Middle school writing

This narrative writing unit includes three weeks of middle school narrative essay writing lesson plans for teaching your sixth, seventh, and eighth grade ELA students how to write narrative essays. The mentor texts Ghost, Freak the Mighty, and The Outsiders are used as examples for each lesson. The lessons teach all the elements of narrative writing through the use of mentor texts you and students will love using, leading them to write their narratives. Each lesson is broken down…

14 ways to scaffold writing for struggling students in middle and high school ELA #ScaffoldingStrategies #Writing #MiddleSchoolELA #HighSchoolELA

Students will select their topics from 20 different writing prompts. Use these middle school creative writing lessons in your ELA classroom. Middle school students love creative writing when giving choice and engaging writing prompts.

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

Why should you use fun writing prompts for middle school? Learning how to write in middle school is essential for helping kids learn and perfect their

Writing prompts for middle school

As middle school ELA teachers, we all want to work to empower our young writers. They often come to us a little shaky, a little unsure. Teaching students--SHOWING THEM--that writing is a process can help middle school writers to build confidence and skill. Ultimately, our job as ELA teachers is not to teach students to scaffold and support students to write a singular essay. Our job is to give students the tools to become WRITERS beyond our classrooms. That means giving students the tools to…

The beginning of the school year can be such a busy time. Between assessments, teaching procedures, and getting to know a new set of students, teacher

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Curriculum layout- bare bones

Since I don't have a vocabulary book or program that I HAVE to follow at my school, I used to always worry if I was doing enough vocabulary instruction. Even when I was theoretically following best practices or authentically investigating words as they came up in texts, I was concerned about if I was really helping my students become better readers. After a lot of trial and error, I'm now proud of what we do for middle school vocabulary, which falls into four main areas: Specific Words for…

Generating Writing Topics - Musing From The Middle School

Fun reading activities for middle school and high school English language arts! | Lindsay Ann Learning English Teacher Blog

Writing Activity | Free| Increasing a Positive Self Image through Writing | Upper elementary and middle school students will strengthen writing skills as they focus on how great their bodies are with this free resource. #free #writing #selflove

Hooray for 100 writing prompts for middle school students. You can also use these writing prompts for middle school worksheets and more. Yes, take a look now!

Before beginning any writing unit with my middle school students, I always begin with vocabulary but not with boring old dictionary work!

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An engaging activity for descriptive writing

If there are two things my students know, it is that I assign paragraphs often and that I grade writing with very high standards -especially in the second

This narrative writing unit includes three weeks of middle school narrative essay writing lesson plans for teaching your sixth, seventh, and eighth grade ELA students how to write narrative essays. The mentor texts Ghost, Freak the Mighty, and The Outsiders are used as examples for each lesson. The lessons teach all the elements of narrative writing through the use of mentor texts you and students will love using, leading them to write their narratives. Each lesson is broken down…