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English, Oh My! takes great pride in engaging your students with highly exciting and creative middle school ELA lessons, activities, and resources. We understand the unique challenges and opportunities that come with teaching middle school students, and our resources are designed to capture their imaginations and enhance their learning experiences.
I am a middle school English teacher and Technology Integration Specialist, who has been teaching in a district on Long Island for the past 24 years. I have had the opportunity to teach 6th, 7th and 8th English Language Arts, as well as Project-Based Learning and Writing Skills. I love teaching literature and writing, and I love inspiring my students to learn the love of reading. I transitioned to a Technology Integration Specialist two years ago, where I bring my love of technology and teaching to our elementary schools.
I also directed the drama productions in my school for 9 years, and I have had some fantastic experiences with Broadway casts.
I am continually instilling respect and pride in my classroom.
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Plot Structure Activity Plot Diagram Collaborative Poster Reading Activities ELA
This Plot Diagram Collaborative Poster is a great group activity to give your students to help them understand plot structure. Are you working on short stories or a novel study with your students? Do you want your students to work on plot elements, structure, and/or a plot diagram? Then this product is for you! Your students will work collaboratively in a group of four, and each student is assigned to a specific section. Once completed, they assemble their pieces to create an amazing, color
4th - 12th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading
Snapchat™ Article Argumentative Writing Text Reading Comprehension Activity ELA
In this Snapchat Reading Comprehension Passage, your students will look at the pros and cons of the app, work on reading comprehension questions, and participate in argument writing. This product includes both a higher and lower-level article for differentiation purposes. Included with the article are r eading comprehension questions for both levels, as well argument writing extension activities and worksheets.Snapchat™ is a popular app among teenagers, and my middle school students choose thi
5th - 10th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Writing-Essays
CCSS
RI.5.8
, RI.6.1
, RI.6.2
+27
Argumentative Writing Debate Activity Fortnite Gaming Reading Comprehension
This Gaming Argumentative Writing & Debate Topic Product is perfect for your middle school ELA students who love gaming! This three-page article (”Is Fortnite an Addiction or Amusement?”) on the controversy of Fortnite, and it observes both sides of the argument about the video game. Included with the non-fiction article, are 8 multiple choice questions, along with a short-answer question, graphic organizers, and an argumentative writing topic. This product also includes distance learning
5th - 9th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading
CCSS
RI.5.1
, RI.5.3
, RI.7.1
+2
Can You Escape the Fortnite? Digital Escape® Room ELA Reading Activity 7th 8th
In this ELA digital escape room (themed around video games and Fortnite), " Can you escape the Fortnite?", your students will be engaged in a relevant gaming topic, while reviewing skills like reading comprehension, author's purpose, main idea, and other reading comprehension skills. This digital classroom escape is perfect for reviewing skills for state testing. This ELA Digital Escape® Room product is perfect for...Collaboration & Group ActivitiesState Test ReviewA fun, engaging review chall
5th - 10th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RI.6.2
, RI.6.4
, RI.6.6
+3
6th Grade ELA Review Packet Spiral Review Activity Summer Review 6th Grade ELA
This 6th Grade ELA Spiral Review Packet is perfect for practicing crucial English Language Arts skills like grammar, writing, and reading comprehension. Are your 6th graders leaving for the summer? Have them practice these important ELA skills over the summer as they head to 7th grade. Or, are you a 7th-grade teacher and are interested to see what your new students know? Maybe you would like to benchmark their skills? This product is the PERFECT summer packet or review packet for your
6th - 7th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Reading Strategies
CCSS
W.6.2d
, W.6.3d
TikTok™ Reading Passage Reading Comprehension Worksheets ELA 7th 8th Grade
Do you students enjoy social media and TikTok™? Are they singing and performing crazy dance moves in your classroom? Engage your students in this informational text, “The Social Media Sensation-TikTok™ ”. This reading comprehension passage will excite and engage your students! In this product, you are going to receive an exciting, relevant, article about the app, why teens love it, and some of the problems surfacing. In addition, you will receive multiple-choice and short answer questions
6th - 9th
English Language Arts, Reading, Writing
CCSS
RI.6.1
, RI.6.2
, RI.6.3
+42
Also included in: Teen Trends Articles Bundle
