Students often want to write less. Drabble writing encourages brevity as they are limited to 100 word stories! This guided writing activity also calls for students to engage specific sentence structure in their writing. Additional story starters are included as well as a resource for sentence structure.

To better prepare my students for a quick way to summarize anything they read, I assign a Section Annotation and a Précis for an informational articles, poetry or novels about every two weeks. Students claim this process is easier than all the highlighting rules required for typical annotation of a text. My product includes Rhetorical Précis, Literary Précis and Poetic Précis frames.

Step by step worksheets for students to participate in a classroom debate. Debate is a useful tool in the curriculum as it will give students the opportunity to plan and prepare personal responses to relevant issues. Students will improve listening skills, persuasive techniques and information analysis that will be needed in many academic and life situations.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNING JOURNALISTS. News writing can be difficult for the middle school student to apply. Introduce middle school students to journalism using four-lesson Unit 1. Then follow with the four-lesson Unit 2 - 8 teach additional skills.

A gallery walk allows students to interact with multiple prompts (questions, quotes, images) in a way that generates ideas for further discussion and learning. This novel shares a Christian worldview as it centers on the political persecution of the Jewish population in WWII.

Socratic Seminars are a great way for students to discuss information that they have learned. This practice also prepares them for the collegiate and work world that utilizes the forum for collaboration and consensus. I have developed this Christian discussion as a culminating activity for a chapter that provides both views for student understanding.

Gallery Walks are a great way for students to discuss information that they have learned. This practice also prepares them for the collegiate and work world that utilizes the forum for collaboration and consensus. I have developed this discussion as a culminating activity for a chapter that should deepen student understanding.

Gallery Walks are a great way for students to discuss information that they have learned. This practice also prepares them for the collegiate and work world that utilizes the forum for collaboration and consensus. I have developed this discussion as a culminating activity for a chapter that should deepen student understanding.

A gallery walk allows students to interact with multiple prompts (questions, quotes, images) in a way that generates ideas for further discussion and learning. A gallery walk works well as a pre-reading assignment to engage background knowledge or as a post-reading assignment to generate initial reactions to the text. The Call of the Wild is classic Jack London.

This is a great activity for those 3 days you want to break out a fun and engaging group project. Students will be part of a team that will brainstorm, plan and execute a unique NO COOK recipe to compete in a TEACHER TASTE TEST during this 3 day event. Groups will complete a packet detailing their process. Organizational skills, teamwork and creativity are required.

This GALLERY WALK will engage students. Gallery Walks are a great way for students to discuss information that they have learned in a unit. This practice also prepares them for the collegiate and work world that utilizes a forum of collaboration and consensus. Color and B/W slides are included.

This GALLERY WALK will engage students. Gallery Walks are a great way for students to discuss information that they have learned in a unit. This practice also prepares them for the collegiate and work world that utilizes a forum of collaboration and consensus. Color and B/W slides are included.

Three science gallery walks, and one Socratic Seminar are provided in this bundle. This activity promotes Common Core Speaking and Listening standards as students will be engaged in small group/large group discussion about these science topics.

Each unit has 4 lessons that can be used in homeroom or advisory and will take 10-20 minutes to complete. May be used as a Warm-Up in ELA classes. The student notebook with guided notes help students to stay on task during the lesson and retain the information more completely.

Students move in small groups from Station 1 to Station 8. Gather the class together to share reflections and understanding of the novel. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley shares a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based society.

A gallery walk works well as a post-reading assignment to generate initial reactions to the text. Students move in small groups from Station 1 to Station 8. Then gather the class together to share reflections and understanding of the novel.

A gallery walk works well as a post-reading assignment to generate initial reactions to the text. Students move in small groups from Station 1 to Station 8. Then gather the class together to share reflections and understanding of the novel.

A gallery walk works well as a post-reading assignment to generate initial reactions to the text. Students move in small groups from Station 1 to Station 8. Then gather the class together to share reflections and understanding of the novel.