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Time management 101: A guide for middle school students

By Lumos Libri

This three-day lesson plan and activity bundle is the perfect way to introduce middle school students to time management strategies. They'll practice prioritizing tasks, estimating how much time tasks will take, and using their planners

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Study Skills, For All Subjects

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$2.99

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Coordinating Adjectives and Comma Use

By Lumos Libri

Get your learners up and moving in this lesson on using commas with coordinating adjectives. The lesson plan offers a whole-class game based on Musical Chairs, individual practice, and a visual aid to help students make decisions about comma use.All

Subjects:

Grammar, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Lesson

CCSS:

L.7.2a

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Listening 101: A guide for middle school students

By Lumos Libri

In this 3-day lesson plan bundle, students will not only learn about and practice ways to improve their listening skills, but they'll have fun doing it! After watching a TED talk on improving our listening, students will interact with its ideas

Subjects:

Other (ELA), For All Subject Areas, Study Skills

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

SL.6.1d, SL.6.2

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Study skills 101: A guide for middle school students

By Lumos Libri

In this 4-day lesson plan bundle, students will explore multiple aspects of study habits: the space they use for studying, their learning styles, the pitfalls of multitasking, and testing as a learning tool. Multiple handouts and hands-on (and

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Study Skills

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, Lesson

$3.99

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The Crossover: Novel Unit

By Lumos Libri

Designed to accompany Kwame Alexander's The Crossover, this novel packet contains writing activities, two theme booklets, activity pages covering allusions, theme, and point of view, an objective test, and essay prompts.

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Writing-Essays

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Handouts, Literature Circles

$9.99

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Middle School 101: A guide for student success

By Lumos Libri

This 13-day unit will help your middle school students become their best possible selves at school. Through watching TED talks, playing games, hunting for sounds, researching, and examining presentations by peers, students will learn sound

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Study Skills, Test Preparation

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Games

$12.99

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Full Cicada Moon Novel Pack

By Lumos Libri

This novel pack for Marilyn Hilton's Full Cicada Moon features discussion questions helping readers make personal connections. Writing prompts encourage exploration of personification, simile, and poetic form as well as using text evidence

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.10

$9.99

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Booked: A Novel Unit

By Lumos Libri

In this 13-day novel unit based on Kwame Alexander's Booked, students will focus on making personal and text-to-text connections. The unit begins with an examination of personal reading history and includes both writing and discussion activities.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.6.1, RL.6.10

$12.99

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Rebound: A Novel Unit

By Lumos Libri

This novel pack for Kwame Alexander's Rebound features discussion questions helping readers make personal connections. Writing prompts encourage exploration of personification, simile, and poetic form as well as using text evidence effectively. The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles

$9.99

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Exploring idioms with iPads

By Lumos Libri

In this 5-day unit on idioms, students will not only learn to distinguish between the literal and figurative meanings of idiomatic phrases, but they will also practice good note-taking and visual presentation skills. This unit makes use of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Other (ELA)

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Research, Activities, Internet Activities

CCSS:

RL.5.4, W.5.7

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Parts of Speech Bingo: Literature Edition

By Lumos Libri

Students practice and review parts of speech identification in this Bingo game based on popular literature: The Hunger Games, Divergent, Harry Potter, The Giver, and The Lightning Thief. A total of 30 Bingo playing boards are included.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

$3.99

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Readers' Theater Mythology Writing Project

By Lumos Libri

In this activity, students will transform a myth written as prose into a script to use as Readers' Theater. Included are project directions, a list of resources, and a rubric based on 6 Traits.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Literature, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Rubrics

CCSS:

RL.6.2, RL.6.5, RL.6.9, RL.6.10, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.10, SL.6.1, SL.6.6

$0.99

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What's in a name?

By Lumos Libri

This three-day language arts lesson plan is a perfect way to get to know your students and to introduce language arts skills (and class procedures)! Students will work with figurative language, both fiction ("My Name" by Sandra Cisneros) and

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Back to School

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

$2.99

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Test-taking 101: A guide for middle school students

By Lumos Libri

In this three-day lesson plan bundle, students will think about the purpose of assessment, explore the relationship between attitude and test performance, complete a presentation based on research, learn the signs of test anxiety, and practice a

Subjects:

Study Skills, Test Preparation

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$2.99

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Sentence Variety: Simple, Compound, and Complex

By Lumos Libri

In this lesson, students will explore the components of simple, compound, and complex sentences. In a kinesthetic activity, students will "build" each sentence type, then look for those sentence patterns in their own writing.

Subjects:

Grammar, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

L.4.1f, L.4.2c, L.6.3a, L.7.1b

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Prepositional Phrases

By Lumos Libri

This lesson on prepositional phrases has it all: practice, a writing battle, even an opportunity for your kinesthetic learners to move around. Through movement and action, students will explore different functions of prepositions. Next, they'll

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

L.4.1e, L.5.1a

$0.95

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The Noun Game: Abstract and Concrete Nouns

By Lumos Libri

In this no-equipment-required game, students will demonstrate their ability to distinguish between abstract and concrete nouns. They’ll also get to be creative with words, and most importantly, they’ll have some fun!

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities

FREE

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Social Scavenger Hunt

By Lumos Libri

A fun ice-breaker, this social scavenger hunt encourages students to get to know classmates.

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Back to School, For All Subjects

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities

$0.95

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Fortifying Word Choice

By Lumos Libri

This handout explains four techniques for spicing up word choice.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Lesson

$0.95

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And the letter is . . .

By Lumos Libri

Have 10 extra minutes of class? Need a quiet but fun language arts activity that doesn't require preparation? Play a few rounds of "And the letter is . . ."! This game encourages creativity, collaboration, and fun with language. Students think

Subjects:

Vocabulary, Other (ELA), For All Subjects

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Games

FREE

Digital Download PDF (0.13 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

20 years teaching Language Arts in the middle school

MY TEACHING STYLE

Eclectic!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Board Certified Teacher

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

B.A. English Literature M.Ed. English Education

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Specialty, Other (ELA), For All Subjects, Literature, Study Skills, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Poetry, For All Subjects, Test Preparation