Middle School

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of the text.

Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally

John A. Van de Walle has written a book that helps readers make sense of mathematics and become confident in their ability to teach mathematics to children K to 8. Elementatry and Middle School Mathematics consists of 16 chapters reflecting the view that all mathematics can be taught through a problem-solving approach that motivates children and builds their confidence as they learn. This book thoroughly discusses the new standards and clearly develops four key aspects of teaching mathematics: the nature of mathematics as a science of pattern and order; an understanding of how children learn mathematics; a problem solving view of teaching mathematics; and specific methods for integrating assessment with instruction. Simple yet effective classroom activities are woven throughout the chapters as well as suggestions for technology and literature. For teachers, future teachers, and educators. nt Code -- F

The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers

Long an advocate of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the author draws on evidence gathered in twenty years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and provides the practical support and structures necessary for achieving them. 144 pages.

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12

The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8: Behaviors and Understandings to Notice, Teach, and Support

 

• interactive read-aloud and literature discussion
• shared and performance reading
• writing about reading
• writing
• oral, visual, and technological communication
• phonics, spelling, and word study
• guided reading.

• planning instruction for individuals, small groups, or a whole class
• assessing children's literacy development
• evaluating student progress and reporting grades
• discussing expectations with parents
• identifying specific needs for targeted intervention.

Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading

Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas. Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman, authors of a dozen influential books on literacy and cofounders of Best Practice High School, bring their trademark styleteacher friendly and kid wiseto the reality of today's middle and high schools.

Their book features:

• 23 practical classroom activities that help students understand and remember what they read, in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and more
• a tough analysis of today's textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively
• a new "balanced diet" of reading, including 150 real books of interest to teenage readers
• instructions for growing a rich classroom library in your subject area
• plans for setting up student book clubs and reading groups in any discipline
• group-building techniques that create a productive community of readers
• a do-it-yourself exploration of the ways smart readers think
• models for developing ambitious thematic units within your classroom or with colleagues
• special help and materials for students who struggle
• scientific proof that the book's recommended activities do improve reading and learning.

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8

Writing Whizardry: 60 Mini-Lessons to Teach Elaboration and Writer's Craft

Every elementary teacher wants her students to develop organized, clear expository and narrative pieces with vivid verbs, sparkling specificity, and a mastery of basic writer's techniques. Writing Whizardry helps you take your students there with 60 mini-lessons that teach elaboration and the elements of the writing craft--the "tricks"of the writer's trade.

Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12

8th Grade Reading Comprehension Success

This guide develops critical reading skills with material that is challenging, age-appropriate, and high-interest.