Grounded in the best current knowledge, this book shows how to implement response to intervention (RTI) in middle and high school contexts. Detailed guidelines are presented for teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, and other aspects of literacy across the content areas, and for providing effective interventions for students who require…

This teacher-friendly guide is packed with motivating lessons designed to improve the content learning and literacy skills of English language learners (ELLs) in K-8. Offering research-supported strategies that teachers can implement immediately, the book explains how to use content-area texts to support ELLs' growth in five crucial areas:…

This proceedings volume of InCoTEPD 2018 covers many ideas for handling a wide variety of challenging issues in the field of education. The outstanding ideas dealing with these issues result in innovation of the system. There are many innovation strategies resulting from recent research that are discussed in this book. These strategies will become…

This textbook is an American history course intended for upper grammar grades and junior high school. It covers the time from European colonization to the post-World War I era.

This History of the United States has been prepared in order to meet the views of that large and increasing class of teachers who are aiming at definite results in this study. This manual is designed as a working book, and hence discards both the high-flown narrative style and the meaningless details of the majority of school histories. The text…

The purpose of this text is to teach learning and understanding of mathematics at grades seven through nine through the use of science experiments. Previous knowledge of science on the part of students or teachers is not necessary. The text is designed to be usable with any mathematics textbook in common use. The material can be covered in four…

The guide provides fundamental principles of lipreading instruction and 38 sequential formal lessons in lipreading for use at the junior high or older level. It stresses that lipreading training aims to develop the understanding of words, phrases, and sentences rather than the study of exact lip movements. The lipreading ability of the child is…

The purpose of this text is to teach learning and understanding of mathematics at grades seven through nine through the use of science experiments. Previous knowledge of science on the part of students or teachers is not necessary. The text is designed to be usable with any mathematics textbook in common use. The material can be covered in three…

This document provides supplementary chapters for junior high school students studying SMSG or SMSG-type mathematics. Chapters include: (1) Sets; (2) Special Figures in Project Geometry; (3) Repeating Decimals and Tests for Divisibility; (4) Open and Closed Paths; (5) Finite Differences; (6) Recent Information on Primes; and (7) Games. Each…

Designed as a basic workbook using the inquiry process or as a supplementary text in the classroom, this 129 page booklet is divided into five units: Moving in on the Earth From Space, The Earth's Great Bodies of Water, Composition of the Solid Earth, The Earth's Crust is Constantly Changing, and Studying the Earth's History. The exercises are…

An overview is presented of the "Skills for Ethical Action" (SEA) instructional materials relative to other instructional approaches in the field of moral/values/ethical education, and information about anticipated learner outcomes is offered. The program is intended for junior high school students. Several major existing theoretical…

This book describes what happens when cyber-savvy students enter classrooms wired to the Internet. It offers a preview of challenges teachers will face as they become connected to the Internet. Information comes from 6 months spent observing an 8th- grade class at Cityview School, a 4-8 school that was wired to the Internet. Participants were 34…

This textbook aims to (1) train the pupil in that part of arithmetic used in everyday business which he can understand; (2) develop his skill in rapid calculation by short cuts and time tests; (3) show the necessity for checking, and develop the habit of checking; (4) develop the habit of thrift by planning budgets, keeping accounts, and becoming…

This text is designed for students continuing in the Chinese Bilingual Pilot Program, ESEA Title VII, at the seventh grade level. The text introduces different cultural aspects and general knowledge of Asia, and is divided into twenty-five lessons, having the following headings: Glimpses of Asia; Monsoon; Malaysia; Borneo; Asian Countries; Caste…

The 32 articles in this volume suggest many ideas to be considered in planning a middle school. The traditional junior high school organization and program have for some years caused much concern. This level of schooling has seemed to some to be too much influenced by the high school curriculum. Observations suggest that sixth graders are more…