If you’re a middle school ELA Teacher that is bogged down in grading and prep, living with the Sunday scaries, all while feeling like you have nothing to show for it, then you already know that you need to have sustainable strategies and resources in place that allow you to get results while allowing you to go home during contract hours. 

Whether You're...

...a brand-new middle school ELA teacher that wants to hit the ground running with effective teaching resources, strategies, and implementation methods from day one.

...a veteran middle school ELA teacher that is burnt out, tired of working endless hours for little return, and fully aware that there is a better way. 

...a middle school ELA teacher that has some resources and strategies that work and others that don't, but are tired of feeling like you're throwing darts to see what hits and what misses every week because that's just plain exhausting and not sustainable. 

You know that your middle schoolers need direct instruction that allows them to apply their learning immediately, daily opportunities for reading and writing, and consistent feedback from you in order to improve.

You are in the right place and I'm going to tell you exactly The Hungry Teacher's Hub ELA Teacher Membership will give you the tools, resources, inspiration, and support on your journey to being an effective ELA teacher that leaves at their contract hours. 

When you join the Hungry Teacher's Hub,

we will show you how to…

✅ Implement ELA Teaching Methods and Practices that Produce Results 

My middle school ELA students increased their ELA proficiency scores by 70% after just two years of me implementing these teaching, assessing, and planning strategies. The methods and lesson plans in each unit are designed to get students reading, writing, discussing, and analyzing on a daily basis. The results? Students drastically increase their reading and writing volume while improving daily. 

✅ Implement A Daily Lesson Plan Framework 

All of the Masterful Mentor Text Core Reading and Writing Units use the same framework and structure to get you and your students maximum impact: Our Breakdown, Build, Implement, and Ignite Mentor Texts Model does exactly what it sounds like. Teachers and students are set up for teaching success with a breakdown of the concepts in daily standards-aligned lessons so students can build their knowledge, teachers and students immediately implement their learning, and then students have all the tools to ignite their own reading, analysis, and writing. 

✅ Create a Predictable and Engaging Class Period Structure

We'll show you how to implement a class period structure that has your class running smoothly day in and day out, gets students reading and writing like never before, but also utilizes lessons and resources that keep kids engaged. 

✅ Have a Tried and True System to Grade and Assess In Class

Part of what makes students improve so quickly are the systems we teach you to put in place that allow you to assess and grade effectively in class. Not only do you get to go home at night and do whatever the heck you want... but you also give your students daily and consistent feedback for them to apply immediately. 

✅ Adapt and utilize Our Resources to Meet the Needs of the Students in YOUR Classroom 

We include EVERYTHING you could ever need in terms of resources, training, and examples... even if you teach three grades levels of middle school ELA. But we also know that teachers want and need flexibility with any curriculum they're given. We include ideas and strategies for adapting resources to your students and your class periods structures. 

My school provides a curriculum, but it's very difficult to navigate, to change to meet my student's needs, and honestly is so huge it's overwhelming. Things are broken into topical units, rather than into skills, standards, and things that are easy to see what I can pick and choose from. The resources provided via this membership have included so many diverse options, feel less stressful and overwhelming to work through, especially with videos and supplemental things that help me see exactly how to use it. I have LOVED the community that comes with it. Having the FB group to go to when I have questions about different resources, or simply browsing to find inspiration and see how other teachers are using it has been incredible to me. It's easier for me to see another teacher in action, and then try to do the same than to just be handed bundles of materials without a bigger picture idea of how to implement them. 

-Kenzie Caudill, 8th Grade ELA teacher

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What’s Inside The Hungry Teacher's Hub? 

A MONTHLY ELA RESOURCE BUNDLE 

THE MONTHLY ELA RESOURCE BUNDLES 

Every month, we release a brand new ELA resource bundle to our members. Rigorous, engaging, and aligned to standards, we give you everything you need to implement these resources. Each monthly bundle is timely, engaging, and brand-new!  

These resources are perfect to review key concepts, checking for understanding, adding in a little more fun than usual, switching things up when things get a bit mundane, or to enhance core ELA units. 

2022 Monthly ELA Resource Bundle Highlights: 

⏰ Back to School Stations and Reading and Writing Activities 

🔐 Literary Devices Escape Room

📚 Short Story Mini-Units Bundle

💼 Mystery Suitcase ELA Review Games Bundle

💡Poetry Stations

🎉 Figurative Language Escape Room

THE MONTHLY CREDIT CORNER AND THE HUB SHOP 

THE MONTHLY CREDIT CORNER AND HUB SHOP 

You will head to The Credit Corner every single month to access two credits to pick any other resources.

