6th grade reading

Looking for inspiration for teaching middle school reading skills? Read on to see how I teach the essential elements in a 6th-grade classroom.

Yes, reading aloud to middle school students in 7th and 8th grade benefits them just as much as in elementary school. Immeasurably.

Learn six ways to help reluctant readers gain confidence and improve their reading skills in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.

After part one of guided reading and small groups in middle school ELA, this post outlines what the other students are doing during this time

Discover what a powerful tool a reading log can be in 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, middle school, and for homeschool students. Teachers can easily differentiate reading logs and tailor them to meet all students' needs. Find out how reading logs can be used even in social studies and science. Make reading logs work for you! Learn five easy ways to change up your reading logs so that they do much more than track minutes and page numbers. #readinglogs #5thgrade

In upper grade classrooms, students spend a great deal of time responding to the texts they read. Over the years I have found that no matter what grade level I teach, students have a difficult time writing thorough and meaningful reading responses. At the start of every year my students need quite a bit of guidance when writing their responses. One of the best ways that I have found to teach students to write meaningful responses is by providing them with sentence frames. I like to encourage…

Here's a step-by-step guide for teaching students to identify text evidence and support answers to questions with evidence from passages.

Never planned to homeschool, now wouldn't trade it for the world

Okay teacher friend. It’s finally here. And I’m so excited! I’ve had this resource collecting dust on my computer for years now. I’ve been using this strategy in my classroom for the last few years, but haven’t had the energy or time (teacher life + mom life is exhausting, am I right?) to put it all together so that it’s ready to go for busy teachers like you! Well, it’s finally finished and I finally get to unveil it to you! Did you know I have a FREE downloadable reading response menu…

Looking for ways to spice up your reading comprehension activities with your middle school students? Check out these fun and engaging reading comprehension activities and worksheets for your sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade students. Your 5th grade, 6th grade, and 7th grade students will benefit from the context clues, theme, making inferences, and main idea practice in these ELA worksheets. These activities and Language Arts lessons are just right for students in grades 5, 6…