Product Description: One of the most important things students can learn in school is how to learn. Studying, Test Taking, and Getting Good Grades falls solidly within the "how to learn" category. Taken from a broad variety of disciplines, it goes beyond basic study skills to address motivation, personal responsibility, diet, exercise, the brain, and numerous other topics...read more

A wide range of cultural competence is addressed in this creative resource for raising diversity awareness in teenagers. With a comprehensive approach that incorporates a variety of learning styles and skill levels, the three sections include personal-awareness activities for those with little exposure to diversity issues, a section for building cultural awareness around a particular topic, and practice activities for trying out new relationship-building methods. Each activity invites participants to examine their attitudes and behaviors about diversity and make the lesson tangible with group discussion. More than 20 reproducible activity sheets and scripts provide group leaders with hands-on tools and ready-to-use lesson plans, and a section on facilitation techniques helps program leaders guide sensitive discussions.

Product Description: This?volume of Ready-to-Use Reading Proficiency Lessons & Activities gives classroom teachers and reading specialists a dynamic and progressive way to meet curriculum standards and competencies at the eighth-grade level. It provides stimulating and effective ways to help students master basic reading and language content, and prepare to demonstrate their knowledge at the appropriate level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides lessons and activities to reinforce basic reading skills for students in grades six to twelve. (view table of contents)

Describes alternative learning oportunities for high school students, both at home and abroad, and discusses ways to locate them, preparation required, and cost.

Product Description: A practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready-to-use activity sheets to help teach and reinforce writing skills in middle/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6-12. Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self-contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher's guide to effective use of the activities and full answer keys...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready-to-use activity sheets to help teach and reinforce writing skills in middle/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6-12. Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self-contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher's guide to effective use of the activities and full answer keys. The activities can be used in any order in any developmental or corrective writing program to meet the specific needs of individual students, small groups, or an entire class.

Product Description: This is a book about making learning happen. Not the kind of learning that is measured by a standardized or multiple-choice test. Nor the kind of learning that occurs on Monday, but is forgotten by Friday. This is a book about conscious learning, the kind of learning that enables students to assess the current level and quality of their language performance and then work to improve that performance deliberately, enthusiastically, and with commitment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready-to-use activity sheets to help teach and reinforce writing skills in middle/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6-12. Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self-contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher's guide to effective use of the activities and full answer keys...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Defines cooperative learning, and suggests activity plans for art, English, foreign languages, mathematics, music, psychology, science, and social studies

Product Description: For secondary reading specialists and English teachers, this practical resource provides over 200 ready-to-reproduce lessons and exercises to teach and reinforce basic reading skills with students of all abilities. Each lesson includes an Instructor's Page with background information and teaching suggestions followed by one or more Student Skill sheets designed for sequential development of skills that build to higher levels of reading proficiency within each section...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Formerly a SkyLight publication. Project learning is an exciting, challenging, and memorable way of engaging students in active, authentic learning experiences. It immerses students in the process of creating, testing, polishing, and producing a project such as a biography or invention...read more