Hub Shop Highlights:

The Hungry Teacher's Hub Shop is jam-packed with 100+ middle school ELA resources PLUS we are adding and updating resources monthly.

✨ Credits can be used in The Reading Room and The Writing Room to select The Heart of the Hub month-long reading and/or writing units. Each unit bundle has daily standards-rich, rigorous, step-by-step, and differentiated for 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade lesson plans.

✨ Credits can be used in The Literature Lounge or The Nonfiction Nook to select complete novel studies, short story units, and nonfiction units that accompany the reading or to pick units that can stand alone.

✨ Credits can be used in The Grammar Gallery to select 9-week middle school mentor sentences grammar unit bundles and/or head to The Bell Ringer Room to select 9-week ELA bell ringer bundles.

✨ Credits can be used in The Hub’s Teacher Resource Shop to select any other Hungry Teacher resources (reference materials, escape rooms, rubrics, exit tickets, graphic organizers, literature circle resources, etc.)

THE HEART OF THE HUB

MASTERFUL MENTOR TEXTS COMPLETE CURRICULUM PROGRAM 

THE MASTERFUL MENTOR TEXT COMPLETE CURRICULUMS 

For those who prefer a proven plan, your membership includes three fully scoped and sequenced middle school ELA curriculums. 

Our Hub member favorite, Heart of the Hub Complete Curriculums are three different 9-month plans, pacing, and resources for your sixth, seventh, and eighth grade ELA classrooms.

We outline reading, writing, grammar, and bell ringers for the year, month, and week for the entire school year. 

Each month you can use your credits to snag the resources and units as outlined in the complete curriculums. Not only is the pacing and planning done for you, but the units and resources are too!

Masterful Mentor Texts Highlights:

Teaching Nonfiction, Literature, Writing, and Grammar in middle school is finally broken down with teacher training and implementation videos alongside the complete units. Your students will actually learn how to read and analyze literature and literary nonfiction texts, write analytical essays, and apply your authentic grammar instruction to their learning. 

Each Unit Includes:

1. Implementation Videos and Explanation
2. Unit resources and lessons
3. Book Clubs Implementation and Resources
4. Digital Resources  
5. Two-Three unique differentiated examples for each lesson for teachers who teach multiple grades or just want flexibility.

NEW LIVE WORKSHOPS 

THE TRAININGS

Three-four times a year, we host a live teacher workshop to support, enhance, and extend your learning, efficiency, and efficacy as a teacher. After each workshop, we will also include a PD certificate that you can submit to your district for approval based on their requirements. 

Live Workshop Highlights:

As members, your input is valuable to us and we develop workshops based on what you need the most. 

✨ Each quarter, you'll get access to sign-up for a Member's Only live workshop. 

✨ Bonus resources and guides to supplement the workshops. 

✨ Next-day access to all recordings, workbooks, resources, and slides. 

✨ PD certificate after each workshop. 

Plus These Bonuses to Make Your Life Easier and Help You Implement Each Resource with Ease 

BONUS #1

MEMBER'S ONLY PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP

The Hungry Teacher's Hub gives you access to a middle school ELA teacher community that will be your source for inspiration, motivation, support (and sanity) as you navigate the school year ahead. 

(A $99 Value)

What You’ll Get:

❤️ Immediate access to our private member's Facebook group to ask and answer questions, share success stories, and learn from Martina and from each other.

❤️ Weekly Hungry Teacher's Hub Happenings Emails right to your inbox to help you create your week with a plan, inspiration, and confidence.

❤️ Member's only giveaways of resources for your classroom (books, PD, supplies) and the things YOU need (Starbucks, Target, DoorDash). 

BONUS #2

FOUR EXCLUSIVE WORKSHOPS

Four of our signature workshops to help you streamline your planning and assessment as well as create dynamic discussions and bountiful book clubs in your middle school ELA classroom.

