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

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

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.

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

Students can create their own album cover and then explain how the album cover establishes the potential mood and tone of the hypothetical album.

Engage students with a music-based approach to analyzing mood and tone! This modern ELA activity uses album covers from popular artists to help students infer mood and tone using visual clues like color, imagery, font, and layout. It’s editable, so you can switch out album art to reflect current student interests or school-appropriate artists. What’s Included: 8 modern album covers (e.g., Olivia Rodrigo, NBA Youngboy, Zach Bryan) Mood and tone analysis worksheet Answer document (sample respo

This is a reading passage focusing on short a that is geared towards middle school students. At the bottom, it lists directions for each day to help the students pace themselves through the passage. For older students, the passage can be cut to exclude the directions. Orton Gillingham, structures, LETRS, programs applicable.

Make characterization fun and culturally relevant with this creative digital activity! Perfect for Valentine’s Day, relationship-themed units, or any time you want to deepen students’ understanding of character traits, this editable profile template allows students to “create a dating app profile” for a literary or historical figure. It encourages inference, analysis, and voice—all while keeping students engaged. What’s Included: Editable Google Slide template (can be printed or assigned digital

Make plot structure memorable with this mountain-themed visual organizer! This engaging, editable resource compares story plot points to hiking a mountain. Students track a novel’s rising action, climax, and resolution using a vertical layout that mimics a real trail climb—perfect for visual learners and reluctant readers alike. What’s Included: Exposition organizer to introduce characters, setting, and mood Aligned for novels like The Outsiders, Flipped, or any fiction text Visuals include