study and teaching (middle school)

Shows teachers how to bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, and provides mentor texts, student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies designed to elevate student writing.

Presents a collection of Collaborative Integrated Skills lessons, grouped by broad curricular area and theme, including basic skill lessons, social studies, language arts, science, math, and assessment; and includes assessment check sheets and rubrics.

Presents annotated listings of picture books on a wide variety of topics and discusses how they can be used to introduce middle school students to novels on related subject matters. Includes discussion questions.

Contains eighty lessons for teaching students the craft of nonfiction writing, each with a discussion of the lesson, directions on how to teach it, and resource material; grouped by grade level, including kindergarten through second, third and fourth, and fifth through eighth.

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, and an extensive bibliography.

Identifies the six stages of the information literacy process, showing the progression of skills for each stage; applies the skills to individual grades from seven through twelve; and includes teaching tools.

Provides instructions for thirteen games designed to improve the vocabulary skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, and includes sample questions, suggestions, and examples.