Grades 6-8

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Getting the best out of students is made easier by using teaming to nurture their educational, emotional, social, and developmental needs, and this guide is a blueprint for team building in any school setting. True stories and practical strategies make this an effective and entertaining tool for assembling and managing a team within a professional learning community. It includes a dynamic “3-5-3 Action Plan” for improving student behavior, as well as tips for using teams to address Common Core...

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The SOAR program works in any school or classroom to help disadvantaged or at-risk students cross the achievement gap to school success. It goes far beyond the usual after-school academic tutoring concept by building relationships, community connections, leadership skills, social skills, and cultural experiences. This handbook gives a step by step plan to move toward the already-proven results: remarkable improvement in students’ grades, test scores, school attendance, behavior, and...

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This book takes students on a trip to an amusement park, and they learn and use vocabulary along the way! They will move through the park as they work with prefixes, suffixes, and root words; recognize and use synonyms and antonyms; identify and use multiple meaning words and figurative language; and distinguish between denotation and connotation.

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Warm up your classes with inspiring, humorous, and insightful quotes! A fascinating quote can ignite the mind, and this handy collection provides 55 such quotes. The quotes have been specifically chosen to wake up the brain and grab students with an important idea to carry through the day. Every quote is accompanied by short activities that engage students with the idea in the quote, and they are also great for warm-ups, advisory lessons, or character education classes.

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Using current research on learning styles and methods, this top-seller will help teachers choose and use thinking and reading strategies that enable students to comprehend content as well as read individual words. Learn how to model your own thinking processes as you read for content and process information after you read to help your students do the same.

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A teaching team is a group of teachers assigned to a common group of students for a designated period of time. This book examines 12 essential components of productive middle school teams. Each chapter demonstrates a high-impact team strategy and provides an activity for helping teams to implement the strategy.

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This book helps to wake up students’ brains with its entertaining, topic-oriented puzzles riddles, logic problems, and brain teasers. Sharpen critical thinking and problem solving skills while reinforcing information.

Item #: IP1399 -

This book helps to wake up students’ brains with its entertaining, topic-oriented puzzles riddles, logic problems, and brain teasers. Sharpen critical thinking and problem solving skills while reinforcing the basics of pre-algebra.

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Celebrate and sharpen basic language and grammar skills with this workbook for students in grades 6-8! Students will visit the beach to discover commas lost in the wild surf, meet subjects and verbs that are more disagreeable than crabs, and find clauses that are caught in lobster claws. The engaging adventure storylines are a creative and fun way to reinforce necessary grammar skills.

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This collection of motivating and fun activities is aligned with seventh grade Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. It’s perfect for reinforcing specific skills in students with varying skill levels. Engaging activities make learning more fun! Easy-to-read tables clearly define each standard and are paired with supporting content.

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Students will practice and grow their reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with this engaging workbook. They will practice identifying main ideas and supporting details, summarizing, predicting outcomes, recognizing an author’s point of view, and evaluating conclusions.

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Reinforce, practice, and grow students’ map skills with this action-packed and story-based workbook! Students will join the hunt for a bank robber, follow an art thief all over the cities of Europe, and crack a worldwide Internet spy network—all by applying and practicing their map skills.