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

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

rack the story floor by floor with this complete reading companion to Jason Reynolds' Long Way Down.This interactive study guide helps students break down the novel’s unique structure while building reading comprehension and literary analysis skills. The elevator metaphor is used to organize characters, analyze figurative language, and plan a final response. What’s Included: Elevator Tracking Sheet – record who appears on each floor and key character info Whole Book Study Guide – questions and

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

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

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

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

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

Escape the Catacombs | The Cask of Amontillado Digital Escape Room Bring Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling short story to life with this auto-graded digital escape room! Students step into Montresor’s catacombs and must solve puzzles on symbolism, foreshadowing, irony, plot, and character analysis in order to escape. Each correct answer unlocks the next chamber—until they reach freedom… or become Montresor’s next victim. What’s Included: Google Form Escape Room (no prep, self-grading, interactive

Bring the Hero’s Journey to life with this interactive superhero and villain design project! This creative resource invites students to design their own hero or villain and map their character’s adventure using the Hero’s Journey framework. Students work individually or in pairs—one as the hero, the other as the villain—to build stories, analyze archetypes, and explore character development. What’s Included: Character design templates (hero and villain versions) Hero’s Journey graphic organiz

Wavelength: Connotation & Denotation Game This interactive activity helps students master connotation and denotation through a Wavelength-style game. Students first complete a worksheet by defining words (denotation) and placing them on a Positive ↔ Negative scale. Then, using the game slides, they reveal the official placement, earn points, and discuss why word choice matters in literature. What’s Included: Student worksheet for definitions and scale placement Interactive slides with scoring

Engage students with symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony through creative design!Product Description Bring Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling short story The Cask of Amontillado to life with this hands-on symbolic mask activity! Students analyze key themes, symbols, and character traits while designing their own symbolic masks to represent Montresor and Fortunato. This activity encourages critical thinking and creativity while reinforcing literary concepts such as symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony.

Looking for a way to teach Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado that’s both accessible and engaging? This resource includes a leveled text adaptation, bold visuals, and English + Spanish versions to help all students access this spooky classic. Perfect for Halloween reading comprehension, fall ELA units, or a short story study on symbolism, irony, and theme. What’s Included: Adapted Leveled Passage: Simplified sentence structures and vocabulary while preserving Poe’s suspenseful tone.

Product Description: Engage your students with this Digital Crime Incident Report activity for Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game. Designed with a true-crime twist, this resource transforms the classic short story into an investigative case file that will keep students motivated and focused. Students take on the role of detectives, completing a crime report where they must document evidence, analyze both Rainsford and General Zaroff, and make inferences about motives, setting, and con

Transform your poetry unit into a high-energy, student-led showcase with this 4-part Poetry Project culminating in a class Poetry Slam. Perfect for middle and high school ELA classrooms, this resource scaffolds students through research, literary analysis, creative expression, and performance. What’s Included: Part A: Poet Selection & Research Editable student research template (PPT) Rubric and example project Encourages student choice with 30+ poet options Part B: Poem Analysis Differentia

Interactive Escape RoomIncludes link to student clue tracker to help them stay organized20 Auto Graded QuestionsSymbolism, foreshadowing, story elements, inferences, and reading questions

Hook students before the first page with this powerful pre-reading activity for Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. This resource includes 10 introductory journal/discussion questions plus a Five Corners–style agree/disagree activity to introduce students to the novel’s key themes: justice, revenge, masculinity, and decision-making. What’s Included: 10 open-ended pre-reading prompts 5 Agree/Disagree statements for four corners or Socratic Seminar Perfect for individual work, partner conversatio

Dig deeper into Poe’s chilling tale with this comprehensive mini unit! This close reading resource for The Cask of Amontillado focuses on symbolism, irony, and theme development while providing creative and standards-aligned activities to support critical thinking and engagement. From a family crest project to multiple-choice assessments, it’s perfect for middle or high school ELA classes. What’s Included: Fill-in-the-Blank Vocabulary Worksheet Family Crest Symbolism Project (with rubric)