Grammar Series Waitlist

Based on teacher demand, I am creating an awesome resource that will be part of the Bellringer Capsule!

The content for The Grammar Series is based on over 600 votes on what teachers, like you and me, think middle school students struggle with the most.

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Savannah Kepley
5 Essential Routines and Procedures for Middle School Students

Maybe you're new to the secondary world, or maybe you just need a reset. Whatever the situation, just know this is exactly what you need to almost eliminate discipline problems and get your classroom running smoothly. Here are 5 routines that will get you going. All routines are tried, tested, and work with are fun middle schoolers.

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Digital and Distance Learning Lessons and Resources

Look at you! You’re amazing just for searching for ideas to help your students. This post is a growing resource for teachers who want to make remote learning meaningful for their middle school students. Click through to find standards based, quality, and engaging digital lessons for your middle school ELA classroom.

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Savannah Kepley
5 Steps to Help Middle School Students Develop an Understanding of Figurative Language

Figurative language is one of my favorite things to teach! Since it is found everywhere, it is one of the first standards we focus on in class. I thank if we can start off the year with a deep understanding of this concept, I can refer back to it again and again as we go through the year. Here are the 5 easy to implement lessons that I use to help students dig deep into their understanding of figurative language.

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Savannah Kepley
Collaboration Strategies for Your Classroom.

Collaboration is great, isn’t it?! It brings students together and not only enhances their learning, it builds those critical social skills students are in desperate need of. Here are my 5 favorite strategies I use in my middle school classroom to encourage collaboration. They are step by step, easy to implement, and low prep (because that’s how this teacher rolls!) Click to learn about the strategies and start using them today. Yay!

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Building Relationships: Activities for the First Week of Middle School

You are a great teacher (that's why you're checking out products related to building relationships) and you know how important it is to spend time getting to know WHO your students are before you jump head first into content. 

This post will give you some ideas you can use to start building relationships the very first week. Click to read more and start planning!

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Rigorous Novel Review Idea: Using Geometry to Form Connections

This novel review is a great way to get students thinking about the connections between characters, events, and personalities. The idea of using shapes and randomly selecting characters makes the students think, talk, and analyze the novel in order to come up with their connections. I love hearing the conversations about the characters and events in the novel as I walked around. They even had insights I never would have thought of! Click through to read how to use this easy, almost no prep review in your classroom today!

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Savannah Kepley
6 Tips for Effective Socratic Seminar Management

After years and years of holding seminars in my middle school ELA classroom, I have come up 6 tips you can implement to help you and your students get the most out of a seminar session! I believe these tips help my seminars run effectively in ALL of my classes (yes, even that class that can’t handle hardly anything) Click to see if there are any tips you can add to what you’re already doing!

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Chasing Lincoln's Killer: Teacher Outline and Lesson Plan Ideas

This is your one stop spot for how to teach Chasing Lincoln’s Killer to your students! I have complied everything I have learned from the years of teaching with this novel, so you can save time and have access what works! This post details exactly how I approach each chapter and specifically outlines the strategies I use to engage students and encourage analytical thinking.

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