language arts (middle school)

Explains an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol designed to help students improve their writing skills, focusing on constructing well thought out test responses, with lesson plans, narratives and question prompts, tips for monitoring student progress, an extensive bibliography, and a CD-ROM with support material.

Provides twenty research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet the common core standards.

Describes strategies for using documentary films to teach students how to read and interpret nonfiction texts, and includes activities, reproducible handouts, and resources.

Presents an action-oriented approach for teaching English language learners, focusing on the middle school grades, with a high-challenge, high-support curriculum that encourages critical thinking, subject knowledge, and literacy proficiency; includes dozens of activities, plans, reflection questions, and suggestions for further reading.

A collection of classroom-tested techniques to stimulate literature conversations and increase student involvement, and contains sample activities, prompts, and reproducible surveys to help plan discussions.

Offers teachers and curriculum coordinators an overview of the literacy development of students in kindergarten through eighth grade, explaining who students can do as readers, writers, and language users at specific stages.

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.

A collection of 250 questions and answers about language arts that covers punctuation, grammar, language and spelling, capitalization, writing and literary terms, poetry, and composition.

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