Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts--and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls "word poverty." Drawing on research and experience, Sprenger provides a rich array of engaging strategies to help educators across all content areas and grade levels not only teach students a large quantity of words but also ensure that they know these words well. You'll find An overview of how the brain learns and retains new words, including the three stages of building long-term memories: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Encoding strategies to introduce words in novel ways and jump-start the memory process. Rehearsal strategies to help students put words into long-term storage. Review strategies to help students strengthen their retrieval skills and gain the automaticity needed for reading comprehension. Ways to address planning and assessment as crucial, intersecting supports of a robust vocabulary program. This comprehensive resource has everything you need to help your students profoundly expand their vocabulary, enabling them to speak, read, and write with greater understanding and confidence.

Brain Challenge: A Fun Way to Learn Vocabulary offers a unique, educational approach to teaching vital skills to your child. The approach used is through PUZZLES, RIDDLES, QUIZZES, and PRACTICE STATEMENTS The Parts of Speech Grammar Grammar Mistakes Misused English Words Capitalization Punctuation Figures of Speech * You may need to print the material to practice in the activities.

Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.

The Brain Aerobics language arts book for fourth to ninth grades activates your students' brains to help them learn and remember language arts concepts. Students use reasoning skills and creativity to solve puzzles and complete games while reinforcing grammar concepts and highlighting vocabulary words. This language arts resource book includes magic squares, twisted words, palindromes, and more! 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 mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

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STEM Labs for Middle Grades offers activities that challenge students to apply scientific inquiry, content knowledge, and technological design to solve real-world problems. An excellent addition to your curriculum, this supplement will help cultivate students’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. 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.

Stimulate students’ creative-thinking skills, and focus on social issues such as sociology, psychology, ethics, and other topics including civics, geography, and futurism. Teachers can tailor the material to student abilities and backgrounds. An at-a-glance thinking skills chart is included.