In a world where we are overwhelmed with the pressures of test scores, accountability, and limited time, we need teaching materials that will not fail.  As current language arts middle school teachers, we know what is needed, and we know what works.  Our products are  used in our own classrooms!

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	Daily Dose (available for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade) This book provides 180 warm-up activities for you to use at the beginning of each class.  Each day's dose includes a word of the day, a sentence to edit, and a daily question based on middle school language arts standards.  This book is complete with review games, project ideas, tests, and more! $105.00
	A Standard Start (available for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade)  There are 180 days of standards-based questions, one for every day of the school year.  Each day, students will answer three questions.  Standards will be spiraled, meaning on Mondays, they will have questions based on certain standards; every Tuesday, they will cover another set of standards, and so on.  This is the standards schedule that the book follows: Monday - Figurative language, point of view, context clues Tuesday - Elements of fiction, reference skills, writing skills Wednesday - Elements of poetry, author's purpose/craft, making inferences/drawing conclusions or summarize/paraphrase Thursday - Main idea, text elements or graphic features, building vocabulary (connotation/denotation, euphemisms, idioms) Friday - Bias/propaganda, tone/mood, word analysis (Greek and Latin roots and affixes) $115.00
	Daily Dose and Standard Start Package Buy Daily Dose and A Standard Start for your classroom with this package, and save money!  $185.00
	Teaching Unit for Hoot This is a teaching unit for the novel Hoot by Carl Hiaasen.  It includes more than forty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests, writing assignments, and projects.  Make sure you print off our free lessons and a test for chapters 1-7.  If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $20.00
	Teaching Unit for Flush This is a teaching unit for the novel Flush by Carl Hiaasen.  It includes more than forty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests, writing assignments, and more. $20.00
	Hoot and Flush Teaching Unit Package $35.00
	Teaching Unit for The Devil's Arithmetic This teaching unit is for Jane Yolen's powerful novel, The Devil's Arithmetic.  The unit includes lesson plans for every chapter.  Tests, writing assignments, and answer keys are also included.  Be sure to check out our free lessons from this unit and preview the table of contents for this teaching unit.  If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Bud, Not Buddy This is a teaching unit for the novel Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.  It includes more than forty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests,  and writing assignments.  Make sure you print off our free lessons for this book.  If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Because of Winn-Dixie This is a teaching unit for the novel Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo.  It includes more than forty pages and is complete with lesson plans, tests, writing assignments, and more.  Make sure you print our free lessons and a test .  If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas This teaching unit is designed to accompany John Boyne's novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.  It includes handouts, activities and/or questions as well as chapter tests, a final test, writing assignments, and postreading activities.  Our lessons are based on middle school language arts standards, so you will not find just plain generic activities for this novel.  It is more than forty pages, and you can download it right to your computer. You won't have to wait on it to be shipped!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Bridge to Terabithia This teaching unit is designed to accompany Katherine Paterson's novel Bridge to Terabithia.  It includes handouts, activities and/or questions as well as chapter tests, a final test, writing assignments, and postreading activities.  Our lessons are based on middle school language arts standards, so you will not find just plain generic activities for this novel.  It is more than forty pages, and you can download it right to your computer. You won't have to wait on it to be shipped!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Double Dutch This teaching unit is designed to accompany Sharon Draper's novel Double Dutch.  It includes handouts, activities and/or questions as well as chapter tests, a unit test, writing assignments, and postreading activities.  Our lessons are based on middle school language arts standards, so you will not find just plain generic activities for this novel.  It is more than forty pages, and you can download it right to your computer. You won't have to wait on it to be shipped!      $20.00
	Teaching Unit for The Great Gilly Hopkins This is a teaching unit for the novel The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson.  It includes more than forty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests, writing assignments, and more!  Make sure you print our free lessons and a test .  If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit Hatchet This is a teaching unit for the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.  It includes more than forty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests, and writing assignments.  Make sure you print off our free lessons and part of a test for this novel.  If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $20.00
