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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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 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!

Here's a voice and choice option for students to write with 4 options related to Phineas Gage. RAFT= Role, Audience, Format and Topic. Easy one day assignment for students.

25 different grammar task cards for students to decide what makes the sentence complete or accurate! Could do as a game, stations, or lecture style!

Practice adding dialogue into stories with your students. This PEARDECK LESSON helps students edit sentences to add proper quotation marks where people are speaking.

Use these notes to help your students organize their thinking over Author's Writing Techniques for any story.

Students can write a letter to the newest upcoming students. They give them advice, share memories and let your newest class know what to expect. How fun is it to have students reflect and also have something for your new students to read?