(A $208 Value)

What You’ll Get:

• Effective Planning and Teaching Workshop + All Three of Our Scope and Sequence Guides in Editable and Digital Formats  (A $57 Value)
• Dynamic Discussions Workshop + Our Exclusive Socratic Seminar Guides and Discussion Rubrics (A $57 Value)
• Bountiful Book Clubs Workshop + Our Book Clubs Implementation and Organization Guide (A $57 Value)
• Successful Assessment Workshop -  (A $37 Value)

BONUS #3

ACCESS TO THE BONUS RESOURCE LIBRARY

You'll get immediate access to our bonus resource library that includes 50+ (and always growing) ready-to-use resources for middle school ELA.  

(An $89 Value)

What You’ll Get:

The Bonus Resource Library currently contains the following and is always growing as we add more bonus resources for Hub Members: 

🎉 7 Literature Resources 

🎉 2 Nonfiction Resources 

🎉 4 Writing Resources 

🎉 3 Poetry Resources 

🎉 5 Grammar Resources 

🎉 3 Speaking and Listening Resources

🎉 5 Bell Ringer Resources

🎉 4 Independent Reading Resources 

🎉 5 Fun Stuff and Holiday Resources 

🎉 6 Teacher Bonus Resources 

BONUS #4

NEW QUARTERLY WORKSHOPS

These quarterly workshops are focused on what middle school ELA teachers actually need. 

(A $200 Value)

What You’ll Get:

 As members, your input is valuable to us and we develop workshops based on what you need the most. 

✨ Each quarter, you'll get access to sign-up for a live workshop for Hungry Teacher Hub Members Only

✨ Bonus resources and guides to supplement the workshops. 

✨ Next-day access to all recordings, workbooks, resources, and slides.

✨ PD Certificates after each quarterly workshop you attend or view replays of.  

I want The Hungry Teacher Hub membership to be exactly what you need as you head into another year (or your first year) of teaching middle school ELA. Real talk...  I know what it's like to spend my own money on stuff for my classroom, so I want it to work for you if you're paying for it! 

My promise to you is that I have created this membership to make your life easier, but if you look around and don't think it's for you, contact us within 48 hours of your purchase and we'll give you your money back. 

I'll refund your money within 48 hours- no questions asked. 

I'm Martina Cahill, the founder of The Hungry Teacher's Hub.

My worst year of teaching ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me... 

In my most recent years of teaching middle school ELA, my students increased their volume of writing from a few sentences each day to almost two pages daily, and their reading volume went from basically nothing to finishing multiple novels during each 3-4 week unit.

Their ELA proficiency test scores increased from 10% to 80% proficiency in just my first two years of teaching.

Despite that huge increase in their reading and writing volume quantity and quality, I literally never brought any grading home.

But it wasn’t always this way.

Prior to teaching seventh and eighth grade ELA, I had been in a sixth grade ELA position that just about had me leave teaching altogether.

My sixth grade students hated reading, produced very little writing, and had minimal stamina or motivation during any of our district and state tests.

I was given a scripted curriculum to "improve student test scores" and it was making my students HATE reading and writing more than before.

I was required to be part of a new teacher training cohort that had to submit lesson plans and would also "improve" and support my teaching, when really it was a time-suck that added even more work to my already-full plate.

I now had triple the amount of students (and grading) than I'd ever experienced. My new school's plan and prep time was half of what I had in my previous school.

We were all bored, I was completely burnt-out by October, and my classroom management was basically just a survival-mode strategy.

I kept wishing that I had a magical solution that would give me useful support and teaching resources that were engaging, flexible, practical and actually helped my students improve.

If they had helped with classroom management, I would have called it the magical unicorn of teaching.

It was my toughest year of teaching, but I always say it was the best thing that ever happened to me because....

That really tough year had me creating my own resources and strategies that did all the things mentioned above. I switched jobs to a 6th-8th grade ELA position....

...And I started creating the Hungry Teacher Hub ELA Teachers Membership. 

It has everything I wished I'd had during that really tough year. Some of it was even created during that first year, as I learned first-hand what types of resources, units, and support middle school ELA teachers really needed.

Before The Hungry Teacher's Hub Membership lines blurred, time was shared, overlapped, and twisted together. I am just beginning to implement the meetings and follow the format, but I love the calm I feel knowing everything is basically done and I just have to re-type everything into my district's lesson plan template. I have not brought one thing home this year to do. I can get everything done during my school hours! The amount of stuff you get!! There's is just so much! All the files, the videos, the examples, the guidance - wow. 

-Jennifer Bermudez, 6th Grade ELA teacher