{"id":5691,"date":"2025-10-30T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:38:10","slug":"students-take-the-lead-in-ela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/2025\/10\/30\/students-take-the-lead-in-ela\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Take the Lead in ELA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle schoolers are facilitating class over the next few weeks as we discuss their class\u2019s assigned novels. While this has been the first week for students to lead those discussions, it has been so fun to see them rise to the occasion with their preparation and various techniques to engage the classroom \u2013 from conversations to presentations to trivia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, many of the students are ahead in their assigned reading! Considering many were less-than-thrilled when they learned they would be reading roughly 5-6 chapters a week, it is delightful to see them reading in the morning before classes start and to know they are reading at home. Not only are they reading, they are actively engaging with the text \u2013 and many are quite opinionated on their feelings toward the novel as well as certain characters and events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To engage with your student, you could ask them:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">which week they are leading class discussion;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what chapter they are currently reading;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where their calendar with reading due dates is;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what their opinion of the book\/key characters are; and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what they think is going to happen next in the plot. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle schoolers are facilitating class over the next few weeks as we discuss their class\u2019s assigned novels. 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