We create engaging English language arts resources that help teachers save time! We are full-time teachers and have taught in a middle school for over 20 years. Our goal is to create high-quality resources focused on grades 5-9.
We create engaging English language arts resources that help teachers save time! We are full-time teachers and have taught in a middle school for over 20 years. Our goal is to create high-quality resources focused on grades 5-9.
This Middle School Creative Writing Activity collection is a fun way to get your middle school students writing! This resource guides students through 9 creative writing activities (in both print and digital formats.)
Students are prompted to independently compose an exciting and interesting short story. Each creative writing activity contains a writing prompt that provides the important characters, the setting, and the problem. The students then take the story in whatever direction their imagination leads them!
In this 100-page/slide resource, you get 9 creative writing activities that each contain a graphic organizer focusing on one of the following aspects of narrative writing:
Story Elements
Character Traits
Revealing Characters
Using Dialog
Using Sensory Words
Using Transitions
Elements of a Mystery
Peer Review Opportunities! (Digital Version)
In addition to guiding students through writing a narrative, each activity provides the opportunity to SHARE stories with classmates. This encourages the student writers to communicate with each other and improve their writing.
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Graphic Novel Reading and Writing Project
Narrative Writing Unit for Middle School
Argumentative Writing Unit for Middle School
This Novel Study for The Many Assassinations of Samir, The Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri will help you support your students as they read Nayeri’s engaging and important novel.
This 114-page, low-prep “The Many Assassinations of Samir…” novel study unit contains:
Chapter Summaries formatted for teacher use & distribution to students.
Discussion Questions
Comprehension Activities
Vocabulary Quizzes
Character List
Vocabulary Lists and 4 Quizzes
Student Discussion Question Worksheets
End-of-the-Novel, Multiple-Choice Assessment (Print and Google Form Version)
Supplemental Information Google Slides Presentation
Answer Keys
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This novel study unit for Two Degrees by Alan Gratz has everything you need, including chapter summaries, to support your students as they read Gratz’s thrilling novel.
In this Two Degrees novel study, you will find:
Chapter summaries formatted for teacher use & distribution to students.
Supplemental Information SLIDES presentation
Student discussion question pages
Comprehension activities
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
End of Novel, Multiple Choice Assessment (in Google form version too)
Answer Keys
This 120 page/slide unit is offered in both PRINT and DIGITAL formats.
The structure of the unit allows for easy differentiation to help you support your students in class or in a distance learning environment.
Another resource you might be interested in:
Refugee by Alan Gratz Novel Study Unit
