The longer I teach middle school students, the more I am convinced that student engagement and classroom management connect back to this one thing: how
Across a school year, we teach and have students write in multiple genres: informative/explanatory, persuasive, narrative, and research. When teaching persuasive writing, teachers often default
By the time students reach middle school, the focus of reading instruction shifts to reading comprehension. Do students understand what they’re reading? The purpose of
Mentor sentences have the power to be the bridge between reading instruction and writing instruction. A glue that can hold everything together and make it
Another school year is upon us, and this blog post is dedicated to ELA teachers as we head back for another school year. Do you
iPhone or Samsung? Sandals or Crocs? Cycling or Running? Taylor Swift or Beyonce? Netflix or Disney Plus? Consumers like to debate which is better when
We have seen all the templates and heard all of the buzz words: essential question, unit understanding, priority standards, formative assessments, summative assessments, etc. We
I recently took time to make a list of what worked in our classroom this school year. It’s easy to close the book on a
Anyone who reads my blog or follows me on Facebook or Instagram knows that I love a good anchor chart. I consider anchor charts the
Your students just finished collectively reading a book. Whether that book was read during an interactive read aloud, whole class novel, literature circle, guided reading,
