study and teaching (secondary)

"This book is a "best of" collection of tips and exercises to help nurture young writers and strengthen core skills. Since each activity has been tried and tested in thousands of classrooms, you'll find successful methods for turning even the most reluctant students into effective, powerful writers"--.

Provides teachers with introductory material, discussion questions, writing activities, and resource materials for thirty plays and novels suitable for grades 6-12.

A comprehensive guide that helps middle grade students better understand mathematical content through talking and writing, providing CD-ROM with lesson activities to stimulate learning.

Offers advice and examples designed to help middle school math teachers conform to the NCTM's Process Standards when instructing students in grades six through eight on how to explore their reasoning and support their mathematical thinking.

Provides ways to bring media literacy into the K-12 classroom through any school subject matter, and teaches students skills that enable them to become knowledgeable media consumers and producers.

"Offers a step-by-step guide for implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels and other texts"--Back cover.