Books
of Interest to Middle Grades Educators
From
Stenhouse Publishers
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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.
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.
Janet Allen's Inside Words will help middle-level teachers make content vocabulary accessible and meaningful to their students. Classroom examples and graphic organizers support over 20 instructional strategies.
Exemplars: Your Best Resource to Improve Student Writing gives you more than 50 exemplar-based mini-lessons for the middle grades, organized around the six key writing traits. This practical book will help you engage student writers and model effective skills. Click here for details!
The Craft of Grammar takes you and your staff to Jeff Anderson's diverse 6th-grade classroom where he engages student writers while connecting craft with grammar and mechanics. The 60-minute DVD includes a Viewing Guide with 8 PD workshops and handouts. Pair with Jeff's book Mechanically Inclined for a complete PD program.
Do essays have a bad reputation in your classroom? Essay Writing is a practical guide for middle-level teachers that will help you engage students purposefully. This book covers all of the basics and is filled with lessons, tips, reproducible forms & templates for assignments, and assessment tools.
Announcing the Second Edition of Strategies That Work! Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis have guided hundreds of thousands of teachers in helping children develop strategies for reading comprehension. The completely revised and expanded edition of Strategies That Work features 20 new comprehension lessons, new chapters on content literacy, and enhanced sections on assessment.
Travel with your students through time and imaginatively live through U.S. history with Eyewitness to the Past. Teaching strategies and activities focus on primary sources-letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches, and travelogues-and foster writing, critical thinking, and debating skills.
55 Teaching Dilemmas gives teachers specific, practical ideas for conquering a variety of common challenges: managing classroom time, supporting struggling students, preventing burnout, communicating with parents, motivating students, leading effectively inside and outside the classroom, and much more
Create an experiential, challenging, and safe classroom that stimulates both minds and bodies with the new book Leap into Literacy. Get an amazing variety of teaching ideas and activities: making metaphors, choral reading, improving group dynamics, visual literacy, role playing, and more.
Do essays have a bad reputation in your classroom? Essay Writing is a practical guide for middle-level teachers that will help you engage students purposefully. This book covers all of the basics and is filled with lessons, tips, reproducible forms & templates for assignments, and assessment tools.
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.
Right the writing wrongs in your classroom! In his new book Teaching Adolescent Writers Kelly Gallagher shares instructional strategies that focus on six key needs: ample practice, teacher modeling, reading great writers, topic choice, authentic purposes, and meaningful feedback.
How can we create writing classrooms that are friendlier to boys? In his new book Boy Writers Ralph Fletcher explores how to give boys more choices and how to engage them in classroom discussions. He tackles difficult issues such as gender differences, violence and humor, edgy language, and handwriting.
In his new book Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore... David Booth argues that teachers must redefine reading as an activity that embraces the needs and interests of students, and outlines 12 simple steps to encourage reading in all kinds of genres and formats.
Get strategies for meeting the needs of all of your students in Student Diversity. This practical book offers classroom and resource teachers in grades 4-12 new tools throughout the curriculum that make learning accessible for students with special needs, ELL students, and others with learning challenges.
More uncommon sense for teaching ELLs! Complementing their previous book, Making Sense, Juli Kendall and Outey Khuon offer practical ways to help ELL students improve their writing in Writing Sense—featuring 68 small-group lessons for both younger and older ELLs at each stage of language proficiency
Your students are text-messaging, blogging, and expertly integrating words, images, and music to create original texts. The new book, Bringing the Outside In, will show you how to bring these newer visual literacies into your classroom and re-connect students who don't see themselves as readers and writers.
Are your students stuck in "answer" gear? The new book Q Tasks will help you develop a questioning culture and empower students to think critically, with 89 step-by-step tasks on curiosity, question types, building good questions, research quests, opinions, interviews, surveys, writing, study skills, and more.
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.
What do tweens need to become lifelong readers? In her new book, Naked Reading, Teri Lesesne shows you how to get tweens interested in books and keep them reading during this crucial period. Includes a list of more than 100 great books for tweens.
The new book Exploring Writing in the Content Areas shows content-area teachers how to guide students through each stage of the writing process; incorporate a variety of purposes such as informational, persuasive, and comparative; and provide constructive feedback. Includes 39 reproducible forms & checklists.
In her new book, Becoming a Literacy Leader, Jennifer Allen explores her role as literacy specialist, staff developer, and study group facilitator, and provides practical suggestions for collaborative change, coaching, intervention, fluency, classroom design, assessment, and more.
Here are two books that will help school leaders start the New Year right. The Principal Difference draws on the latest research and personal case studies to give practical suggestions for improving leadership. The Literacy Principal is a concise guidebook on literacy-based school change.
In his new book, Mechanically Inclined, middle school English teacher Jeff Anderson provides an alternative to the negative, rule-plagued emphasis of much grammar instruction by connecting theory on using grammar in context with practical instructional strategies and lessons.
