Reading strategies middle school

Reading is one thing that many students struggle with. Some students get the underlying messages right away, while others need a little extra help. By the time students reach the high school level, we hope their reading levels have improved from their elementary years. While the majority of students' understanding have improved by the time they reach high school, there are still many students who get frustrated and struggle to read. Below, I will explain and discuss five important and…

When it comes to teaching close reading and annotation, is there anything worse than seeing your students mindlessly highlighting for pages and pages with no real understanding of what they're highlighting or why they're highlighting it? The frustrating part is that highlighting indicates that they're trying, but it often shows that they don't understand why.

Reading comprehension strategies for upper elementary and middle school - tips and tricks for teaching reading strategies.

Do you have students do anything while they read independently? Giving students a task to do while reading, like a reading response prompt o...

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

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

Here are SEVEN engaging activities for the first week back to school in middle school and high school English Language Arts. #middleschoolELA #highschoolELA #English #teachwriting #LanguageArts #backtoschool

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

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 […]