Sentences with phrase «school readers»

We subscribe to a number of high quality databases, as well as having a print and eBook collection targeted at middle school readers.

There's a wealth of material to draw from — and it's both high quality and accessible to a broad range of high school readers.

Still, I would consider it a wonderful choice for high school students, and possibly for mature - minded middle school readers.

Now she turns that same broad appreciation for the importance of science in society to help inform middle - school and high - school readers about the ways in which research can explain their world and ultimately improve it.

1,000 Years Ago on Planet Earth is a terrific tool for helping elementary and middle school readers put the new millennium in perspective.

A veteran English teacher on the importance of choice, plus three tactics to keep high school readers engaged.

For example, consider the case of Christian parents protesting «secular humanism» in school readers.

To see the learning potential of a lit trip, Burg suggests taking a look at the trip he recently created to help high school readers explore a contemporary novel, The Kite Runner.

We urge Rethinking Schools readers to send us stories of your own actions of defiance and refusal to reduce students and teachers to test scores.

The writing is pretty basic, but I have a feeling that this will be a hit with middle school readers looking for a World War II book out of the usual Holocaust / fighting the Germans tradition.

I know I'm going to look insufferably and nerdily overachieving here, but I'm using my turn for this Poetry Friday to highlight three poetry books across the board, so to speak — picture book, middle - grade, and YA (actually, the Grandits book is more squarely aimed at teens, but it'd work just dandy for a middle - school reader as well).

It could be a high school civics book, a grammar school reader, a manual for gun - toting survivalists or an apology for liberals.

Geared toward elementary school readers, Hickory Doc's Tales helps youth transition to chapter books, and it encourages a host of creative writing opportunities and exercises.

So since I'm a papercrafter at heart, that's exactly what I created, a tutorial on how to make Shamrock Pallet Art out of Scrapbooking paper and pallet wood to inspire the Silhouette School readers how easily it can be done.

Check out these 10 Books about Football for Middle School Readers.

Another study, which you can read in its entirety here, also tested the effects of Text To Speech on struggling high school readers.

Old - school reader?

«Tailoring the Fit: Reading Instruction and Middle School Readers.»

I need to emphasize that Otto listens to a lot of his brothers» books, he listens to Otis read his school readers every night and most nights he listens to me read a bedtime book to Otis.

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With an increased interest in early literacy, have middle school readers been left behind?

Literacy needs of middle school readers are being targeted as achievement gaps and the pressure to address these gaps in struggling readers has increased since the implementation of a state - wide teacher evaluation rubric.

By one estimate, a middle - school child who is an avid reader might read nearly 10 million words in a year, compared with 100,000 for the least motivated middle - school reader.

Carol LaRow designed a Google lit trip for middle school readers that focuses on the historical novel My Brother Sam Is Dead.

Motivation for Reading Among Struggling Middle School Readers: A Mixed Methods Study.

Software that teaches users to sing in tune and in rhythm while providing real - time pitch tracking was used in a study of struggling middle school readers.

Conferenced via iTalk with a student teacher about possible lesson ideas for teaching reluctant middle school readers.

Taking digital publishing into account, the access to technology at the preschool stage is not the same as the high school reader's access, so different digital focuses must be established in order to reach as many young readers as possible.

DC Zoom will be geared to middle school readers and DC Ink will focus on stories for young adults.

Sometimes it read like a fable, sometimes like a middle school reader (Patricia T).

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick (2014) Honestly, any of Sonnenblick's YA novels (Notes from the Midnight Driver and Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip) are appropriate for a middle school reader.

But in 2008, the Caldecott medal went to The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, a book most likely to be enjoyed by late elementary school and early middle - school readers.

When venturing into YA books that will resonate with middle school readers, a great place to start is the overlap between Newbery winners and Honor books (recognizing books for readers up to age 14) and Printz winners and Honor books (recognizing books for readers ages 12 through 18).

Her novel, The Possibilities of Sainthood (FSG, 2008), received five starred reviews and many accolades, including: an Indie Next Kids» List Great Read, Society of School Librarians International Book Award Honor Book, VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers, and the Texas Lone Star Reading List.

Books for high - school readers were also considered, and audiobooks were added in 1999.

Titles range from Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue for high school readers to Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji for K — 2 students, Glimer says the titles are bundled on Nook Color devices as the graphics and colors in the pictures books do not «translate as well onto the non-colored devices.»

Each book is appropriate for high school readers.

Some therapy dogs spend their time being a buddy to reluctant grade - school readers.

, in which lessons on the ravaging of ecosystems also offer plenty of opportunities to practice silent e, to the ultra-sophisticated How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, by foremost environmental author Lynne Cherry, in which middle school readers are cast as coprincipal investigators.

You, dear old - school reader, you remember.