Theme middle school

When doing literary analysis with your students, the theme of the story can be one of the most challenging parts to discuss. The theme does not always have a

Teaching theme will be engaging for your students with videos! Find the 5 Best Videos for Teaching Theme in your ELA classroom.

I began elementary school in the era of phonics. Looking back, I can honestly say that it seemed to work okay. Matching pictures with their word families in plaid workbooks... I learned to read, but

My most popular post is teaching about Main Idea vs. Theme together. It has changed how students think about main idea and theme statements.

This is my 14th year of teaching. Twelve of those years have been spent teaching 6th and 7th graders. And that means that for twelve years, I've been trying to get middle schoolers to wrap

When it comes to teaching, one of the most beneficial things I try to do for all of my students in every lesson is provide layers of differentiation and scaffolding so that I reach as many kids as I can. When it comes to teaching writing, one way I scaffold instruction comes in the form of sentence frames. But first, an anecdote. I’ll never forget my first teaching job. It was a long-term substitute position teaching ninth grade English to students who were severely behind grade-level. I was…

Looking for ways to spice up your reading comprehension activities with your middle school students? Check out these fun and engaging reading comprehension activities and worksheets for your sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade students. Your 5th grade, 6th grade, and 7th grade students will benefit from the context clues, theme, making inferences, and main idea practice in these ELA worksheets. These activities and Language Arts lessons are just right for students in grades 5, 6…

Theme Anchor chart and ideas for teaching theme

Get an outline for teaching all the reading and writing standards in your Middle School ELA class.