 | In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning by Nancie Atwell
Buy new: $39.12 / Used from: $29.97 The classic book for middle school English teachers. A great resource about writing and reading workshops. I especially like the forms for writing conferences.
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 | Nonfiction Writing: From the Inside Out by Laura Robb
Buy new: $24.08 / Used from: $14.00 A great resource to improve your students' formal writing. Want to get away from essays that start with "This essay will be about..." and end with "That is why..."? This is your book! It also provides some great lists of high-interest nonfiction texts for middle school children.
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 | Teaching Reading in Middle School (Grades 5 & Up) by Laura Robb
Buy new: $21.11 / Used from: $3.95 Ever wondered if you're teaching the students reading skills or just having them read books? You have to get this book! Robb gives great practical research and lesson plans for teaching the reading strategies kids need to learn in middle school.
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 | Teaching Powerful Writing: 25 Short Read-Aloud Stories and Lessons That Motivate Students to Use Literary Elements in Their Writing by Bob Sizoo
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $6.00 This is a great book of short stories that you can use as read-alouds or models for encouraging students to use literary elements in their writing. The stories are short enough to read in 5-10 minutes, and the book is organized by literary device (so you don't have to search through your favorite short stories to find the device you're trying to teach).
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 | The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong
Buy used from: $8.82 This is a great book to read before your first day of teaching. Wong gives many practical steps for making your classroom run efficiently and successfully. This is a great book for first year teachers as well as for teachers looking to improve their classroom management practices.
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 | Giggles in the Middle: Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle for Middle School (Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle) (Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle) by Jane Bell Kiester
Buy new: $16.96 / Used from: $11.95 Kiester creates a silly story that you both read aloud to your students and give to them in portions to proofread. This is an amazing tool! Your students will learn and practice the mechanics of writing (everything from paragraphing to commonly misused homophones) and learn new vocabulary words in an engaging, efficient format.
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 | I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani
Buy new: $15.40 / Used from: $11.74 I am so glad that I read this book! It is short, to-the-point, and pratical! If you're teaching middle school English and feel like you need more information about teaching reading, this is your book. Not only are these strategies great for struggling readers, but there is also great information about how to make reading a more concrete process.
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 | When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12 by Kylene Beers
Buy new: $32.60 / Used from: $29.72 A great book about teaching reading to middle school kids! Beers's book is more comprehensive than Tovani's classic. Beers offers great advice about strategies adolescents need, accompanying this information with practical lesson ideas and real-life stories. Beers really speaks to all those of us who realize what a complex process reading is and need some guidance on how to help kids.
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 | A Fresh Approach To Teaching Punctuation by Janet Angelillo
Buy new: $12.52 / Used from: $6.72 This book's philosophy toward teaching punctuation is wonderful! Angelillo approaches the teaching of punctuation through inquiry-based learning and "mentor texts" (rather than rules & worksheets). Although many of her examples focus on the elementary classroom, this book is useful for the middle and upper grades as well.
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 | Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension: Role Plays, Text Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other Enrichment Techniques That Engage Students with Text by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $11.97 Want to add some action to your class? This is the book for you! Jeff Wilhelm presents strategies that help students jump into the world of reading and understand their reading intensely. The strategies that I've used from this book have been very successful. They provide engaging ways to frontload material, energize discussions during reading, or synthesize information after reading.
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 | Teaching Reading With Think Aloud Lessons by Laura Robb
Buy new: $21.27 / Used from: $23.86 This "big book" highlights reading strategies by explaining what they are and why they're important. Then, it provides both fiction and non-fiction passages that illustrate the strategy with Robb's thoughts to the side of the passage. So many books explain the reading strategies, but this one provides a useful resource for teaching mini-lessons.
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