Middle School Café - A Podcast for Secondary ELA Teachers

About Middle School Café - A Podcast for Secondary ELA Teachers

Are you a middle school ELA teacher looking for practical, proven strategies to help your students grow as confident readers and writers? Middle School Café is your go-to podcast for engaging teaching ideas, classroom-tested tools, and real talk about what works in today’s ELA classroom. Each episode delivers actionable tips to help you close reading gaps, build student ownership, and create a classroom culture where literacy thrives. Whether you're navigating a curriculum, supporting struggling readers, or just looking for fresh ways to inspire your students, you'll find support, strategy, and a sense of community right here. Join a community of passionate middle school ELA teachers working to build confident, engaged readers. Visit www.middleschoolcafe.com (http://www.middleschoolcafe.com) for classroom tools, podcast extras, and resources to support every student on their reading journey.

Publisher

Carolyn Wahl - Middle School ELA

Category

education · education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Nov 2022

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

138 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Reading Strategies: How to Get Students Thinking About What They Read [Ep 85]

   Reading strategies should do more than help students find the right answer in a text. We also want students thinking about what they’re reading, making connections, considering different ideas, and developing their own understanding. But when reading becomes focused on finding information and getting the answer right, those opportunities for deeper thinking can easily get lost. In this episode, I’m talking about how we can help students move beyond simply finding the answer and create more op...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Teaching Author's Craft From the Writer's Perspective [Bonus]

   Literary skills like point of view, mood, dialogue, imagery, and conflict aren’t new to our students. But even when students can identify these skills in a text, they may not always see how they fit into the bigger picture of an author’s craft. In this bonus episode, I’m sharing Voices in Lit!, an original podcast series I created for middle and high school students that uses fictional interviews with classic authors to help students explore familiar literary skills from the writer’s perspect...

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Helping More Students Participate in Academic Conversations [Ep 84]

   You ask a question and wait. A few hands go up right away, while everyone else seems perfectly happy to let those same students do the talking. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the rest of the class has nothing to say. Sometimes students need more time to think, more practice sharing their ideas, or simply some help figuring out how to get those ideas into the conversation. In this episode, I’m sharing how I help students become more comfortable with academic conversations without putting al...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

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91

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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