language arts (middle school)

Examines how teachers can improving literacy in middle school and high school students; discussing student motivation, engagement, and achievement; integrating literacy across the curriculum; interventions for struggling readers and writers; and support from the school, parents, community, and district; and describing a school wide action plan.

Contains 350 writing prompts for use in fourth through eighth grade classrooms; grouped in sixteen categories, with tips for the teacher.

Contains practical guidelines for analyzing the literacy climate within the middle school through high school classroom and provides information on curriculum, instruction, learning tools, and assessments.

Contains reproducibles and overheads to be used with the lessons presented in Nancie Atwell's "Lessons that Change Writers," including examples, principles, approaches, rules, readings, and posters.

Offers a comprehensive overview of key topics in learning instruction from grades five through twelve, with recommendations for the most effective practices for motivating students, using multiple texts and digital media, integrating literacy instruction with various content areas, and teaching ESL students and struggling learners.

A practical guide to using films as texts in English classes, which discusses reading strategies and textual analysis; explains terminology and cinematic effects using over thirty films as examples; presents unit suggestions for eleven films; and provides a glossary, blank activity charts, and an annotated resource list.

Describes strategies for using informational texts in the classroom to promote nonfiction reading and writing, and includes teaching points, exercises, a selection of forms, and vignettes from teachers across the country.

Presents summaries, lesson ideas, grade levels, ISBNs, and publisher information on books useful for teaching elementary and middle school students writing skills; arranges the texts by skill area, including voice, word choice, organization, and sentence fluency.

Presents an introduction to creative writing for kids, in simple text with illustrations, providing activities and projects to get kids interestinf in writing stories, poems, and more.