Christmas Bookmarks When I saw these pretty snowflakes, I decided to skip the traditional Christmas colors for my bookmarks this year. So no red and green this time! Instead, here are bookmarks for your kiddos in silver, purple, aqua, and orange. You can download your copy at the end of this article. And in case […]
Independent reading and reading responses can take up a lot of your time! Here’s an idea that can remove one of those teacher chores – making copies – from this perennial part of language arts teaching. Do you use one particular format for reading responses, or book reports, that your kids complete for their independent […]
TPT’s Back to School Sale is here – Tuesday and Wednesday, August 5 – 6. As usual, everything at Classroom in the Middle is included in the sale at the full discount! Need the discount code? Here it is – BTS25 Here is just a sampling of the resources from Classroom in the Middle that […]
Just a reminder that TPT’s big Back to School Sale is here! So in case you have items stashed in your shopping just waiting for the right moment – the time is now. (Or even if you just love browsing through teaching materials while they’re on sale!) Dates: August 5-6, 2025 As […]
Yes, it’s that time – time to gather materials for the upcoming school year, and especially for the first week of school! To get you started, here is my 2025 bookmark set – you can download it below. And here are some more ideas for beginning-of-the-school-year materials. Back to School Activities This is the table […]
Are you a teacher who enjoys the preparations for the winter holiday season almost as much as the festivities themselves? If you do like this sort of thing, it can be fun and relaxing to shop for those little classroom gifts, make plans for winter holiday craft projects, or bake classroom-sized batches of sweet treats. […]
Here are my 2024 back-to-school bookmarks – a free set just in time to add to your collection of materials for the first weeks of school! Bookmarks are a great little something to give out to your reading or language arts classes, and with four per page, they don’t take a ton of printing. You can download […]
Reading comprehension – it’s such a big subject that it’s hard to know where to start (and where to stop!), but if we eliminate some big groups of topics that are often taught together – such as story elements or text structures, which I’ve covered elsewhere anyway – that leaves us with a good assortment […]
At home, it’s already the time for holiday shopping, and at school the winter holiday season is arriving fast as well. Maybe you even spent part of last weekend planning holiday-themed activities for your classroom, pulling out last year’s December and January activities to see which ones you want to repeat this year and where […]
Are you getting the most from all those sets of task cards that you’ve bought (or made!)? Or do you tend to use a set for one lesson and then just stash it away in your handy task card organizer? You could be getting more out of your task cards! To start, as you accumulate […]
Summer – while it is NOT the free time for teachers that so many people assume it is, it is the one time of year when a teacher can work in a relaxed way! What a rare opportunity – to be able to sit down with a cup of coffee and think for a while […]
Happy spring! Here’s a set of spring bookmarks that I just finished putting together. If you would like a set to print and copy for your students, you can download a copy below. Bookmarks make such neat little prizes or gifts, and with four per page they don’t take a ton of printing. Print them […]
As a middle school teacher, I knew that it was important to incorporate movement into my lessons – to let out some of that boundless middle school energy. But I could also see that movement could get distracting really fast, especially too much movement. That’s why, whenever I create a new set of […]
