Looking for engaging spring activities for your middle school ELA classroom? This collection of blog posts, classroom activities, and standards-aligned resources for spring holidays will help you celebrate the season while keeping students engaged in meaningful reading, writing, grammar, and language practice.
Spring is one of the busiest times of the school year, and there are a couple of different holidays that fall during this time of the year.
Whether you’re celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, or simply looking for creative ways to review important ELA skills before testing season, we’ve gathered some of our favorite blog posts, activities, and resources for spring holidays all in one place.
We’ve written several blog posts over the years focusing on spring holidays. These blog posts are packed with engaging, standards-based ideas for your middle school ELA classroom.
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with engaging reading comprehension and figurative language activities. This post introduces several ready-to-use resources, including digital escape rooms and a figurative language color-by-number activity that make it easy to celebrate while continuing to reinforce important ELA standards.
Looking for a low-prep activity during the week of St. Patrick’s Day?
Learn about several ways to use our St. Patrick’s Day Digital Escape Rooms as whole-class activities, bell ringers, centers, sub plans, or printable review games. You’ll also find ideas for using individual escape room challenges throughout the week.
Discover how Easter and spring-themed Digital Escape Rooms can help students review figurative language, reading comprehension, sequencing, and plot structure while keeping learning fun and interactive.
These standards-aligned activities are perfect for spiraling skills as testing season approaches.
Plastic Easter eggs aren’t just for candy hunts!
We’ve put together five creative ways to use plastic easter eggs to review sentence structure, parts of speech, reading comprehension, creative writing, and even encourage students before a quiz or standardized test.
Test prep doesn’t have to be boring.
This post shares several interactive review ideas including digital escape rooms, task card scavenger hunts, digital sorting relay races, grammar games, and Jeopardy-style review activities that keep students engaged while practicing important ELA skills.
Since the weather is improving, spring is a great time to get students moving while reviewing the standards they’ve been working on all year.
Here are a few of our favorite classroom activities.
Hide sentences inside plastic Easter eggs and have students search for them around the classroom or outside. Once students collect several eggs, they sort the sentences into simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Assign each part of speech a different egg color. Students collect one egg of each color before writing a short story or poem using every word they found.
Before a quiz or standardized test, fill plastic eggs with encouraging messages for students. Let each student choose one before beginning the assessment to help build confidence and reduce test anxiety.
Fill different colored eggs with characters, settings, conflicts, plot twists, and writing challenges. Students collect one egg from each category before writing an original story.
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, or spring by having students complete a standards-aligned Digital Escape Room. These activities work well as whole-class review, small-group competitions, stations, or even one challenge at a time throughout the week.
Hide ELA task cards around the classroom and let students work in pairs or small groups to solve reading, writing, grammar, or vocabulary challenges.
Turn digital sorting activities into an active classroom competition by having teams race to correctly complete figurative language, sentence structure, or text structure sorts.
If you’re looking for ready-to-use spring resources, these activities make it easy to celebrate the season while continuing to reinforce important middle school ELA standards.
Although these aren’t all specifically themed for a spring holiday, they can be used when implementing some of our spring holiday activity ideas!
Whether your students are hunting for sentence structures inside plastic eggs, solving digital escape rooms, racing through grammar challenges, or reviewing important skills before testing season, these activities and resources for spring holidays help keep learning engaging while reinforcing the standards that matter most.
We hope these blogs, activities, and resources for spring help make the final months of the school year both productive and memorable.
Happy Spring from all of us at The Sparkly Notebook!
