study and teaching (middle school)

Explains how to make read-aloud time an effective unscripted teaching tool, presenting real examples from the classroom, strategies for fiction and nonfiction, and advice on book choice and building classroom community, along with a list of favorite read-aloud books chosen by sixty-seven third- through sixth-grade teachers.

Presents profiles of twelve issues in U.S. history spanning 1934-2000, each comprising an overview, analysis of the pro and con arguments given on the issue at the time, and discussion of the issue's outcome, and includes sidebars, fact boxes, biographies, and document excerpts.

Actress Danica McKellar relates algebra concepts in a fun, sassy style, covering square roots, polynomials, quadratic equations, word problems, and more.

A guide for educators to improve children's informational writing habits that focuses on exposing students in kindergarten through eighth grade to nonfiction children's books as examples from which to learn and be inspired. Includes an annotated list of children's literature.

Presents twenty poems and activities designed to help middle school students develop a love for poetry and learn how to understand what they are reading.

Contains thirty-eight essays, including persuasive, informative, literary, personal and illustrated essays, written by popular authors that were given a writing prompt on a variety of subjects, such as, the merits of having a tail, time machines, space colonization, superpowers, and more.

Presents a comprehensive handbook for teaching students in grades six through eight the knowledge, skills, and values of active environmental citizenship.

Contains a practical laboratory safety manual that discusses safety concepts in the context of real classrooms and to help make students partners-in-safety within an inquiry-based science curriculum.

Actress and math theorem coauthor Danica McKellar teaches math concepts introduced in middle school, the period when many young girls lose interest in math, using entertaining examples.