The Daring English Teacher

Teach your students how to write an essay with this step-by-step essay writing unit designed for middle and high school ELA. This resource breaks essay writing into clear, manageable parts so students can build confidence and master each component without feeling overwhelmed. Designed for middle and high school students, this scaffolded writing unit walks students through the entire essay writing process, from outlining to a complete final draft, with structured support at every stage. What’s

Keep your students engaged during the last week of school with these no-prep end of year ELA activities for middle school and high school. This resource is perfect for the last day of school, after testing activities, early finishers, or when students are checked out, but you still want meaningful learning.Best for: End of year ELA activities middle school High school end of year English lessons Last week of school activities Last day of school activities After testing activities No prep

Back to school activities for big kids! Engage your new students from day one with these 11 back to school activities and ice breakers that are ideal for the first day and first week of school! This Back to School Activities resource is ideal for middle and high school students, and it is filled with beginning of the year ice breakers and activities to beat the first day jitters! You and your students will get to know each other and start the school year on the right foot with these beginning-o

Make teaching sentence structure fun, engaging, and hands-on! This sentence structure resource is a complete teaching unit with materials for direct instruction, student practice, and assessment. ⭐️ This unit includes both the print and the digital resources!In this unit, students will learn about the four types of sentence structure: simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences. You'll see an immediate improvement in your students' grammar! Here's w

One of the best ways to help students succeed both in and out of a school setting is by teaching this email etiquette unit. By teaching students how to write an email, they will know how to write an email to a teacher, boss, or superior. Email etiquette is an essential skill that students need to know, and after teaching this email etiquette unit, you’ll receive much more pleasant emails. You and your students will love these email etiquette activities in this unit!Now includes DIGITAL RESOUR

Help your students master the art of argumentative writing with this argument writing teaching unit! I created this argumentative essay writing teaching unit with secondary ELA students in mind, and it includes step-by-step and engaging writing instructional materials. This argument essay writing unit includes everything you need for a complete argumentative writing instructional unit, including the print & digital materials. This essay writing instructional unit includes an editable instructi

Create and embrace a growth mindset in your secondary classroom with these engaging growth mindset and SEL classroom resources and activities. These growth mindset activities were created especially for middle school and high school students, and they can be used all year long to reinforce a growth mindset in the classroom. Introduce your students to a growth mindset with the growth mindset student survey and reflection activity. From there, have your students complete an assortment of the incl

Make teaching ethos, pathos, and logos fun and engaging with this rhetorical appeals unit! This comprehensive rhetorical appeals unit includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about the different, effective persuasive and argumentative writing strategies, including ethos, pathos, and logos. ⭐️ This Ethos, Pathos, Logos resource also includes PRINT AND DIGITAL! Teach your students about rhetorical appeals using the engaging and interactive multi-day instruct

Get a full year's worth of parts of speech instruction, activities, worksheets, practice, and assessments with this parts of speech unit! These ready-to-use parts of speech worksheets and teaching units include include both print and digital formats. Do your school students struggle with identifying the parts of speech? This Parts of Speech Teaching Unit includes eight engaging parts of speech units specifically designed for secondary students that will help your students master the parts of spe

Help your students improve their writing by focusing on three key skills: paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. This unit teaches students how to improve their writing skills by focusing on learning how to paraphrase, quote, and summarize text in their own writing! By learning the crucial skill of paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing, students will improve their writing drastically! In this informational writing mini-unit, your students will learn the differences between paraphrasing, quotin

Help your students improve their writing today with this guided essay outline that comes as a PDF print and Google Docs™ teaching resource. This essay graphic organizer includes built-in differentiation, scaffolding, and instruction to help younger writers, struggling writers, and proficient writers improve their writing skills by planning organized, detailed essay outlines. Teaching students how to outline their essays has never been easier with these guided essay outline organizers. Students w

Engage your students in an exciting and comprehensive narrative writing unit with this teaching narrative writing resource! This narrative writing unit includes materials for both a personal narrative writing and a fictional narrative writing and includes everything you need to teach narrative writing to your middle and high school students. Including both the print and digital files!Walk your students step-by-step through the writing process with the materials in this unit. From brainstorming

Teach your students all about short stories and literary elements with a short story unit that works with any piece of fiction. This short story teaching lesson introduces students to short stories, fiction, and literary devices. It includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about short stories, and you can use these organizers over and over again.  This short story unit includes both the print and digital files! Teaching short stories is a breeze with this unit.

Help your students learn how to annotate nonfiction text with this step-by-step text annotation unit! This annotating text resource includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to effectively annotate and closely read informational text. Includes print and digital formats!Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotat

Teach your students how to properly embed, cite, and explain quotes in their writing with this comprehensive teaching lesson! Students will learn four different ways to embed quotes in their writing. This lesson includes ample activities for practice, and students can apply the skill all year long. Includes print and digital resources!From an extensive editable instructional presentation to multiple worksheets to help students practice the skill to invaluable student references, this embedding

Bring grammar to life with this Parts of Speech ELA Escape Room! This interactive and engaging classroom activity reinforces key grammar concepts while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Perfect for middle and high school ELA classrooms, this escape room provides meaningful parts of speech practice through puzzles, decoding challenges, and team problem-solving. Whether you’re reviewing grammar, introducing parts of speech, or just looking for an exciting alternative to worksh

Help your students focus on career and college readiness with a future career research paper! This future career research project will guide students as they research the many different aspects of their chosen future career. This resource includes four different assignment sheets to accommodate all of the middle school and high school grades, multiple research organizers that will help guide students through the research process, career planning and goal setting, peer editing, and grading rubric

Make peer editing effective, accessible, and engaging with these peer editing checklists! This peer review resource includes 3 forms for peer editing that help guide students as they complete a thorough and effective peer review. Includes peer editing checklists for argument, narrative, and informative writing! Now available in print and digital! Provide your students with the guidance and tools they need to become better writers and editors with these peer review checklists. With one form for

This Lord of the Flies novel study unit includes everything teachers need to teach William Golding’s classic novel. This Lord of the Flies unit provides engaging activities, comprehension questions, quizzes, and assessments designed for middle school and high school students. Engage your students in a hands-on, in-depth, and exciting Lord of the Flies novel study! This Lord of the Flies novel study includes reading and analysis activities, vocabulary, writing prompts, graphic organizers, and

Revolutionize the way you engage your students with vocabulary with this year-long academic vocabulary program! If you find yourself dreading, or even avoiding, including vocabulary in your middle school ELA or high school English curriculum, this vocabulary unit is for you! This academic vocabulary unit is filled with engaging vocabulary activities, and it is designed to help prepare secondary ELA students to succeed in your English class. This program is ideal for a vocabulary notebook, daily