Middle School Reading

Motivate students with independent reading by adding engaging reading sprints...turn the traditional reading log upside down!

Short stories for middle school - a list of the best short stories for your middle school classroom with tips and teaching ideas.

How I implement and run guided reading and small group in my middle school and upper elementary ELA classrooms

If you're looking for an easy way to introduce reading strategies to students, then you're going to love this FREE set of reading comprehension skills doodle pages. The set includes over 20 pages to help you teach reading skills in the upper elementary or middle school classroom!

Thirty of the best new and classic middle school and middle grade books with diversity and different genres to add to your or your child's reading list.

Teaching struggling readers at the high school level? Scaffold their comprehension by focusing on these four important reading strategies.

Utilize these fantastic reading comprehension resources to help your student develop this skill.

There is no limit to the amount of fun ELA activities English teachers need to keep their squirrely middle schoolers actively engaged. That’s why I’m thrilled to bring you 5 new middle school ELA games to add to your toolbox! Olivia Gold, a creative middle school ELA teacher from Florida, joins us today to share

As much as I love to read, sometimes I dreaded teaching reading. I was reading by four and everything in language arts came easily to me – it just clicked. When I had students that didn’t improve their reading with my strategies, I didn’t understand why. Now that I am working with my son, I […]

With so many of my BIG KIDS struggling with fluency, I worked to make it a part of my daily work with students, a Tier 1 intervention that the majority of the class could benefit from. Reading fluency incorporates three main components: speed, accuracy, and prosody, which directly impact comprehension. While I have shared a great deal about incorporating 6-Minute Solutions, here are a few other ways I worked to make fluency fun for my 6th graders.