Collaborative Lessons

Created with google slides, the dialogue task cards are perfect for distance learning. This set includes 24 dialogue task cards. The dialogue task cards focus on correctly punctuating dialogue. There are 10 multiple choice task cards, 11 task cards that require students to drag and drop punctuation and sentence pieces into the correct order, and 3 task cards that require students to retype dialogue with correct punctuation. The level of rigor increases as students progress through the dialogue

Created in google slides, this compound sentences activity is perfect for virtual learning or face-to-face instruction. Students will practice identifying subjects, predicates, and conjunctions in compound sentences, choosing the best conjunction to combine sentences, insert punctuation in combined sentences, and create a compound sentence from two independent clauses. All the sentences are inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to make the grammar slides more engaging and sustain studen

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 middle school resource includes a mini lesson on combining independent clauses as well as 15 sentences inspired by a popular anime show for student practice.  Students will drag circles over conjunctions, label compound and simple sentences, and choose a conjunction to combine independent clauses. This resource can work for online or face to face learning environments. The backgrounds are not editable. In this ELA lesson: simple sentences and coordinating conjunctions

Created with google slides, this ELA resource will allow middle school students  to practice everything they need to know about complex sentences. This resource includes 4 different practice slides. First, students will practice identifying subordinating conjunctions. Next, students will identify dependent clauses.  Middle school Students will also practice inserting commas where necessary in sentences. Finally, students will differentiate between simple and compound sentences.  This mini lesson

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.

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.

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!

As teachers, we are very familiar with the need to created our own resources, bulletin boards, and anchor charts with minimal resources provided. I created this subordinating conjunctions poster for my classroom with my printer, chart paper, and school laminator. I spent $0 dollars out of pocket, and I was very happy with the result. I hope you find this resource useful in your classroom!

A strong thesis statement creates a clear and focused idea for the entire paper, where the writer sets the stage both for themself and the reader to clearly understand the topic of discussion. This middle school resource includes a matching activity for students to match the best thesis statement to a prompt. It also includes 5 prompts to allow students to practice writing strong thesis statements. This resource is created with google slides making it perfect for virtual classrooms and face to

These posters are free and 100% editable. The R.A.C.E poster breaks down the steps to short answer responses in a way that is easy for students to understand.