Energize your students by showing them real-world applications of the issues and ideas they study. Promote critical thinking, analytical skills, and media literacy. Invigorate your teaching and reinforce your lessons by taking full advantage of the abundant content available from a variety of media sources. There is a wealth of ideas for incorporating and discussing purpose, audience, fact, opinion, and bias. Open-ended student activities will make this book invaluable as you build critical literacy in your middle school classroom.

Using Media in the Classroom, Middle School

Education & Teaching

Campbell, Janis

Collison, Cathy

Schools & Teaching

Instructional Fair

The Yak, the reading mascot for the nationally syndicated Yak's Corner kids' newspaper, calls the Yaklennium time to reflect on the past and look into the future. Kids will find out what's ahead for the environment, schools, space travel and more in the new millennium. We asked kids to share their hopes and dreams, and we made time for lots of millennium activities, from keeping a journal to planning party. Come along with the Yak -- the new millennium will be a blast.

Yaklennium

Children's Books

Chargot, Patricia

Collison, Catherine Wilde

Activities, Crafts & Games

Detroit Free Press, Incorporated

Kamala Harris (Women Who Won't Be Silenced The Stories of Strong Women)

Collison, Catherine

Biographies

Lucent Books

Kamala Harris is a rising star in the political world, but who was she before she became a popular U.S. Senator and one of the most outspoken women in Washington D.C.' Readers discover the answer as they learn the details of her journey from a childhood in California and Canada to her election as the second black woman and first person of Indian descent to serve as a U.S. Senator. The informative main text is supplemented by fact-filled sidebars and full-color photographs. Quotes from Harris are highlighted to motivate the next generation of political leaders to follow in her footsteps.

Kamala Harris (Women Who Won't Be Silenced: The Stories of Strong Women)

Reese Witherspoon (Women Who Won't Be Silenced: The Stories of Strong Women)

Reese Witherspoon is an Oscar-winning and Emmy-nominated actress and a successful producer, but she has become known for much more than just her work in movies and on television. She has become a leader of the Time's Up movement, fighting for equality for women in all careers and from all walks of life. As readers learn about Witherspoon's career accomplishments and activism, they discover a role model who channeled her own pain after being assaulted as young woman into a movement that is changing the world. Detailed sidebars, full-color photographs, and quotes from Witherspoon add to this empowering reading experience.

In a collection of interviews, popular authors, including J. K. Rowling, Brian Jacques, Avi, Lois Lowry, and R. L. Stine, share writing tips, reading lists, and personal stories about their work. Original.

Authors by Request: An Inside Look at Your Favorite Writers

Beyond Words Pub Co

Aspiring astronauts, star gazing astrophysicists, and even toddlers pointing at the moon will now have the right stuff for exploring our galaxy. With rhymes for younger children and their accompanying fact-filled expository test for older readers, syndicated "Yak's Corner" columnists Janis Campbell and Cathy Collison shuttle us through an out of this world alphabet as seen through the windshield of a space ship. Each page answers galactic questions like: What planet is 300 times heavier than Earth? Why is space the ultimate place to study? Which planet is closest to the sun and which one is the farthest? Who said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?

G is for Galaxy: An Out of This World Alphabet (Science Alphabet)

Animals

Sleeping Bear Press

You’ve never discovered Michigan quite like this! Explore Michigan page by page in this incredibly creative hide and seek book. HIDDEN MICHIGAN covers every part of the great state of Michigan and has hidden objects throughout it. This is without a doubt the most creative, artistic and fun children's book ever done on Michigan and that's why it was honored as Michigan's First Official State book. The only book to pass the Michigan Senate to achieve this honor!

Hidden Michigan

Lewis, Anne Margaret

History

Mackinac Island Press

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