MaddenintheMiddle

Put kids in districts and have them fight over...PAPER CLIPS! Yep! Paper Clips = currency. Get a question right? Steal half of another districts paper clips. Get it wrong? Donate to the Capitol (aka the teacher)! Random capitol cards get thrown in to change up the game. All about being able to recall and comprehend what they're reading. My kids LOVE doing this every couple of weeks!

Use this slideshow to guide students through this personal narrative packet. The goal of this packet and slideshow is for students to prepare their OWN narrative to be written after gathering all these tools for success!

Here are 21 daily bell work prompts that go along with The Hunger Games.

Here are 17 daily bell work prompts that go along with the novel "Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes" by Suzanne Collins.

I've used this for Literature Circles, but could be easily used for any time you want students to explore 5 new book options! I get this printed into a foldable pamphlet for students to write on! Cuter and different than another ole basic worksheet!

Use this rubric & assignment prompt to have students create presentations on a specific grammar concept. They then use their learning and knowledge to teach the class about their concept. Rubric included!

Use this worksheet to help organize a peer review carousel. A way for multiple students to edit one students work. Can be done in SO many ways, but let this worksheet be your template for success! I used it with my students and they loved this new way of editing!

Get the students up and moving! Have them find a peer to sign the box that applied to them. You can have them work to get a BINGO or have them get a black out so they talk to almost every student in the class! Fun way for them to chat and move right after spring break!

I use this in the first week of school for students to move around and have people sign the box who are able to answer the question OR the statement applies to. This is a great social activity while also getting their brains going on geography concepts.

No matter what novel students are reading, or even a short story/article, this worksheet helps them identify vocabulary and figurative language. Along with identifying what they don't know, they will define it, explain it, use it in a new sentence, and cite it from the text. So many skills in one worksheet!

Here's a slideshow that introduces Signposts (a close reading strategy). I have examples of how this is seen in the movie Toy Story for each signpost example.

Use this group oriented SEL lesson to discuss time management strategies, do an interactive time game, and reflection to help students think more deeply about how they use and manage time!

Review slides already created with review questions aligned with plot and figurative language. Could be used in a variety of ways for students!

Need a way for students to write about what they're reading? Use this slideshow for them to write after they read and reflect on their reading. Can add as many days worth of slides as desired. Consider this their digital journal!

Use this packet for kids to identify, cite and explain how Signposts are seen within their reading.

This slideshow introduces what themes are, types of themes seen in literature, examples of themes in other novels/movies and then practice identifying themes.

Use this notecatcher for students to BOTH organize their learning about Japan's population but also compare to China's population and how both countries are handling this everchanging issue.

Use this slideshow to guide an interactive SEL lesson for students. Activity involved, discussion prompts, and ideas for how to be better active listeners.

After reading the story, "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto, here is a comprehension question worksheet with vocabulary included as well.

Provide students with these holiday grammar slides and have them correct the grammar for each slide. These are holiday themed sentences! You could do it as a direct slideshow where you go slide by slide and check as a class, OR do it as task cards station by station! This slideshow INCLUDES a student printable worksheet to correct the grammatical errors on!