Middle Teaching Method

Make bellwork meaningful with this 9-week spiral review of nonfiction skills! Designed to prep students for standardized tests while building essential reading fluency, this resource delivers weekly nonfiction passages alongside targeted daily bellringer tasks. What’s Included: 9 weeks of nonfiction reading bellwork 1 passage per week with daily practice Daily skill rotation: ➤ Greek & Latin Roots ➤ Comprehension & Inference ➤ Grammar/Sentence Editing Easy-to-use student pages & teacher direc

Holliday fluency passage bundle! Over 50 fluency PassagesDifferent LengthDyslexic Friendly FontsCute GraphicsPassages starting at 100 words to 300 wordsEach line is numbered for easy word countingFocused on Compound CVC wordsDecodableHigh Interest at a Low Level

This is a no-prep Google Form that automatically assigns students to a cabin based on their answers! This is a great way to get students invested in the book and to get to know them better!

Dive into the world of Percy Jackson with this comprehensive novel study guide bundle—perfect for middle school ELA classrooms! This resource includes engaging, standards-aligned activities for every chapter of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Whether you're teaching in person or virtually, this flexible resource offers both digital and printable formats to meet your needs. Each chapter set includes: ✔️ Reading comprehension questions ✔️ Literary analysis tasks (quote

Bring Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief to life with this engaging and ready-to-use unit bundle! Perfect for middle school ELA, this resource pack combines comprehension, creativity, and interactivity to help your students connect deeply with Rick Riordan’s epic adventure. What’s Included: Comprehensive Study Guide – Chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions, vocabulary, and discussion prompts to ensure students understand the plot, characters, and themes. Virtual Field Tri

Bring The Lightning Thief to life with this creative and symbolic character analysis project! Students design their own “flying shoe” to represent one of the characters in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. After designing, students write a paragraph explaining the symbolism behind their shoe design. With differentiated writing scaffolds, this activity works for a wide range of learners and adds a creative spark to literature study. What’s Included: Shoe design template for artistic and symbolic

Turn your classroom into a crime scene investigation with this interactive inference activity! Students step into the role of detectives to uncover what really happened to Billy in Roald Dahl’s The Landlady. Using textual clues, photographs, and guiding questions, students work through six inference-based prompts and cite textual evidence to support their claims. Perfect for practicing close reading and critical thinking in a fun, immersive way! What’s Included: 6 inference prompts focused on

Help students visualize Yanek’s harrowing journey across WWII Europe.This interactive map and timeline resource helps students track important locations, events, and dates from Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz. Perfect for close reading, comprehension, and historical context, this activity builds engagement through geography and chronology. What’s Included: Student Map & Answer Key tracking Yanek’s route through Germany and Poland Timeline Worksheet to sequence key events from the novel "Impo

Get your students engaged in analyzing character with a fun twist!This Character Autopsy digital activity transforms traditional character analysis into an interactive and investigative experience. Perfect for middle and high school ELA classrooms (grades 6–10), students "examine" a character using the STEAL method (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks) to determine what truly makes them tick. This activity works well as: A supplement to a novel study or short story A creat

Before reading Refugee by Alan Gratz, students step into the shoes of Josef, Isabel, or Mahmoud and imagine they must flee their home with only a single suitcase. They choose 10 items to pack—balancing health, safety, survival, comfort, identity, and sentiment. This engaging, empathetic activity helps students connect personally to the characters and themes of Refugee, making it the perfect way to launch a novel study or literature circle. What’s Included: 10-box suitcase drawing template (d

According to Forbes.com Ebenezer Scrooge is the 6th wealthiest fictional character of all time. They place his net worth at around 8 BILLION DOLLARS. Use this presentation to help you spend his 8 billion dollars. What will students spend it on? How much will they have left? Students will become engaged in the reading before beginning the story. This activity allows students to understand Scrooge's emmense wealth fully and allows them to full grasp the theme of A Christmas Carol.

Engage your students with this interactive and literary bundle for Roald Dahl’s The Landlady! This three-in-one resource blends critical thinking with creativity through symbolism, inference, and interactive escape room activities. Perfect for middle schoolers who love mystery and teachers who want deeper text analysis. What's Included: Teacup Symbolism One-Pager – students explore meaningful symbols through art and writing Solve the Case! Inference Organizer – a logic-driven close reading a

Bring Greek mythology to life with this Percy Jackson MET Virtual Field Trip — the perfect introduction to Rick Riordan’s world of gods, heroes, and monsters! Students will explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art virtually, uncovering the myths behind stunning Greek, Roman, and European artworks featured in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. This engaging digital resource includes: ✅ An interactive virtual tour with embedded links to authentic MET artwork ✅ An audio tour guide (t

Daily reading passages each focusing on a different short vowel sound. There is a different objectives and instructions for each day. Great for middle schoolers.

This Book Playlist Project combines music and literature to help students make meaningful connections to characters, scenes, and themes. It is designed to increase engagement and support deeper analysis during independent reading. What’s Included Google Slides template (ready to assign) Built-in student directions 10 structured song entries Paragraph writing and text evidence expectations Preview included: Student Tasks Students create a 10-song playlist connected to their book: Charac

10 PassagesDifferent LengthDyslexic Friendly FontsCute Graphics Passages starting at 100 words to 300 wordsEach line is numbered for easy word counting Focused on Compound CVC wordsDecodable High Interest at a Low Level

Bring Ghost to life with this creative and symbolic character analysis project! Students design their own “custom jersey” to represent one of the characters in Ghost. After designing, students write a paragraph explaining the symbolism behind their shoe design. With differentiated writing scaffolds, this activity works for a wide range of learners and adds a creative spark to literature study. What’s Included: Jersey template for artistic and symbolic representation 2 levels of writing suppor

Bring Edgar Allan Poe’s classic to life with this highly engaging, hands-on literature activity that turns your classroom into a crime scene investigation. In this interactive lesson, students become detectives as they analyze clues, make inferences, and uncover the dark truth behind The Cask of Amontillado.Designed to promote close reading, critical thinking, and textual evidence analysis, this activity transforms Poe’s short story into a literary mystery your students will never forget. Perfe

Build reading fluency and background knowledge with this February-themed informational text bundle! This resource includes five engaging, student-friendly passages focused on holidays and observances commonly taught in February. Each passage is written in clear, accessible language, making it perfect for fluency practice, close reading, and comprehension instruction. These texts are ideal for upper elementary and middle school ELA, intervention groups, sub plans, or cross-curricular social st

Bring your literature unit to life with this hands-on creative project that helps students analyze plot elements, theme, and symbolism through custom-designed trading cards! In this flexible and engaging activity, students become “story designers,” creating a set of four plot-element trading cards that visually and textually represent key parts of a novel or short story. Each card blends symbolic imagery, textual evidence, and literary analysis—perfect for kinesthetic and visual learners. Use th