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By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 07, 2024 During the 20 years I spent in the ELA classroom, the middle school novel study was something that was always central to my teaching ….
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 08, 2024 The novel study can be the backbone of the middle school ELA curriculum. Exposure to well chosen and engaging texts is crucial to student reading…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 09, 2024 Welcome back to another post in my series on Interactive Notebooks! Today I want to talk all about my favorite novel study of all time…
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is one of my very favorite novels to teach. I sometimes struggle with engaging my struggling middle school boys, and the male protagonist and survival theme really…