Reader’s workshop in the middle school classroom does not have to be overwhelming. Today Kasey Kiehl and I have teamed up to share our best tips for managing the reading workshop model at the middle school level. Kasey and I both use the workshop model in our classrooms and have
Science fiction books for middle school are important to add to your classroom and school libraries. Science Fiction is one of the most popular if not THE most popular genre in my middle school classroom. I cannot keep this genre in my classroom library. Students enjoy reading about life that
Biographies are an important non-fiction text type to teach. Students can get stuck in their own worlds and forget about the great things that are happening outside of their immediate community. When planning out their teaching units, it is important that teachers include biographies as a non-fiction text type or
End-of-the-year lessons are soon going to become very important as the countdown is on and your students’ attentions are quickly dwindling. The important thing is to keep them engaged in those last few weeks in purposeful learning and review. Here are some important tips I have used during those last few
By using highly-engaging rants, your students won’t even realize you’ve channeled their daily rants and complaints into high-quality, writing!