Figurative Language Worksheets Color by Number Pages 7th Grade 8th Grade ELA
Use this Figurative Language Activity Color by Number to have your student review figurative devices. Check out this engaging color-by-number activity! Normally, reviewing figurative language in pen and paper style can be rather, well, mundane and boring. I tried to take a relatively common review and make it into a review activity that is fun, colorful, and engaging! In this activity, your students will review the terms with 20 questions on simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, id
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading Strategies
CCSS
RL.6.4
, RL.7.4
, RL.8.4
Walk a Day in My Shoes Empathy Compassion Kindness Activities Middle School
In this "Walk a Day in my Shoes" Activity, you will teach your students empathy, compassion and kindness, an integral part of education, as well as an integral part of a teenager’s life. Teaching a student to “walk in another’s shoes” is an essential part of perspective and character. In this DIGITAL & PDF activity, “Walk a Day in my Shoes”, students will complete journal entries, watch a few short videos on empathy, compassion, and kindness, and complete a shoe activity. This activity will
6th - 9th
For All Subjects
Figurative Language Worksheet Maze Review Activity Puzzles Game 6th 7th 8th ELA
This Figurative Language Maze Review Worksheet is an AWESOME, engaging review activity for figurative language. Figurative language is an important element of the ELA classroom, and whether you are discussing this language in a book or in poetry, authors use figurative language all the time in their craft and in their descriptions. It is so important that your students have knowledge of these terms. *The terms covered in this activity are: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration,
5th - 10th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading
CCSS
L.6.5
, L.6.5a
, L.7.5
+2
Text Structure Digital Escape® Room Nonfiction Reading Passages Activities ELA
This Nonfiction Text Structure Digital Escape® Room is an engaging, review activity for your students to reinforce reading skills and techniques. Do you want your students to review and practice identifying the main text structures- compare & contrast, sequence/chronological order, description, cause and effect, and problem & solution? In this Digital Escape Ⓡ, there are eight different activities, and your students will review: *TEXT STRUCTURES covered in this escape room are: compare & cont
5th - 9th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RI.6.5
, RI.7.5
, RI.8.5
7th Grade ELA Review Packet Spiral Review Summer Review Summer Activities
This ELA spiral review packet is perfect for your students to practice their ELA skills, especially for summer break. Practicing English skills on a consistent basis is crucial, especially when it comes to grammar, writing, and reading comprehension. Would you like your 7th-grade students to practice important ELA skills over the summer as they head to 8th grade? Are you an 8th-grade teacher and are interested to see what your new students know? Maybe you would like to benchmark their skil
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Reading Strategies
CCSS
W.6.2d
, W.6.3d
Literary Terms Figurative Terms Worksheets Color by Number 7th 8th Grade
Review figurative language and literary devices with this color by number review activity! With these figurative language worksheets, you can assess your students’ comprehension and understanding of figurative devices and literary devices. This activity is perfect for this! Your students will answer questions regarding literary devices and figurative language. Each answer asks your students to color in a piece of the mandala in a certain color. This is perfect for...*State testing *Collabora
5th - 9th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading
CCSS
L.6.5
, L.7.5
, L.8.5
Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt 7th 8th Grade ELA Reading Strategies
This Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt is an engaging activity for your students to complete either on paper or digitally for a nonfiction text. This nonfiction scavenger hunt can be used for any informational text. The worksheet asks for your students to find three text features from the list, identify the author’s purpose, analyze the title, and find the central idea of the text. This activity is perfect for:Team or Group ChallengeIndependent WorkCenters and StationsReading Compreh
5th - 9th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading
CCSS
RI.7.3
, RI.7.4
, RI.8.4
+1
Citing Text Evidence Mini-Lesson, PowerPoint
Citing text evidence is an integral part of a writer's understanding and supporting text explicitly, as well as drawing conclusions and making inferences within the text (CCSS.RL.7.1, 8.1, 9-10.1). Citing evidence and citations are an important part of all classrooms, and this resource will teach your students how to cite evidence correctly! This 10-minute mini mastery lesson will have your students comprehending, practicing, identifying, and mastering citing textual evidence in the literature.
