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Quick and easy to teach and do, these activities offer K 6 teachers engaging ways to give students rich practice in language arts. Get language arts themed ideas for all four Morning Meeting components: greeting, sharing, group activity, and morning message. Browse for activities that fit your students' needs, interests, and current language arts work. Use the book's activity finder charts to search for activities by Common Core State Standard or language arts content. For quick access, the charts are organized by grade level and tell you whether each activity is a greeting, a sharing, a group activity, or a morning message. Each activity includes: Brief, easy-to-follow directions Ideas for variations when applicable Ideas for extensions when applicable Open-ended questions to help students reflect on their learning Common Core State Standards and language arts content supported Materials needed Key vocabulary to reinforce

This book gives practical advice, tips, charts, planners, examples to teachers based on Responsive Classroom practices.

These tried-and-true learning structures encourage all students to do their best learning, stay fully engaged, and work with one another in dynamic, purposeful, and respectful ways. Discover how to meet the developmental needs of young adolescents for physical movement and socializing with peers while helping students meet lesson objectives in any content area. Samples of learning structures include: Consensus Mapping: Small groups of students work together to identify and reach agreement on the main ideas; Debate Duos: Pairs of students learn to respectfully debate both sides of an issue and consider multiple perspectives; Jigsaws: Small groups of students explore content in greater depth and then share their new knowledge with others.

Teachers know it instinctively, research bears it out: Students learn more, and with more joy, when offered intriguing lessons that connect with their lives and interests while challenging them to stretch and grow. In this book, you'll find practical, ready-to-use strategies for creating active and exciting lessons. You'll learn about: Partnering and grouping students for optimum learning; using interactive learning structures such as Maitre d' and Swap Meets to support active learning; incorporating acting, drawing, debating, and more into daily lessons while still meeting rigorous learning goals; infusing lessons with choices in what or how to learn to increase students' ownership of their learning; and more.

Through your use of words and tone, you can more fully engage students in their learning and support their positive development as young adults. You'll gain practical information about the key types of positive teacher language, including: envisioning language; reinforcing language; reminding language; redirecting language; open-ended questions. Book features: guidelines for using each type of language; practical tips to strengthen your use of language; numerous examples to use as models; charts to help you track your progress.

First edition written by Roxann Kriete and Paula Denton. This edition written by Mike Anderson.

These quick, easy-to-learn activities give students much-needed mental and physical breaks, plus safe, structured ways to interact with peers. As a result, students are refocused and recharged and can more fully engage with the content you teach. Some brain breaks, like "In the Bag," are calming and reduce stress; others, like "Twisted Brain," energize bodies and minds. And you can use brain breaks anywhere, anytime! This handy book includes: Clear, easy-to-follow instructions Tips for success Sample words and actions Suggested variations Reproducible handouts

Middle school students are at an age when it's natural to test limits and try out aspects of adulthood. However, they still need (and crave!) the presence of caring adults who can help them develop healthy identities, relationships, and behaviors, This book shows educators how to tap into young adolescents' desire for autonomy in order to help them =become self-motivated to behave in productive and positive ways-t benefit themselves, their peers and the greater school community.--Publisher's description.

Subtitle of previous editions: Children in the classroom, ages 4-14.