This ready-to-use resource gives teachers 15 kid-pleasing stories that are perfect for building essential reading skills such as predicting, making inferences, summarizing, and more. For each reproducible story, teachers will find a companion teacher page with vocabulary-building tips, reading strategy suggestions, and thought-provoking writing and discussion prompts. For use with Grades 4-8.

Comprehension Cliffhanger Stories: 15 Action-Packed Stories That Invite Students to Infer, Visualize, and Summarize to Predict the Ending of Each Story

Conklin, Tom

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Scholastic Teaching Resources: Theory and Practice

This ready-to-use resource contains 15 exciting-and true-stories for kids to read and then write or discuss their predictions about the story's ending. The stories are perfect for building essential reading skills such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, summarizing, and more. Each reproducible nonfiction story comes with a companion teacher page, which includes suggested discussion topics to activate students' prior knowledge, a vocabulary list, and more. Plus, the stories span the curriculum, providing students with valuable reading in the content areas. For use with Grades 4-8.

Nonfiction Comprehension Cliffhangers: 15 High-Interest True Stories That Invite Students to Infer, Visualize, and Summarize to Predict the Ending of Each Story

Scholastic Teaching Resources

In an era of Common Core State Standards and accountability, students need to use the time they spend in school focused on academics and ready to learn. However, middle school has always presented special challenges. This is a time when students can spend a lot of time grappling with physical changes, forging interpersonal relationships, managing increased responsibility, and more—all of which can distract them from the primary purpose of school. The researched-based lessons in this book will help teachers delve into key social and emotional learning topics, such as Self Esteem Emotions Cognition Peer Relationships Bullies Stress Overall, this book will give teachers not only an understanding of the basic issues and research underlying social and emotional learning but also practical tools for introducing the topic into the curriculum. For use with Grades 5 &amp; Up.

Social and Emotional Learning in Middle School: Essential Lessons for Student Success: Engaging Lessons, Strategies, and Tips That Help Students ... Navigate Middle School and Focus on Academics

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Schools & Teaching

8 Plays for the Classroom Based on Stories by Famous Writers8 plays and related activities based on classic mystery stories by writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others. The creative, cross-curricular extension activities help students fully explore the genre of mystery.

Mystery Plays (Grades 4-8)

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Comprehension Cliffhanger Stories: 15 Action-Packed Stories That Invite Students to Infer, Visualize, and Summarize to Predict the Ending of Each Story

Nonfiction Comprehension Cliffhangers: 15 High-Interest True Stories That Invite Students to Infer, Visualize, and Summarize to Predict the Ending of Each Story

Social and Emotional Learning in Middle School: Essential Lessons for Student Success: Engaging Lessons, Strategies, and Tips That Help Students ... Navigate Middle School and Focus on Academics

Mystery Plays (Grades 4-8)