editable daily classroom schedule template

We also spend a good chunk of time reading our required poems, annotating them, and writing our own. Middle School Poetry and Verse Novel Reading UnitĪfter Christmas break, we go into one of my favorite units: poetry. It’s up there with Mentor Sentences for my favorite thing I have ever created.įor poetry and verse, we use my Poetry and Verse Interactive Notebook and Reading Response Unit alongside our verse novels that we use as mentor texts while we learn all our poetry concepts. We didn’t get through all four quarters, because I was still learning, and I also went on maternity leave for a quarter of school, but I plan to get through more of the lessons this year. So I set out to make my Mentor Sentences for Middle School. I loved the idea of kids using their favorite books to learn grammar. I recently had been hearing and reading a lot about mentor sentences. I then map out what resources I have and start looking for where I need to supplement.Īs you can see above in the year-long pacing guides, I teach grammar all year long whenever I can squeeze it in.

I make sure that everything is taught at some point while still making it a cohesive fit into our units.

I try to align things that fit naturally and our school also works hard to align our ELA learning with what is happening in Social Studies. I get my standards and the curriculum book I am required to use (I work at a Core Knowledge school so we have required literature and non-fiction terms, vocabulary, spelling, phrases, texts, speeches, writing pieces, grammar terms, etc.). I often get asked about how I make these, and honestly, I just kind of get everything I need and make them.

Editable daily classroom schedule template