Middle Teach

🏀 iReady March Madness: 14-Team Tournament Kit Turn iReady data into a high-stakes competition with this complete 5-week March Madness Tournament kit! Designed for middle school (7th grade), this resource levels the playing field by using passing percentages rather than lesson volume, ensuring every student’s accuracy impacts their team’s fate. This kit includes everything you need to launch a "Selection Sunday" style event, track weekly progress, and crown a classroom champion with a pizza pa

If you are finding yourself going through seemingly 100s of pencils only for your students to keep losing them, give this strategy a try. Simply hang this poster along with 4 pencils on your whiteboard. I like to use magnetic clips! Students will take a pencil if they find themselves needing one, and leave behind their written name. This becomes an easy check for you at the end of the class to make sure those who borrowed pencils return them at the end of class!

One of my favorite ways to learn more about my students is to have them write me a letter! This activity is meant to be open-ended, but presenting the slide helps those students who aren't sure where to start.

Get to know your students while teaching them how to make their writing more descriptive with this descriptive name poem activity! This is one of my favorite activities to use at the beginning of the school year as an introduction to our first class study, Names, Nombres by Julia Alvarez. I love to pair the poems with a picture of each student to display in the hallway.