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  • Start Literature Circles today with this book club journal. Activities work for any novel.

    Literature Circles: Activities for Literary Analysis

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  • Sale! Reading informational and literature texts bundle includes 53 mini lessons.

    Reading Information and Literature Texts for Grade 8

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  • Use these 25 mini lessons to teach reading informational texts.

    Reading Information Texts

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  • Need help teaching all the reading literature standards? Here are 18 mini lessons to help!

    Reading Literature: 18 Mini Lessons

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These 12 poems seem to have been written just for middle school students. Perfect for discussions and literary analysis. From classic poems to contemporary, this post addresses the poems that middle school students will respond to. Lessons for each poem.Many teachers and districts have hopped on the essential questions trend, but time and time again in my conversations with teachers and administrators across the country, many are missing the point.  Writing an essential question is more than just filling in another box on a curriculum map. They’re more than just a way to kick off a unit. Essential questions should be the vehicles that carry students to their essential understandings of each unit.Many teachers and districts have hopped on the essential questions trend, but time and time again in my conversations with teachers and administrators across the country, many are missing the point.  Writing an essential question is more than just filling in another box on a curriculum map. They’re more than just a way to kick off a unit. Essential questions should be the vehicles that carry students to their essential understandings of each unit.
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