Description Tell your students to put on their thinking hats with this engaging critical thinking and discussion lesson built around the Six Thinking Hats strategy. This instruc...
Description Have your students analyze characters from Lois Lowry's The Giver in a fun and engaging way: Character Collabs! Your students will use several characterization metho...
Description Included in this resource is a PowerPoint presentation featuring 200 Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA, specifically designed for 7th and 8th grade. With 200 ready-...
Description Step into a peaceful winter forest with this Poetry Digital Escape Room inspired by “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost. Students will explore a s...
Description This resource for “My Name” by Sandra Cisneros includes before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading activities, making it a meaningful addition to your curricu...
Description “Currents” by Hannah Bottomy Voskuil is a powerful short story of just under 300 words that is told backward, making it an especially compelling text for literary an...
Description “The Pedestrian” is a dystopian short story by Ray Bradbury, set in the year 2053, that draws unsettling parallels to modern society’s obsession with technology and ...
Description This independent novel study project allows students to choose a book of their choice while still engaging in structured, meaningful reading and response work. Desig...
Description These digital picture writing prompts are engaging visual story starters designed to inspire narrative writing and quick writes in middle school and high school ELA ...
Description Have your students analyze characters from Homer's The Odyssey in a fun and engaging way: Character Collabs! Your students will use several characterization methods ...
Description This lesson introduces students to the three types of irony and builds a strong foundation for understanding verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. It ...
Have your students analyze the Major Greek Gods from Greek Mythology in a fun and engaging way through Collaborative Posters! Students will learn the importance of collaboration...
Description This resource provides an extensive short story vocabulary lesson designed to support reading comprehension and literary analysis for any short story or fiction unit...
Description This lesson and activity invites students to write their own original poems while making poetry writing fun, creative, and accessible for middle school ELA students ...
Description “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton challenges students to think deeply about human nature, choice, justice, and consequences. Famous for its unresolved e...
Description “The Hand” by Guy de Maupassant (1883) is a classic gothic short story that works beautifully in a gothic literature or short story unit. Dark, suspenseful, and psyc...
Description Have your students analyze characters from Holes by Louis Sachar in a fun and engaging way: Character Collabs! Your students will use several characterization method...
Description Allusions are an important form of figurative language that shape tone, meaning, and author’s intent in literature. This lesson teaches students how to identify, int...
Description This resource provides a complete literary analysis of “We Ate the Children Last” by Yann Martel, making it an excellent choice for teaching dystopian literature or ...
Description This resource for “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros includes engaging reading questions, a strong activating strategy, and a creative after-reading project, making it a we...
