Capricorn "Cap" Anderson has never watched television. He's never tasted a pizza. Never even heard of a wedgie. Since he was little, his only experience has been living on a farm commune and being home schooled by his hippie grandmother, Rain. But when Rain falls out of a tree while picking plums ...
Quizzes, stories, surveys, and activities for middle schoolers addressing such issues as physical and emotional changes, connecting with friends and family, setting goals, and handling peer pressure.
In an effort to gain insight into the troubled terrain of middle schoolers, Pearlstein traces the experiences of five Maryland students. She follows them through a full year of school and comes out with valuable insights about them and their friends, and what really goes on in their heads--which is a lot.
Told entirely through notes, grocery receipts, report cards, bottle caps, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of a young girls life, Newbery Honor winner Holm delivers the story of Ginnys seventh-grade year using all the things that "really" matter. Full color.
This resource combines theory and research with practical strategies and classroom applications so teachers and staff developers can help students become better readers. A dozen mini-lessons explain how to model the reading process and teach reading strategies to support struggling readers. There are also management tips to setting up a dynamic ...
After spending the night studying the Joyce Kilmer Middle School handbook, Jenny McAfee feels totally prepared to start sixth grade. But Jenny has another reason to feel confident. She'll have her best friend, Addie Wilson, right there by her side.
Contrary to traditional educational thought, true emotion, rather than pure reason, is the secret to creativity and intelligence. The truth is ultimately personal - that's why it's universal. By the time Bernie Shein's students arrive in his middle-school classroom, they are little more than a gaggle of defense mechanisms, needing to rediscover ...
Jenny has been receiving gifts, cards, and notes from a secret admirer. Who could the mystery boy be? Meanwhile, Rachel and Felicia stop speaking following a basketball game. Will the friends ever speak to one another again?
The wedding between Jamie's aunt and Angeline's uncle is nearing, and they will be joined together until death - or a much-wished-for divorce. Now, three of Jamie's most dreaded nightmares are about to be combined into one unbearable event.
Written as a seventh grade school project, this book by five real-life middle-school girls offers straight-from-the-heart advice on everything from being popular (or not) to handling more responsibility at home or school. Includes a Foreword from the Editor-in-Chief of "Girls' Life" magazine. Full color.
This book will be of special value to secondary school students growing up in families where English is not the first language. Like other titles in Barron's "Painless" series, the approach to learning is informal and user-friendly. The authors take students step-by-step through all parts of speech-nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, prepositions, ...
From cliques to class schedules, first jobs to foreign language, this accessible guide is a "must have" compendium of information for kids about to take the middle school plunge. Now revised, this new edition is packed with updated information, interactive quizzes, and more.
In what is more than the average book of teacher anecdotes, Judy Logan shares powerful teaching and learning experiences. She shares thoughtfully prepared, and truly original, lessons as well as classroom experiences in which listening and sharing are paramount. Conflict resolution, peer counseling, and team teaching are among the methods she uses.
Hikaru Shindo finds an old bloodstained Go board in his grandfather's attic. In one fateful moment, the ghost of an ancient Go master becomes a part of Hikaru's consciousness and together, they make an unstoppable Go-playing team.
Haley is smart, funny, nice, and determined to be super-popular in her new middle-school. . . if she can control that problematic little secret power of hers. Enter another new seventh-grader, Alexa. She's smart-alecky, definitely not nice, and she's got the power, too. Just like Haley, Alexa is psychokinetic. She can move things with her mind and ...
The only survival guide a middle school kid will ever need. It can be the best of times. It can be the worst of times, too. Middle school happens at that tumultuous time in life when one's not a teenager and not a little kid. Middle school means being a middle-aged kid. Expectations--from teachers, parents, friends, siblings--can all change ...
Following on the heels of the bestselling "Fires in the Bathroom," which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents, Cushman now turns her attention to the crucial and challenging middle grades, joining forces with adolescent psychologist Rogers.
To illustrate the whole spectrum of married prayer, the authors have collected true-life stories from couples, including those who have prayed together since their wedding night and those who hardly ever pray together. Quotes from couples give encouragement and practical advice for readers.
What do adolescents care about? Chatting on-line with friends, movies, their favorite bands . . . but many are also avid readers. What motivates some of these "typical teens" to become lifelong readers and others to slide by with the minimum amount of assigned reading? Teri Lesesne says the key is finding the books that get them hooked in the ...
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