Collaborative Lessons

Created with google slides, these participial phrases task cards are perfect for distance learning or face-to-face instruction! This resource includes notes and helpful tips for helping students as they work through the task cards. Featuring movable pieces, this resource allows students to identify, punctuate, and organize sentences with participial phrases. These task cards are a great follow up to assess students' understanding of participial phrases, and also a great way to teach them about

A poem can inspire in the classroom, the bedroom, the kitchen, or on the go. That’s why this middle school poetry notebook is perfect for any teen or pre-teen ELA classroom. Created with distance learning in mind, the poetry notebook helps students read and understand poetry, giving students the tools they need to interpret the wisdom of bards.  The middle school poetry notebook contains a vocabulary drag and drop activity, a figurative language drag and drop activity, and two poetry analysis gr

Learn all about subject-verb agreements using fairy tales. Perfect for distance learning or face-to face-learning environments! Created with google slides, this resource includes 40 sentences for students to practice subject-verb agreement with, as well as tips to get students started. Students will practice identifying subjects and verbs, then they will practice determining whether the subjects/verbs are plural or singular. Finally, students will practice selecting the verb that agrees with t

Created with google slides, this "Mythical Appositives" online resource is perfect for distance learning. This ELA handout is also printer friendly, so you can print slides four to a page to use them as appositive task cards. Appositives are very challenging, especially for middle school students, so this ELA handout starts simple and increases rigor towards the end. Students will start by identifying the best appositive and filling in the blank. Next, students will insert commas in the correc

This notebook contains notes on text structure, text structure vocabulary drag and drop activity, as well as before and after reading activities. The backgrounds are permanent and can not be accidentally deleted. The only moveable pieces are part of the drag and drop activity. Text boxes are already in place so students only have to start typing. This middle school resource is great way to introduce informational text or review previously taught concepts.

This notebook, created with Google Slides, includes annotation key, graphic organizers for anticipation guide, setting, plot, point of view, Venn diagram, vocabulary boxes, and character analysis, and summary.

Great for online teaching or face to face, these fiction vocabulary google slides ask students to drag definitions and match them to the correct vocabulary term. There are 24 terms and definitions, and the answer key is included.  The definitions included in these fiction vocabulary google slides will help students understand the elements of fiction. Concepts like plot, theme, and point-of-view are necessary for dissecting and analyzing great fiction; by equipping your students with these fict

In this FREE google slides created activity, students must document Milo the Mouse's epic journey using prepositions. A word bank and student response sheet are included in the slides. This resource can be useful to introduce prepositions to middle school students or to reinforce the concept with struggling students. I hope your students enjoy this prepositions activity!