Category: Middle School Reading

5 Reasons to Have a Classroom Library

There is something magical about helping students find a perfect book. Seeing their faces light up when they find a book they love, or spontaneous

How to Do a Middle School ELA Reading and Writing Workshop Model

If you’ve ever wondered how to implement a reader’s workshop or writer’s workshop model in your classroom, I got you covered! Middle school ELA reading

How to Alternate Your Units in Middle School ELA

Every year, one of the biggest stressors is looking at pages of standards and knowing you have 180 days to teach it all. It can

Tips for Teaching Author’s Purpose with Nonfiction

Any quick Google search on teaching author’s purpose with nonfiction in middle school will result in lots of PIE related content. As a middle school

Reading and Writing Activities for Back to School in Middle School ELA

Back to school is always a strange time of year. Getting to know brand new students. Adapting to changes in the new school year. Deciding

Four Literary Nonfiction Teaching Strategies

If you’ve had a chance to check out my Nonfiction and Literary Nonfiction Book Clubs Unit, then you know how complex nonfiction can be so I breaking

Using Book Clubs to Teach Nonfiction in Middle School

When you think of the traditional middle school nonfiction unit, it’s probably with all your students reading and analyzing the same nonfiction text at the

4 Steps to Writing Counterclaims in Middle School

When I teach literary analysis, I always give the example of a lawyer in a courtroom. A good lawyer can present their facts and make

How to Teach Symbolism in Middle School

There is the running joke about English teachers that we love to dig for meaning in a text, when there simply isn’t one. This joke

How to Teach Author’s Craft in Middle School

Teaching author’s craft used to be something that intimidated me. Author’s craft sometimes feels like a whirlwind of vocabulary and information. How was I going