myself in the midst of teacher burnout and sinking into depression. I’m creating the life I love. I want to share...
“Fine” Writing Activities for Grade 6
HMH Collections is often a difficult textbook for students to understand, so here are some helpful hints on how you can teach this great story by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sunday Night Lesson Planning Blues
Sunday Night Lesson planning blues for middle school English Language Arts classes, especially on Sunday nights, can be exhausting. Especially if you are trying something new – a new unit, a new teaching approach, a new story or a new writing technique. To help...
Vocabulary Word Games to Play with Middle Schoolers
Vocabulary word games to play with middle schoolers- Word Work, Vocabulary Diction. All of these terms make learning new words so borrring! That’s why these 5 word games to play with middle schoolers will make your ELA class a lot more engaging. Vocabulary study...
“Black Ships Before Troy” Excerpt Activities
Activities for Black Ships Before Troy grade 6: It is important to engage students when reading this rigorous text. It has a lexile level of 1220. This is several grade levels above the independent 6th grade reading level; therefore, the more preparation…
