Grades 6-8

180 Days of Math for Sixth Grade

Help sixth grade students improve their math skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on 12 daily math problems, student will practice algebraic thinking, number and operations, measurement and data, and geometry.

Backwards Planning: Building Enduring Understanding through Instructional Design ebook

With practical advice and models, this resource helps you increase student achievement through a systematic approach to lesson design. Learn how to identify enduring understandings, set goals, establish benchmarks, and monitor progress.

Understanding Learning Styles: Making a Difference for Diverse Learners ebook

This resource helps teachers determine the learning style of each student and the appropriate delivery methods to target and address the needs of as many of the intelligences as possible.

Strategies for Powerful Comprehension Instruction: It Takes More Than Mentioning ebook

Understanding text is key to students' learning success! This notebook provides explicit instructions for teaching six fundamental comprehension strategies; predicting, making connections, visualizing, questioning, inferring, and summarizing.

You Can't Just Say It Louder! Differentiated Strat. for Comprehending Nonfiction

This dynamic book provides the foundation you need to confidently and successfully teach comprehension to a diverse population of students.

Applying Differentiation Strategies: Teacher's Handbook for Secondary

Give all learners in secondary grades the opportunity to succeed in the classroom! This resource will teach you how to differentiate your lessons through content, process, and product in order to effectively accommodate all learning levels.

Strategies for Building Fluency ebook

This easy-to-use guide features practical, research-based strategies and supported leveled readings. The strategies are organized by grouping situations including whole group, small group, partner, independent, and performance.

Strategies for Teaching Mathematics ebook

Enhance mathematics instruction and build students' understanding of mathematical concepts with this exceptional resource notebook. Choose from a wide range of easy-to-implement strategies that enhance mathematical content.

Document-Based Assessment Activities ebook

Take students beyond textbook history to explore various people and events from ancient Egypt through the 20th Century using primary sources.

A Baker's Dozen of Lessons Learned from the Teaching Trenches ebook

Maximize your effectiveness in the classroom with this practical tried-and true" resource. This enjoyable book provides valuable insights and strategies to use in the classroom tomorrow!"

Vocabulary Instruction for Academic Success ebook

Based on current research, this user-friendly resource provides vocabulary development strategies that are grouped together according to purpose.

Comprehension That Works: Taking Students Beyond Ordinary Understanding to Deep Comprehension ebook

Energize your reading instruction through innovative, engaging reading strategies that will empower you to improve your student's comprehension. These classroom-tested strategies integrate current research with real-life observation of students in action.

Greek and Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary ebook

Enhance instruction with an in-depth understanding of how to incorporate word roots into vocabulary lessons in all content areas.

The New Teacher's Guide to Success ebook

Be well prepared to achieve success in your first years of teaching! Presented in an easy-to-use format, you'll find answers to questions about classroom management, homework, communicating with parents, and more.

Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies ebook

This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text and features four reading passages for each grade level (1-8) that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text.

Esperanza renace: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Help Spanish-speaking students boost their reading comprehension skills! This book provides engaging lesson plans and activities to guide teachers in the instruction of Esperanza renace, the Spanish language version of the novel Esperanza Rising.

La isla de los delfines azules: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Help Spanish-speaking students build their reading comprehension skills! This teacher resource offers exciting lesson plans and activities for La isla de los delfines azules, the Spanish language version of the novel Island of the Blue Dolphins.

50 Strategies for Cooperative Learning

Unlock the power of collaboration in the classroom! This guide includes easy-to-implement strategies for fostering an academically engaging and emotionally supportive learning environment where every student can thrive.

Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being: Middle School

Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being: Middle School is a short and accessible parent guide that provides ideas and activities for developing social and emotional learning (SEL) in children in grades 6-8. Based on the concepts in the authors' popular teacher resource, Social-Emotional Learning Starts with Us, this book empowers parents to support children's self-awareness, emotional literacy, social connection, and general well-being. Self-reflection questions and exercises help parents connect the book's insights to their own lives. With clear explanations and plenty of visuals, the Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being collection makes it simple for adults and children to grow and thrive together.

Positive, Proactive, Prosocial Behavior Management: 8 Prevention Practices and 50 Interventions

Positive, Proactive, Prosocial Behavior Management gives K-5 teachers tools to build relationships with students, manage behaviors, and help students develop appropriate social-emotional skills. It offers a solution for teachers who struggle to meet educational goals because disruptive behaviors take up their time and attention.The first half of this book presents background information and research on prosocial skills and student behavior. It empowers readers to identify when behavior change is appropriate and when other considerations, such as culture and neurodiversity, may be relevant. The second half is a how-to manual that offers easy, effective ideas for reducing problematic student behaviors and building prosocial skills.

The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students-and You

The Empathetic Classroom goes beyond typical books on teacher well-being, focusing on holistic mindsets and strategies that support mental health in K-12 teachers and their students alike. Written by a teacher-turned-therapist, this approachable book uniquely offers a mental health perspective on classroom teaching. Maria Munro-Schuster shares tools for focusing on mental health in everyday practiceTeachers will benefit from sound advice on maintaining boundaries, confronting intrusive thoughts, responding to trauma, incorporating play into classrooms, and many other methods of remaining connected to themselves and their students. The conversational tone and relatable stories make this an easy, entertaining read.

Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning, Second Edition

Glow & Grow: A Brown Girl's Guide to Being Well and Finding Joy

Equitable Classroom Practices for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners

Dr. Almitra Berry, an expert on serving culturally and linguistically diverse learners, looks at teaching through the lens of equity, providing concrete and actionable steps for schools and educators. The author shows educators how to improve classroom culture, instruction, assessment, and grading. These practices will help ensure that learners of all ages, from all backgrounds receive high-quality education. Features of the book include educator self-assessments, reflection questions, illustrative examples, and activities for evaluating teaching practices.