6th Grade Ela

Free 6th grade grammar reference sheets for your students and why you should utilize them in your classroom. Click to download yours today!

One breakthrough book can build a lifetime love of reading, so every year my goal is to lead my students to find their “BEST BOOK EVER!”

Check out this list of engaging short stories to use with 6th grade students from 2 Peas and a Dog.

FREE grammar posters for your classroom. Check out my latest blog post to grab these posters, and find out how you can use these with your students. via @teacherthrive

Need some ideas for what to do with your students all year? Are you not bound by a specific curriculum? Check out what a REAL teacher does!

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

Bell ringers are the perfect way to engage your students from the moment they get out their materials at the start of ELA class.

Filler Activities for ELA (blog post) What can you do with five extra minutes in secondary ELA? Here are a few ideas to engage students until the bell.

Anchor charts are a great way to make thinking visible as you record strategies, processes, cues, guidelines and other content during the learning process. Here are 25 of our favorite charts for teaching your students all about writing. This is the first post in the Teaching Young Writers blog series sponsored by Zaner-Bloser's Strategies for Writers.

SUPERQUICK literature centers in the 6th grade ELA classroom Why I use literature centers in my 6th grade language arts classroom I need a way to reteach important concepts …