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This calendar bulletin board set makes it easy to keep up with the seasons, schedule, and weather with a modern shiplap, chalkboard, and natural wood design!

Decor

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Track your class & individual student data in your secondary. Here's how I Track Data in Secondary Classes! Get your editable copy of Class and Individual Student Data Tracking Sheets! -Family Teach Travel
Young Teacher Love: Math and ELA Data Binders and a Freebie!!
Classroom Data

Data

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Teachers, do your students love using Kahoot as a review game in class? Here's another idea for how to use Kahoot quizzes in your classroom: Blind Kahoot! Use Kahoot games to introduce a new concept in any subject - math, reading, science, spanish - you name it! Your middle and high school students will love this fun activity instead of taking notes. It's a great way to change up your lesson plan!

Bell Work

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5 argument games for creating arguments, counter-arguments, evaluating evidence and reasoning. #teachingargument #argument #teachingdebate #debate skills #secondaryargument #argumentlessons #argumentgames
How to Create a Google Form to Help Streamline Behavior Documentation (a Step-By-Step Guide)

Argument

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Expository Writing Anchor Chart | Expository Writing Hooks Anchor Chart
Writing informational essays will be exciting with this teaching resource that breaks the process down into steps. Easy to follow guided writing outlines for all paragraphs. Perfect for middle school! #InformativeEssay #MiddleSchoolEnglish
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Informative/Explanatory Writing

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Great Controversial Topics for classroom debate and writing ~ Thought provoking free ideas.
Do your students struggle using strong word choice in their writing? This post is geared towards the upper elementary or middle school curriculum and uses the term MILLION DOLLAR WORDS when referring to word choice. It is part of the revising stage of the writing process. It is also part of a series of writing mini lessons designed for scaffolding in writing workshop.

Writing in General

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I like this for giving students alternative ways to think about not only the main/ central idea in informational text, but also begin to consider theme and message within literary text. Click through to the rest of the article for some tips for using this with your readers.
help your students learn to identify the main or central idea of a nonfiction text, then convert the text to a clear, concise summary.
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Central Idea

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Grades 6-8 Context clues practice that includes opportunities to work on inferencing and determining the central idea. Each week focuses on a different unsolved mystery. My students loved this!

Context Clues

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Engagement Strategies reference page - perfect to have out during planning!  From Teacher Trap's "Lesson Plan Pack."
classroom management strategies (for high school and middle school)

Teaching Strategies

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Successfully Using Stations in the Middle School Classroom

Stations

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This Reasons and Evidence set of 32 task cards will give your students solid comprehension practice. Part of the Reasons and Evidence 55 page set or can be sold separately. $
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Practice from Black-EyedSusanScience on TeachersNotebook.com (2 pages)

Claims, Evidence, Reasons

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Don't stress about lesson planning. Use these tips and tricks to save your sanity and time from 2 Peas and a Dog. #lessonplan #lessonplans #lessonplanning #teachers #lessons #worklifebalance #education
Every lesson, every day for an entire school year already planned out. Yes, this exists! FREE calendar for high school English teachers. #highschoolEnglish #lessonplans
Daily Lesson Plan Template # 1 | www.lessonplans4teachers.com

Planning

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I like this idea of a checklist for mini-lessons. We could come up with ideas for all mini-lessons at the beginning of the year using the objectives and units. Once the mini-lesson has been taught, the checklist would help with conferencing discussions.

Mini Lessons

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With back to school around the corner, it is so important in high school (and middle school) classrooms to have a fair, accurate, and simple grading system established. This post details my tried and tested classroom strategy for grading that is perfect for not only 1st year teachers, but ALL!
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Effective Teacher Feedback in the ELA Classroom

Grading

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How many days to America - Awesome anchor chart for inferring!
Using movie shorts in the classroom can be very engaging. Guide your students to make inferences using a Pixar short. The post includes two free graphic organizers to help your students! Perfect to use for any book or video.

Inferences

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Close reading strategies for the secondary classroom. High school close reading. Middle school close reading.
Though close reading may seem like a buzz word, it's not a fancy, newfangled strategy. If your students are rereading a text to gain better understand and deeper meaning, they are doing a close reading. This #2ndaryELA Twitter chat was all about teaching close reading and text annotation. Middle school and high school English Language Arts teachers discussed how they define close reading. Teachers also shared how they select the texts they use for close reading and annotation. Read through th...
Taking the Rocket Science out of Close Reading - The Classroom Key

Reading

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EMBEDDING QUOTATIONS: Tools for Teaching Writing
Anchors Away Monday {9.15.14} Quotation Marks (with FREEBIE) by Crafting Connections!
We've been busy working on narratives in writing (post about that coming soon!), so it seemed like the perfect time to also throw in some instruction on using dialogue in writing and rules for using q

Dialogue/Quotations

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Your students are going to love these 28 anchor charts for writing! Everything from editing to essay writing gets a boost with these helpful reminders.

Narrative (Show - Not Tell)

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This post shares a collection of videos for reviewing or teaching figurative language, including metaphors, similes, hyperbole, and personification.
Teach figurative language using videos from YouTube! Find the 5 Best videos to use in this post from Teaching ELA with Joy Sexton. #figurativelanguage
Digital Figurative Language Anchor Chart - Digital anchor charts take the time and mess out of creating colorful anchor charts. Figurative language anchor charts are designed to display for your elementary and middle school students using Google Sheets. Even better, many pages are editable so you can customize with your own examples of idioms, similes, metaphors, and many more! Perfect for whole group instruction or digitally distribute to students to have them complete their own copy!

Figurative Language

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If you are teaching Theme, Those Shoes is a great book to use as a Mentor Text for Upper Elementary!
Middle School Mentor Sentences for Middle School 8th Grade Mentor Sentence 7th Grade Mentor Sentences 6th Grade Mentor Sentences {Quarter One: First 9 Weeks of Mentor Sentences} Love the idea of doing mentor sentences with your middle school students, but don
I like this routine for studying well written sentences rather than editing one with poor spelling, grammar, etc.

Mentor Sentences

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Teach your students how to "show" and not "tell" in their daily writing.
Helping student with narrative writing is so important. Using prewriting and planning strategies paired with teacher modeling and writing lessons that stress description, writing dialogue, and story elements to create great narratives. Revision strategies that can help writers improve their writing. Perfect for grade 3 writing, grade 4 writing, grade 5 writing, third grade writing, fourth grade writing, fifth grade writing, teaching narrative writing
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Narrative Writing

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Messy teachers... have no shame.
Personal Narrative Essay Sample
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Classroom Management

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TEACHING YOUR STUDENTS TO ELABORATE ON THEIR WRITING Kim Crouch English, Oh My!
(teacherspayteachers.com) Text Features Writing or Reading Notebook Anchor Chart {Informational Writing Unit} Graphic Organizers, Unit Lesson Ideas, Writing Not
Sentence Starters for Citing Textual Evidence and Elaborating

Evidence

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Teaching Fourth: 4 Fabulous Ideas for Teaching Theme
Teaching about theme - some great ideas here. I don't like the one word "themes" on the one anchor chart since they don't correspond to the definition of theme ("the message, moral or lesson..."), but there are some excellent ideas for teaching theme and assessing it here.
Eight experienced high school English teachers share lesson plan ideas for teaching eight important literary themes in meaningful ways.

Theme

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