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As teachers begin planning for back to school, I see an abundance of creative classrooms filling my Instagram and Pinterest feeds. I love seeing how other

Learn how to set up a middle school classroom so that the room looks visually appealing without looking too young for the age group.

Read 180 "Browser" Notebooks Today was our last minimum day of . So, it seemed like a good time to go through the Read 180 pages that I had been working on and put one of the notebooks together. As usual, my goal to work the kinks out of ONE quickly evolved into ALL. I used simple 1 inch notebooks, and ended up using about nine of them. Driving to work this morning, I had one of those brilliant flashes of genius and decided to combine the Graphic Organizers and Quickwrites for each book in…

How I have organized my upper elementary and middle school classroom library while teaching fifth grade, sixth grade, and middle school ELA.

Great ideas and inspiration in this middle school classroom reveal - from decorating to small group areas to hanging posters and anchor charts.

Get ready to start First Chapter Friday in your elementary or middle school classroom! Reading just the first chapter of a novel will get kids excited about their independent reading books. On the blog, there is a free printable book list for you to download! The blog post also provides tips and strategies on how to get started with First Chapter Friday and how to make it successful in your classroom. Motivate and inspire all your readers! (fourth grade fifth grade sixth grade seventh…

hold students accountable while they independently read with these easy to implement reading tips and tricks and strategies

Classroom organization is at the top of teacher's lists right now to ensure their year runs smoothly. Don't miss out on these 8 tips for setting up your middle school English clasroom, whether its during back to school time or any other time of the school year. Follow @sparklynotebook here on Pinterest for more great ELA activities and ideas!

Read 180 Workshop student reminder board to refer to throughout the workshop. I made posters like it to hang up in my classroom after our workshop is done and I wipe the whiteboard clean. The solid boxes with checkmarks help with pacing and showing progression through the workshop. The dashed boxes are for checkpoints/conferences with students.