PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Walmart Middle School Litercy Initiative
Interactive, student-paced lessons on such literacy skills as categorizing, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, evaluating, determining cause and effect, using text features, connecting, inferring, sequencing, understanding problems...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Wkshop 8: Teaching the Power of Revision
Workshop 8 takes viewers into the classrooms of three language arts teachers-Velvet McReynolds, Mary Cathryn Ricker, and Jack Wilde-as their students tackle the ongoing task of revision. Throughout the workshop, we hear reflections on...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
Need help planning ways to creatively teach your students chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be adapted for...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Writing a Letter
This Skillswise site focuses on letter writing. Included is a video about why it is important to learn about letter writing, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: #7: Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer
Peer response helps students learn how to give constructive feedback to others, an important life skill. "Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer" visits the classrooms of three teachers-fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde, seventh-grade teacher...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Write Your Own Smart Goal
This SMART resource is an activity about helping students write their own SMART goal.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Compare/contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text
Lesson allows for middle school students who are familiar with researching electronic sources to gain a deeper understanding of the benefits of online resources versus traditional print.
Other
Middle school.net: Shakespeare Analysis & Slide Show
Check out this informative site featuring an analysis of Shakespeare. The objective of this activity is for students to analyze a sonnet and present their findings via slide show. This lesson integrates technology into the curriculum.
Maine Historical Society
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: An American Studies Approach for Middle School
The details of Longfellow's life, and the influence of his "Paul Revere's Ride" are explored in this lesson. Extensive materials, links and background information are strengths of this site.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Guidelines for Teaching Students to Read and Write Well:six Features
Building on their research in secondary classrooms, the Center on English Learning and Achievement has developed guidelines that describe six essential features of effective literacy instruction and how teachers can implement them.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading and Writing in the Academic Content Areas
This issue brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education looks at the role every middle and high school teacher must play to help older students become fully literate, and puts forth a four-part agenda for improving literacy in the...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Speaking and Listening: Formal and Informal Speaking
This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
Other
Dong a Newspaper: Korean Children's Newspaper
Well-known Korean children's newspaper website. Articles match general interests of elementary to middle school students: reports on world news, movie stars, singers, sports, science, school news, cartoons, writing competition and study...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding
Teaching students to pay attention to headings and titles as they read? Here you'll find a practical application for using an expository text to apply the concept of using headings. Geared toward older elementary students, but lesson...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Desert Elephants
In this video from Nature, observe elephants trek across the desert to an isolated waterhole. [4:13]
Other
Wisconsin State Reading Association (Wsra)
Learn about the goals, membership, publications, and committees of this affiliate of the International Reading Association. Links also take you to useful reading resources and to its hotline, which allows members to be a part of an...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Number Symbols
This Skillswise site focuses on number symbols. Included are a video which explains how some numbers are used for amounts, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, quizzes on the information presented, and games to practice the skill....
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Place Value
Five factsheets show you how to use digits, place value, place holders and the signs. Worksheets, quizzes, and a game make learning fast and fun. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to adults who are working on literacy and numeracy...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Fractions
This Skillswise site focuses on fractions. Included are a video about why one should learn about fractions, fact sheets and worksheets about fractions, quizzes on the information presented, and several games involving fractions. The...
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: 20 Hour Intro Course
This twenty-hour course introduces elementary and middle school students core computer science and programming concepts.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Making Writing Instruction a Priority in Middle and High Schools
Sometimes writing is seen as the flip side of reading, and it is assumed that students who are proficient readers will naturally be proficient writers. While reading and writing are complementary skills, students do not become skilled...
EL Education
El Education: E Is for Egypt
This book was written and illustrated by sixth grade students at High Tech High Middle School in San Diego, California. As part of a three-month study of Ancient Egypt, students researched topics to feature in this children's alphabet...
EL Education
El Education: Stream Water Quality Report
Middle school students partner with undergraduate students at a local college to test the quality of the surface water in their town. Students gather data and research to write a final report for each of the eight areas tested, and then...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Wv Youth Reporting Project
Use the resources in this collection to learn how a middle school teacher from West Virginia promoted reading, research, interviewing, writing and speaking skills as his students explored some tough issues. Students worked with a public...