language arts (middle school)

Presents a comprehensive manual for middle and high school level educators that provides strategies for different stages of literacy instruction and contains over one hundred lesson ideas for various degrees of learning.

Presents guidance and tools for teaching fifth through ninth graders how to write responsively on fiction and nonfiction, providing lessons, activities, and assessments.

Provides step-by-step procedures for specific performance tasks that may be used by teachers of English, reading, and English as a second language, and includes background on what performances tasks and rubrics are, as well as discussion of portfolios and the theory of multiple intelligences.

Use technology to bring history to life for students in grades 6-8 with Using Primary Sources in the Social Studies and Language Arts Classroom. The lessons in this 64-page book use online technology to access and examine historical primary documents. Each topic features national standards correlations, activities that promote inquiry-based learning, a list of bookshelf resources, and suggestions for related Web sites. The book supports NCSS and NCTE standards.

"Simplifies junior high English in engaging and conversational language and offers examples and activities to show readers how the topics tie in to real life"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a selection of booktalks, or short book promotions, that may be used to get students in grades six through eight interested in reading; grouped by topic, with suggested booklists and sample activities.