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Time to Write
Time to Write
By R.E. Meyers
This book is filled with standards-based activities for developing students' creative writing skills. Time to Write provides creative writing inspiration and practice, and includes teacher notes and student warm-up activities.

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

Exit tickets are a form of assessment that are often used informally to assess how well students grasped a lesson, what ...

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Test Prep Strategies and Practice for Students

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Test Prep Strategies, Tools, and Practice Questions

Help set your students up for academic success with this packet of test-taking tips, test preparation strategies, and pr...

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Geography Activities for Middle School

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Geography Activities for Middle School

Help students explore the world and develop their geography knowledge with this packet of geography activities for middl...

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Teacher Self-Care 101: Coaching for How to Be Your Best Teaching Self

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Teacher Self-Care 101: Coaching For How to Be Your Best Teaching Self

Do you want to take better care of yourself so you have the energy you need for your students? Are you feeling overwhelm...

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Really Good: Producing Synonyms

Present an activity that will have students thinking about synonyms.

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Antonyms and Synonyms

Opposites and similar meanings are reviewed.

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Take Back Your Evenings: An Efficient Teacher's Top Strategies for Work/Life Balance Workbook

Are you spending your evenings working? Do you feel angry and resentful that your work doesn't end when school is out? D...

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Coach's Dilemma

In this creative writing activity, students are given a prompt about a high-school coach who acted badly towards his pla...

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Writing Prompt Worksheet: Coach Poggi's Golden Rule

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Writing Prompt: Coach Poggi's Golden Rule

This writing prompt exercise for middle school students features two real-life scenarios that encourage students to thin...

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