	Teaching Unit for Holes $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key This teaching unit is for Jack Gantos'  novel, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.  The unit includes lesson plans and tests for every chapter.  Writing assignments are also included.  Be sure to check out our free lessons from this unit and preview the table of contents for this teaching unit.   $20.00
	Teaching Unit for Love, Stargirl This teaching unit is designed to accompany Jerry Spinelli's novel Love, Stargirl.  It includes handouts, activities and/or questions as well as chapter tests, a final test, writing assignments, and postreading activities.  Our lessons are based on middle school language arts standards, so you will not find just plain generic activities for this novel.  It is more than fifty pages, and you can download it right to your computer. You won't have to wait on it to be shipped!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for The Man Who Loved Clowns Teaching Unit for The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood   This teaching unit is complete with quesitons, activities, tests, and writing assignments all geared toward the SC ELA standards for the seventh grade.  Our students claim that The Man Who Loved Clowns is the "best novel ever!"  It is an unforgettable, touching story that you will enjoy teaching year after year!  If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  Orig: $25.00 Sale: $20.00
	Teaching Unit for Maniac Magee This is a teaching unit for the novel Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli.  It includes more than forty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests, writing assignments, and more.    If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $20.00
	Teaching Unit for Number the Stars This teaching unit is designed to accompany Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars.  It includes handouts, activities and/or questions as well as chapter tests, a final test, writing assignments, and postreading activities.  Our lessons are based on middle school language arts standards, so you will not find just plain generic activities for this novel.  It is more than forty pages, and you can download it right to your computer. You won't have to wait on it to be shipped!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Rules This teaching unit is designed to accompany Cynthia Lord's novel Rules.  It includes handouts, activities and/or questions as well as a final test, writing assignments, and postreading activities.  Our lessons are based on middle school language arts standards, so you will not find just plain generic activities for this novel.  It is more than fifty pages, and you can download it right to your computer. You won't have to wait on it to be shipped!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Sarah, Plain and Tall This is a teaching unit for the novel Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.  It includes more than thirty pages, and is complete with handouts,  tests, writing assignments, and more! $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Small Steps   This is a teaching unit for the novel Small Steps by Louis Sachar.  It includes more than seventy pages and is complete with handouts,  tests, writing assignments, and more! $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Soldier's Heart This is a teaching unit for the novel Soldiers Heart  by Gary Paulsen.  It includes more than thirty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests, writing assignments, and more! $15.00
	Teaching Unit for Stargirl This is a teaching unit for the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli.  It includes more than fifty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests, and writing assignments.   If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing $23.00
	Teaching Unit for Tuck Everlasting This is a teaching unit for the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.  It includes more than forty pages, and is complete with lesson plans, tests, writing assignments, and more!  Make sure you print our free lessons and a test .  If you purchase this book, you can download it to your computer!  $23.00
	Grammar Gremlins $35.00
	LIFESAVERS ~Revision Practice at its Best Orig: $30.00 Sale: $20.00
	MY PEPPERMINTS ~Revision At Its Best Grades 6-8 (Download it today!) This book provides a step-by-step process to teach students how to revise their writing.  No longer will they simply copy a rough draft and call it done.  This book provides a simple, fun acronym that will help students remember what to do when it is time to write that final essay!     Orig: $30.00 Sale: $20.00
	Extreme Makeover ~ Writing Edition ~Download to your computer! Use the mini-lessons in this book to teach your students how to "tear down" a rough draft and rebuild it with the tools of revision.  Your students will become "design team members" and work together to revise stories and essays. $20.00
	Get Their Heads Out of the Clouds Grades 6-8 (Download it to your computer!) If you are looking for a creative and notable way to teach literary terms and devices to your students, then this is the book for you!  This book includes both handouts to introduce these traits and activities for your students to practice them. Orig: $20.00 Sale: $12.00
	Positively Poetry ~ A Hodgepodge of Poetry Lessons $7.00
	Teacher Treasures ~ A hodgepodge of teacher created letters, forms, checklists, management tools, and more! $7.00
	Welcome to My Fairy Tale ~ a Creative Writing Unit $7.00
	Weak Verbs ~ Dead and Gone $12.00
	Island of the Blue Dolphins Teaching Unit $23.00
	The Cay ~ A Teaching Unit $23.00