Poetry Comprehension for grades 6 to 8 focuses on the reading standards for ELA to help your students improve comprehension skills. With this book, students will acquire and apply the skills necessary for analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating poetry. Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

Have you ever wished you had an instructional coach at your side to help align your curriculum with the tech-related indicators found in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? You’re not alone. Nearly all U.S. states have adopted the Common Core, and teachers across the country are redesigning their lessons to meet the standards, including the ed tech component. In this book, you’ll learn how to shift your educational practice and integrate technology standards found within the Common Core into your curriculum. The authors clearly explain the standards and demonstrate how to incorporate them through classroom-tested examples that harness a robust list of student-friendly software, websites and apps.

Write on! Write with students in grades 5 and up using Writing: Fundamentals for the Middle-School Classroom. This 128-page book helps students learn how to express themselves through writing. It provides open-ended lessons of personal writing, descriptive writing, short stories, poetry, and reports. This excellent classroom supplement also includes chapters arranged in order of increasing difficulty and activities that allow students to choose their own writing topics. It supports NCTE and IRA standards.

Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers.

Every student can be a poet with this captivating classroom supplement!. It features a variety of poetic forms with examples to illustrate how they are constructed and writing activities for each. Forms covered include the couplet, tercet, short stanza, c