Mentoring in the Middle
February is Black History Month.  Here are two good books that your students will enjoy! Never Caught tells a little-known story about some...
Is there a way to review reading comprehension skills without making it painful to read a novel?  Yes!   The best way to do that is to let k...
Is it possible to write a book about a tough topic that still makes you chuckle, wince, and cheer middle school characters on? I remember th...
  I've heard from a number of you that there just isn't enough time to teach everything, whether you're self-contained or not.  ...
By the time you come back to school in January, you and your students have been reading passages for a while as you've worked on reinfor...
  Friends, it doesn't get better than this.  For the next two days, if you search the hashtag #Newstart23 on TeachersPayTeachers, you...
  Some students are very curious about climate change.  Others can be frightened by it.  In two of these books, plot twists take students to...