Free LIVE Training for Middle School ELA Teacher

The 3-Step Method to Create Your Dream ELA Class Period + School Year:

The Teaching Framework That Leads to Real Gains—Without Losing Your Soul to Test Prep
(Yes, you can raise the bar and keep your values.)

What You'll Learn:

  • The Perfect Class Period Formula: How to structure your ELA block to maximize teaching, minimize chaos, and make space for the things that actually help students grow.
  • Frameworks That Fit YOUR Style: How to choose teaching systems that align with your philosophy, boost student engagement, and reduce grading—no cookie-cutter models here.
  • Teach It All—Without Teaching It All Daily: Use the Alternating Unit Strategy to cover every reading, writing, grammar, and speaking & listening standard—without burning out.
  • Lesson Planning That Sticks: Build scaffolded lessons that combine rigor and simplicity so students are doing the thinking ((not you)).
  • In-Class Feedback That Replaces Grading at Home
    How to use conferences and built-in feedback loops to assess students in class and stop taking stacks of work home.
SAVE YOUR SEAT!

It’s time to stop winging it and start building the ELA class period you’ve been dreaming of.

YOU CAN FIT EVERY STANDARD INTO YOUR SCHEDULE—WITHOUT SACRIFICING WHAT MATTERS.

If you had told me back in my first year teaching middle school ELA—trying to make a scripted curriculum feel like me, surrounded by students who barely read or wrote—that I’d one day feel confident, prepared, and leave school at contract time? I would’ve laughed out loud.

But now I do.
Thousands of teachers who’ve joined this free workshop do too.
And you absolutely can as well.

This isn’t about cute ideas or one-off lessons.
This is about building a sustainable ELA structure—one that:

  • Hits 100% of the standards
  • Boosts real student engagement
  • Frees up time for reading, feedback, and actual teaching

And let’s be honest: it doesn’t just affect your classroom.

When you finally have systems that work, it changes everything.

  • You show up more confident at work.
  • Your students grow more—without constant reteaching.
  • You don’t dread Sunday nights.
  • You feel like yourself in the classroom again
  • And best of all? You get your nights and weekends back.

This free workshop gives you the exact 3-step method I used to get there—plus the resources, templates, and support you need to make it happen fast.

This free workshop will show you how to create a powerful ELA class period that fits all the pieces together, share my 3-step method for simplifying your year while improving student outcomes, and unlock a framework you can start using immediately—without giving up the things that matter, like independent reading, writing conferences, and mentor sentence instruction.

I'm in. Let's do this.

Meet Martina.

Hey! I’m Martina Cahill—also known as The Hungry Teacher—and I help middle school ELA teachers stop surviving their class periods and start running them with confidence.

After teaching 5th grade for years, I moved to middle school and was suddenly responsible for 150 students, a scripted curriculum, and zero systems that actually worked. I was overwhelmed, grading constantly, and spending every Sunday reinventing the wheel. Sound familiar?

So I stopped chasing quick fixes and built what I wish I'd had from the start:

  • a flexible unit planning systems and daily structures that actually fit all the standards
  • grading + feedback approaches that happens during class time—so you can stop taking stacks of work home
  • frameworks that made space for things I knew mattered—like independent reading, mentor sentences, and writing conferences.

Today, I support thousands of 6th–8th grade ELA teachers through resources, curriculum, and workshops that are as practical as they are powerful. And I still create everything through the lens of what works in a real classroom with real students and a real life outside of teaching.

Over 10,000 teachers have used my frameworks to finally feel confident walking into class—and to leave at contract time.

If you're ready to stop scrambling and start teaching with a plan that actually fits your values and your schedule…

I’ll show you how inside this free workshop.

Save your seat!

DON'T CLICK OUT.

This one workshop could change your entire school year.

This could be the moment you stop feeling like you’re barely keeping up—and start teaching like the expert you already are.

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Attend Live to Get the Tools That Make Implementation Possible

This isn’t just a training—it’s the exact system and support you need to build a more efficient, aligned, and engaging ELA class period.

And when you come live, you’ll get the plug-and-play resources that make implementation realistic, without hours of extra planning.

Here’s what you’ll walk away with:

  • A one-hour PD certificate you can use for your license renewal or professional development hours
  • My editable pacing and planning templates to map out your year and structure each unit with intention
  • Standards checklists for every middle school ELA strand so you know what you're covering—and what you're not
  • My done-for-you sub plan bundle with three ready-to-use close reading passages to make emergency days stress-free
  • A surprise mini-unit for each major ELA subject strand (reading, writing, grammar, and more) to help you hit the ground running

These are the exact tools I use in my own planning.

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