6th - 9th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading
CCSS
RL.6.1
, RL.7.1
, RL.8.1
+1
Genius Hour, 20% Time, Inquiry Based Learning, Project Based Learning
Have you been looking to implement an inquiry-based learning project or Genius Hour in your classroom, but you don’t know where to start or how to incorporate this in your classroom? This Genius Hour 40+product of handouts, guidelines, how-to's, rubrics, and everything you need to get started with the inquiry-based learning project, Genius Hour. This is a loaded product, and I will be adding to the product as I continue to do the project! With Inquiry-Based Learning-1. Learning focuses on
5th - 12th
For All Subjects, Other (ELA), Writing
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
+3
Is There a Traitor Among Us? Digital Escape® Room Reading Passages ELA 7th 8th
Can your class solve this engaging digital escape® room? This "Is there a traitor among us?" Escape Room is designed around the theme of the highly acclaimed, popular video game that all the kids are playing right now! Can your class solve this engaging digital escape room? Kids are really engaged in relevant information, and this cannot get any more relevant! Your students will be reviewing figurative language, main idea, words in context, grammar, and other important ELA skills. This esca
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Reading
CCSS
RI.7.4
, RI.8.4
, RI.8.5
+7
Digital Escape® Room Bundle Breakouts Reading Skills Figurative Language ELA
This Digital Escape® Room Bundle is the perfect resource for your middle school ELA classroom. Your students will review reading skills like: *Author’s Purpose *Drawing Conclusions *Inference *Summary *Main Idea *Fact & Opinion *Figurative Language *Cause & Effect *Words in Context *Problem/Solution *Theme What are the positive aspects of a Digital Escape® ?⭐It is NO-PREP! There is nothing to make, print, cut, laminate, clues to hide, buy, or locks to set. Everything is ready for y
5th - 10th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading
Figurative Language Digital Escape® Room Breakout Games Reading 7th 8th Grade
This Figurative Language Digital Escape® Room is perfect for your students to review and practice identifying figurative language like similes, metaphors, and other important figurative devices. Reinforce these figurative devices, skills and techniques. In this Digital Escape Ⓡ, there are seven different activities, and your students will review the following figurative terms and devices: *SIMILE, METAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION, ONOMATOPOEIA, ALLITERATION, IDIOM, HYPERBOLE, ALLUSION, and OXYMORON
5th - 10th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading
CCSS
L.6.5a
, L.7.5
, L.7.5a
+1
Main Idea Escape Room®Activity Digital Escape Room, Digital Breakout ELA 7th 8th
This Main Idea Digital Escape ® Room has your students reviewing and practicing their theme, main idea, and context clues skills. Would you like to try an engaging, review activity with your students to reinforce these skills and techniques? In this Digital Escape™ Room, there are seven different activities, and your students will review and practice their context clue, main idea, and theme skills in this escape room. How the Main Ideas Digital Escape® Room WorksThis digital escape room is
5th - 9th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RI.7.4
, RI.8.4
, CCRA.R.2
+1
Also included in: ALL the Digital Escape Rooms, Oh My! |Distance Learning
Literary Terms Devices Posters Classroom Decor Ideas Bulletin Boards ELA 7th 8th
These Literary Terms Posters are great addition to your classroom decor decorations for your ELA Classroom. This product includes 15 vibrant, colorful Literary Terms and Devices posters that would look fantastic and decorate any ELA classroom! Each poster has the literary term/device, the definition, and a movie/characters to help your students relate and create a visual connection to the device. EDITION # 1-The movies that are included on some of the posters are The Hunger Games, The Wizar
6th - 12th, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
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Experience
English, Oh My! takes great pride in engaging your students with highly exciting and creative middle school ELA lessons, activities, and resources. We understand the unique challenges and opportunities that come with teaching middle school students, and our resources are designed to capture their imaginations and enhance their learning experiences.
I am a middle school English teacher and Technology Integration Specialist, who has been teaching in a district on Long Island for the past 24 years. I have had the opportunity to teach 6th, 7th and 8th English Language Arts, as well as Project-Based Learning and Writing Skills. I love teaching literature and writing, and I love inspiring my students to learn the love of reading. I transitioned to a Technology Integration Specialist two years ago, where I bring my love of technology and teaching to our elementary schools.
I also directed the drama productions in my school for 9 years, and I have had some fantastic experiences with Broadway casts.
I am continually instilling respect and pride in my classroom.
Teaching style
Creativity and color is key in my classroom, as I minored in art. I love when my students are interactive and are out of their seats. If they are engaged and it works, let it be!
Awards & shining teacher moments
I received a proclamation by my county executive for promoting creativity in my classroom.
I have presented at FETC, ASSET, and LITES conferences.
My own education history
Bachelors in English and a Masters in Literacy and Reading
Additional biographical information
Besides being dedicated to my profession, I am dedicated to my family, my darling husband, and my 15 year old son!
I also had a very successful business on Etsy called WordandVerse, which I put on vacation. I was working two full time jobs!
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