Reading projects middle school

Tired of the same old end of the year activities for middle school language arts? Try these 16 unconventional middle school ELA activities that will challenge your students’ critical and creative thinking. From creating a magazine to designing an interactive exhibit – these creative final project ideas will help you spice things up in your ELA classes!

How to Teach Character Analysis Using Body Biographies. Have you been searching for a really fun, student-centered, interactive way to eliminate their boredom? Here is a wonderful student-collaboration activity that will get your students involved and excited for a character analysis for any novel, biography study, mythology, current events, or for creative writing and character development. For grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Middle School ELA | High School English #iteach678 #reading

Are you interested in infusing creativity into your middle school English Language Arts classroom? Unleash students' creativity and understanding of their reading with the Book Flatlay Project. Try this middle school book report project for middle school ELA. This photography-based approach to book reports enables students to visualize their understanding of the reading material artistically and expressively. Try this Book Flatlay Project as a middle school ELA activity.

Book reports and summaries are a thing of the past. Engage your middle and high school students with five book report alternatives that will leave them asking for more and, most importantly, building vital reading and analysis skills along the way. 1. Assign one pagers at the end of a novel. One pagers are engaging, allow for creativity, and lead to higher level thinking and analysis. Assigning a one pager is easy and works for any novel. Follow these simple guidelines: • Make it standards…

Learn why one-pagers are one of my go-to activities for breaking down complex topics and texts. Understand what they are, why you and your students will love them, and how to implement them in your ELA classroom. I even have the advice to help you tackle the biggest obstacle you’ll encounter with this activity.

Back to school has always been my favorite time of year as a middle school ELA teacher. There is a buzz of excitement in the air as students enter the hallway for the first time, a little nervous and unsure, but fresh and ready for a new year of learning. I’ve always seen back to school as a huge opportunity for teachers and students. Starting the school year off right provides us with the chance to build a strong community where kids know they’re ideas are valued and their voice matters…

Passion projects have changed my relationships with my students forever.

Fun and educational middle school ELA games for grammar and literacy

Creative and engaging ways to bring art into your middle school ELA classroom.

Looking for unique post-reading activities to inspire students and provide a sample of their analytical skills? Find high-interest strategies for secondary.

Engaging ideas for teaching literary genres in middle and high school ELA #MiddleSchoolELA #HighSchoolELA #IndependentReading

The Fault in Our Stars. Reading Fair Project. Middle School. Family Night & Judging. Eastside Middle School.

Teaching blackout poetry is an engaging way to help spruce up any poetry unit. Show some examples, and your students will be eager to create a blackout masterpiece of their own. Blackout poetry is a type of found poem that encourages students to create poetry from larger texts. This blog post includes ideas for middle school and high school English (ELA). Teaching blackout poetry is your classroom is a unique opportunity to get students thinking about popular poetic devices.

For most of us as English teachers, reading was a love-at-first-sight kind of experience, and while some of our students have that same natural love for reading, others simply have cold feet. Thankfully, it only takes a little creativity and the right reading activity for a love of reading to bloom. To foster this love

At the end of each novel I teach, I like to have my students participate in some sort of culminating literary analysis project that allows me to assess their

It’s no secret that I love a good cumulative novel project as an assessment. I usually spend the entire novel...

Motivate students with independent reading by adding engaging reading sprints...turn the traditional reading log upside down!

If Montezuma had an Instagram account, what would he say when Cortez arrived in…

Matchbook chapter summaries super simple and fun project that you can have your students complete during your next novel study.