middle school education

A parent's guide to helping children succeed in middle school, covering organization skills, good habits, homework strategies, public and private schools, learning disabilities, student-teacher conflicts, standardized testing, tracking, and extracurricular activities.

Contains classroom-tested lessons, suggested activities, reproducible pages, sample paragraphs, and graphic organizers aimed at improving the note-taking skills of students in fifth grade and up.

A guide to building a curriculum-based graphic novel collection for engaging and informing middle and high school students.

A guide to creating and using text sets in the elementary and middle school classroom, covering choosing topics, identifying standards, assessing learning, and other topics. Includes a CD-ROM with reproducible materials and activity pages.

Presents an introduction to differentiated instruction, a systematic approach to planning curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of academically diverse learners, and features annotated lesson plans for differentiated units in a variety of curriculum areas, geared toward students in the middle grades.

Examines several aspects of social and emotional learning in middle and late childhood, as well as ways of utilizing and developing these intelligences in schools.

Presents a practical guide that allows students to create scripts based on any topic or work of literature; and emphasizes spoken words and gestures, not staged action.