Books
of Interest to Middle Grades Educators
From
Stenhouse Publishers
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Do you have students who, when faced with a problem, immediately cry for help, accept defeat, or simply panic? Desperately Seeking Solutions gives you a framework for teaching essential problem-solving skills that help kids succeed in school and in life. Includes a 10-lesson mini-unit plan.
New from Rick Wormeli! Metaphors & Analogies gives you the tools to create those aha! moments when students suddenly understand a difficult concept—across all content areas. It will change the way you design lessons and inspire you to dig deep for the right metaphors to reach all of your students.
12 Sides to Your Story is a 32-page flipchart that summarizes 12 key strategies for improving narrative writing. You'll find concise explanations, tips, exemplars, and specific steps students can use to identify strategies as they read—and use them in their own stories. Only $12
What Student Writing Teaches Us is a concise guide to using formative assessment effectively in the writing classroom. You'll get practical suggestions for standards-based planning, offering a variety of feedback, student self-assessment, grading, and record-keeping.
In her new book, Notebook Connections, Aimee Buckner shows you how students can use reader's notebook to generate and elaborate on responses to text—beyond simply retelling the story—with 14 teacher-guided lessons that help students choose notebook strategies, and a variety of flexible assessment tools.
The Picture Book Experience is a handy flipchart that helps students and teachers at all levels choose, share, read aloud, and respond to picture books. Features categorized lists of popular books, authors, and illustrators, and numerous activities to make the most of this important genre. Only $12.
Do you feel like you're constantly skimming the surface as you try to meet the demands of your history curriculum and state standards? Making History Mine gives you dozens of step-by-step projects and lessons that will help you challenge your students to dig deeper and make history relevant to their lives.
Develop your students as nonfiction writers with Nonfiction Mentor Texts. You'll get concrete strategies for explicit instruction on introductions and conclusions, building content, writing to persuade, voice, syntax, and more. Includes annotated lists of hundreds of recommended children's books.
"One of those few must-read books that appear every year in education" (Richard Allington). In his new book, Readicide, English teacher Kelly Gallagher takes a hard look at common instructional practices that discourage students from reading, and offers specific suggestions for what teachers can do to cultivate lifelong readers.
Visit Kelly Gallagher's classroom for an in-depth look at writing instruction that spurs students to internalize the habits and skills of good writers. Improving Adolescent Writers is a 3-part DVD series with over 120 minutes of classroom footage and commentary by Kelly. Includes a 16-page viewing guide. Click here to view 3 sample clips online!
Flourish as a mentor with this practical guide. The revised and expanded edition of Mentoring Beginning Teachers helps mentors understand roles, encourage reflection, provide support with specific teaching challenges, and deal with common mentoring tensions and dilemmas.
Nonfiction Reading Power shows you how to help students think while they read in all subject areas—connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring, and synthesizing. Includes book lists organized by strategy and subject area.
New from Janet Allen! More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy puts 25 new research-based strategies—from Expert Groups to Point-of-View Guides to Wordstorming—at your fingertips, with reproducible graphic organizers, models, and step-by-step instructions. 46 pp/spiral-bound flipchart; just $12.
The Poetry Experience is a handy 32-page flipchart that explores all aspects of poetry--from an overview of genres and techniques to top ten lists of favorite poems by grade range and genre. It will give you strategies for writing, reading, and responding to all forms of poetry. Only $10.
"A must-have for any beginning middle-level teacher" (VOYA). Day One and Beyond by veteran teacher Rick Wormeli gives you advice on what to do in the first day & week, discipline, grouping, teaming, parents, homework, record keeping, and more. Pair it with Rick's first book Meet Me in the Middle for a comprehensive tour of best practices!
Are you ready to move beyond the structural elements of teaming? Develop a coordinated effort that includes curriculum integration, inclusion, meeting standards, and bringing together students, teachers, parents, and administrators. Get TeamWork, the insider's guide to collaborative teaching.
Help underrepresented students overcome obstacles and prepare for college with Greater Expectations. English teacher Robin Turner gives you everything you need to build a successful college-prep program in language arts, tapping the strengths of students' families and cultures. 240 pp/$18.
In Responsive Literacy Coaching, Cheryl Dozier provides a strategic framework to help coaches create and sustain change in teaching practices while avoiding pitfalls. Vignettes and examples of coaching interactions are woven throughout. Foreword by Choice Words author Peter Johnston. Click here to browse the entire book online!
Children's nature experiences can lead to deeply rooted attitudes and a lasting commitment to environmental stewardship. In Childhood and Nature noted educator David Sobel identifies universal "play motifs"—such as adventure and creating small worlds—and shows you how to use them to design compelling educational experiences.
The Novel Experience is a handy 32-page flipchart that helps middle-level teachers and students organize a novel program, choose books that match interests & abilities, foster comprehension, process information, and share responses. Includes over 100 up-to-date book suggestions; only $11.
Do your students have trouble completing long reading assignments? Short texts can transform indifferent and reluctant readers and give them a way into literature. Less Is More gives you strategies for teaching short texts in a variety of genres without sacrificing required novels.
How can you design effective differentiated lessons? In his new book Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12 Rick Wormeli guides you step-by-step from the blank page to a fully-crafted lesson and demonstrates how to weave differentiation into all subject areas.
3-Minute Motivators is a collection of over 100 simple, fun activities that will help you use "a little magic" to take a quick break, engage students, and refocus them on the task at hand.
New from Rick Wormeli! Fair Isn't Always Equal explores key principles of assessing and grading in a differentiated classroom, and provides practical advice on specifics such as tiering assessments and creating good test questions. Browse the entire book online.
