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Resources for Middle School Teachers


Talking in Class- Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning by McCann, Johannessen, Kahn, and Flanagan

Mechanically Inclined by Jeff Anderson


Recommended Books for Professional Development


PowerPoint for 8th Grade Writing Assessment


PowerPoint for Time Countdown








Links to Houston County Language Arts

Sixth Grade link
Seventh Grade link
Eighth Grade link


Literary Works Protected by Grade Level
unit writing template
unit writing template with differentiated tasks section
variety of checklists

Sample Documentation Sheet for 25 books/million words...Reading Across the Curriculum

Pictures of student work from Mossy Creek Middle School

Pictures of student work from Perry Middle School

Pictures of student work from Thomson Middle School








Book Recommendations

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick

Notes from a Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick

Journey to the Blue Moon: In Which Time is Lost and Found Again by Rebecca Rupp

Punished by David Lubar

Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs