Middle Miracles

One of my favorite all-time classroom resources, this edit & revise flipbook is a flexible tool that's easy for students to use on their own. I've used it in the following ways: 1. As a whole class explicit teaching experience, paired with my "Revision Strategies: Edit & Revise Along With Me" lesson. 2. In small groups where students are "experts" on one page and they rotate papers making comments on just that one aspect. 3. As a guide for peer reviews in partners--buy my "Revision Strateg

Spice up your classroom discussions by providing your students with kid-friendly sentence frames that will help them communicate lab results, hypotheses, and observations. These cards are so versatile, you'll use them every week! SCIENCE Academic Discussion Cards focus on the most basic discussion techniques that are often skipped by teachers, such as: -Voicing an idea you thought of -Supporting your findings with evidence -Assessing your hypothesis -Elaborating on something that has been said -

Spice up your classroom discussions by providing your students with attainable, concrete goals and kid-friendly sentence frames. These cards are so versatile, you'll use them every week! Level One Academic Discussion Cards focus on the most basic discussion techniques that are often skipped by teachers, such as: -Adding on to what another speaker has said -Voicing an idea you thought of -Broaching another subject -Elaborating on something that has been said -Agreeing with someone else by sayin

Spice up your classroom discussions by providing your students with attainable, concrete goals and kid-friendly sentence frames. These cards are so versatile, you'll use them every week! Level Two Academic Discussion Cards focus on more advanced discussion techniques to build on the basics you've already established, such as: -Supporting your ideas with evidence -Summarizing a text -Connecting your comments with someone else's -Using a text to guide your thinking -Proving or disproving a point u

Spice up your classroom discussions by providing your students with kid-friendly sentence frames to help them process their multi-step problem solving. These cards are so versatile, you'll use them every week! MATH Academic Discussion Cards focus on the most basic discussion techniques that are often skipped by teachers, such as: -Forming a specific question -Explaining their reasoning -Describing their thought processes -Detailing their problem solving -Asking a question to the group -Requesti

Spice up your classroom discussions by providing your students with kid-friendly sentence frames that'll they'll actually want to use. These cards are so versatile, you'll use them every week! SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY Academic Discussion Cards focus on the most basic discussion techniques that are often skipped by teachers, such as: -Adding on to what another speaker has said -Voicing an idea you thought of -Supporting your thoughts with evidence -Elaborating on something that has been said -Agree

These four sentence starter posters build on each other so they can be used in so many different ways! Think stations, socratic seminars, or room decoration--I put one up at the beginning of each quarter and focus on that discussion strategy for the whole term! These posters are sized 18 x 24, 20x30, 24 x 36, and are ready for printing.

This genre wheel includes the most common genres for middle and high school literature, including some sub-genres. Help students see how genres relate and overlap with this simple but effective (and cute!) genre wheel poster. This download includes 4 different size options: 11 x 14, 12 x 18, 20 x 30, and 24 x 36.

PDF download can be used as an infographic or can easily be printed as a 16 x 30 poster to decorate your classroom. I use this infographic in my classroom to teach comma rules, then I use it as an example for a performance assessment where students design their own infographic using Google Slides to teach a grammar concept or part of speech. It demonstrates great depth of knowledge and students love the artistic freedom!