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Routines are so critical for the secondary ELA classroom. One sure-fire routine to include in your classroom is a daily warm-up or bell ringer. Here is a list of classroom routines for the middle school ELA and high school English classroom. #secondaryELA #2ndaryELA #classroomroutines #classroommanagement #middleschoolELA #highschoolEnglish #teachertips #teacheradvice

Routines are so critical for the secondary ELA classroom. One sure-fire routine to include in your classroom is a daily warm-up or bell ringer. Here is a list of classroom routines for the middle school ELA and high school English classroom. #secondaryELA #2ndaryELA #classroomroutines #classroommanagement #middleschoolELA #highschoolEnglish #teachertips #teacheradvice

Ever struggled to help your middle grade students pick books? Or struggled to remember the titles of books you know your students will love? Or struggled to help students who love books in a certain genre or certain category, but don't know what to suggest next?

These genre based book recommendation lists are the perfect solution to help teachers and students find books based on interests. This FREE resource includes six pages of genre based recommendations with book lists in 22 different categories or genres. Ever struggled to help your middle grade students pick books? Or struggled to remember the titles of books you know your students will love? Or struggled to help students who love books in a certain genre or certain category, but don't know…

Want to incorporate more station activities into your high school ELA classroom? Find out how, plus get a big list of ideas to inspire you in this introductory blog post from Spark Creativity.

Have you been wanting to try stations in your Secondary ELA classroom but aren't sure where to start? Read through this quick post where we share 8 station ideas and how to use them with your ELA students.

If you are looking for ideas and inspiration for what a year of reading looks like in 6th grade, take my advice: don't overthink it. I'm going to walk you through what a year in 6th grade language arts looks like (in my district), including a very short and sweet scope and sequence. This language arts curricular map sticks to the basics at a 30,000 foot view. Follow the link and take a peek inside a year in my ELA classroom...

If you are looking for ideas and inspiration for what a year of reading looks like in 6th grade, take my advice: don't overthink it. I'm going to walk you through what a year in 6th grade language arts looks like (in my district), including a very short and sweet scope and sequence. This language arts curricular map sticks to the basics at a 30,000 foot view. Follow the link and take a peek inside a year in my ELA classroom...

I designed a word wall to display academic terminology in my middle school classroom. It is a great way to reinforce the concepts we discuss in a lesson.

I designed a word wall to display academic terminology in my middle school classroom. It is a great way to reinforce the concepts we discuss in a lesson.

5 Tips for Teaching the Writing Process in Middle School ELA

As middle school ELA teachers, we all want to work to empower our young writers. They often come to us a little shaky, a little unsure. Teaching students--SHOWING THEM--that writing is a process can help middle school writers to build confidence and skill. Ultimately, our job as ELA teachers is not to teach students to scaffold and support students to write a singular essay. Our job is to give students the tools to become WRITERS beyond our classrooms. That means giving students the tools to…

If there are two things my students know, it is that I assign paragraphs often, and that I grade them rather harshly -especially in the s...

If there are two things my students know, it is that I assign paragraphs often and that I grade them rather harshly -especially in the second semester. It’s not that I want my students to fail, or that I have a fear of assigning too many As, but more so, this is because I want them to succeed. Students need to master how to write a paragraph before they can tackle an essay. I want my students to be able to write a defined and well-supported paragraph when they leave my classroom so that they…

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You may now create your own personalized bundle of 3 or more resources from my store and save 25% on the bundle! -Click this link and you will have access to the Google Form that allows you to choose the resources from my store that you would like. -Just fill out the form and choose at least 3 and no more than 8 resources to create your personalized bundle. This is a great way to buy what you need for your classroom while also saving money! ELA resources are for 4th-8th grade. #ELABundles
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32 digital task cards feature short nonfiction texts that give students practice identifying or explaining the text structures of cause and effect, compare and contrast, description, problem and solution, and sequence.