I’m excited you found my little corner of the internet!

If you’re looking for help teaching your middle school ELA students, you’ve come to the right spot!

Welcome to Just Add Students! I’m thrilled you’re here.

With over 100 posts about teaching middle school ELA, you’re sure to find content that will help.

From how to teach narrative writing to setting up independent reading challenges — you’ll find useful information that you can implement in your classroom today.

I know your time is valuable and I want you to find what you need — here are some tips to navigating the content you’ll find.

What you can find here

Looking for ways to effectively teach writing? These posts will help:

• Teaching writing in middle school
• Using writing workshop with your students

Need help with teaching reading. Check out these posts:

• Teaching reading in middle school

In search of inspiration for what to teach? Read these:

• What to teach this month
• How to teach Blackout Poetry

Find classroom management strategies and tips here:

• Classroom management

You’ll find tips for teacher work/life balance here:

• Healthy teacher

Ways to narrow your search

There are two quick ways to find posts:

1. Go to the right sidebar. You’ll see a “Find it fast” search tool.
2. On the top menu, you’ll see a “Teacher Tools” dropdown menu tab. That will show you the categories for posts. Just scroll down and click on the topic you’re interested in.

But what if I need help teaching today!

I have teaching resources in my shop. You can find lessons you can teach today here:

• Resources you can use today.
• You can find more resources on my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

I’m here to help

You can also contact me. You can do that through the contact form you’ll find here — or direct email at: marypat(at)justaddstudents(dot)com (you know — use the @ and .)

I can’t wait to hear from you —

Marypat