Teaching middle school english

Since I don't have a vocabulary book or program that I HAVE to follow at my school, I used to always worry if I was doing enough vocabulary instruction. Even when I was theoretically following best practices or authentically investigating words as they came up in texts, I was concerned about if I was really helping my students become better readers. After a lot of trial and error, I'm now proud of what we do for middle school vocabulary, which falls into four main areas: Specific Words for…

Try this free, fun, and interactive middle school ELA games in your classroom to teach grammar and literacy ELA skills!

Engaging teaching strategies and learning resources for middle school ELA and high school English students.

Creative yet Common Core ideas, lessons, and inspiration for Engliah Language Arts teachers. Generally 5th to 10th grade levels.

Middle school reading strategies can be fun and interactive! Get the inside scoop on how I use station reading activities to engage all learners!

Your middle school English classroom is about to get a facelift! Make sure you have these middle school English supplies ready to go.

Teaching grammar can be a little monotonous and it can be a tedious concept to teach in middle school, but engaging lessons for grammar exist!

A blog about teaching middle school ELA and math.

A great blog of secondary English teachers helping you find great ideas to enhance your classroom!

Novel Studies that Promote Higher-Order Thinking We're moving on up! Today's interactive novel workbook is for all of you middle-high school teachers! The Outsiders is next on our journey to teach more hearty novel studies. To revisit the