Language Arts

100 Writing Starters for Middle school. The terror of the blank page intimidates many students. These books contain 100 high-interest topics that will get your middle school students writing. Features writing starters that begin fictional stories for students to complete. 108 pages. From Walch Education. Reproducible. Grades 6-8.

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400 Words That Work Presents everyday words in a real-life context. Motivates students to master must-know words through real life situations. These relevant, real-life activities provide the kind of repetition and review your students need to succeed. Grade 8 - Adult. Teacher's Edition sold separately - (Item #3023.)

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400 Words That Work - Teacher's Edition. Use along with "400 Words That Work" Student Edition (Item #0581). This teacher guide gives you complete instructional materials that include detailed teaching directions, extension activities, help for ESL students, and answer keys for each lesson. These relevant, real-life activities provide the kind of repetition and review your students need to succeed. Softcover. 64 pages. From Walch Educations. Learn More

The Outsiders Literature Unit from Teacher Created Resources. Each book in this series is a guide for using a well-known piece of literature. Included are sample plans, author information, vocabulary-building ideas, and cross-curricular activities. At the intermediate and Challenging levels, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending the novel are also included. 48 pages. Learn More

Research shows that strong vocabulary and word knowledge is directly linked to academic accomplishment. Make sure your students develop the rich vocabulary that's essential to successful reading comprehension and academic achievement with "A word a Day". Each book covers 144 words in 36 engaging weekly units. An oral review and a written assessment helps your students develop the vocabulary they need. 160 pages. Correlated to state standards. From Evan-Moor.

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Research shows that strong vocabulary and word knowledge is directly linked to academic accomplishment. Make sure your students develop the rich vocabulary that's essential to successful reading comprehension and academic achievement with "A word a Day". Each book covers 144 words in 36 engaging weekly units. An oral review and a written assessment helps your students develop the vocabulary they need. 160 pages. Correlated to state standards. From Evan-Moor.

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Research shows that strong vocabulary and word knowledge is directly linked to academic accomplishment. Make sure your students develop the rich vocabulary that's essential to successful reading comprehension and academic achievement with "A word a Day". Each book covers 144 words in 36 engaging weekly units. An oral review and a written assessment helps your students develop the vocabulary they need. 160 pages. Correlated to state standards. From Evan-Moor.

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Research shows that strong vocabulary and word knowledge is directly linked to academic accomplishment. Make sure your students develop the rich vocabulary that's essential to successful reading comprehension and academic achievement with "A word a Day". Each book covers 144 words in 36 engaging weekly units. An oral review and a written assessment helps your students develop the vocabulary they need. 160 pages. Correlated to state standards. From Evan-Moor.

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Research shows that strong vocabulary and word knowledge is directly linked to academic accomplishment. Make sure your students develop the rich vocabulary that's essential to successful reading comprehension and academic achievement with "A word a Day". Each book covers 144 words in 36 engaging weekly units. An oral review and a written assessment helps your students develop the vocabulary they need. 160 pages. Correlated to state standards. From Evan-Moor.

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Research shows that strong vocabulary and word knowledge is directly linked to academic accomplishment. Make sure your students develop the rich vocabulary that's essential to successful reading comprehension and academic achievement with "A word a Day". Each book covers 144 words in 36 engaging weekly units. An oral review and a written assessment helps your students develop the vocabulary they need. 160 pages. Correlated to state standards. From Evan-Moor.

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A Wrinkle in Time. It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.

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"Once, there was a man who went crazy from too much reading. He only read books about knighthood; that was the problem." So begins this charming retelling of Don Quixote de la Mancha, one of the most entertaining books ever written. Young people will delight in the hilarious adventures of the idealistic would be knight and his squire" Sancho Panza", as they set out to right the wrongs of the world. Ms. Palacios, a talented storyteller, captures all the flavor and irony of the original as the two heroes ride forth to conquer evil. Along the way the well meaning but addled knight errant mistakes a miserable in and its keeper for a castle and its lord; imagines an ordianry peasant girl to be the noble lady Dulcinea, perceives windmills as giants to be overcome, and gets enmeshed in other cases of mistaken identity. These and many more incidents and adventures are retold here in a beguiling, easy to read version, enhanced by six new black and white illustrations by Thea Kliros. This edition is sure to delight today's youngsters, just as the original has enchanted countless readers since its publication nearly 400 years ago. A Dover Publication. Softcover. 60 pages.

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The Quiz booklets consist of 6 analogy quizzes and 6 vocabulary quizzes. Each quiz has twenty problems; the answers to these may be found at the back of the booklet. At the top of each quiz is a heading that indicates its correspondence with a particular analogy or vocabulary group. All the quizzes are reproducible. Includes vocabulary quizzes and tests to be used with Analogies 1 Student Book, (Item #3752). Answers included. Learn More

Analogies 2 presents between 15 and 20 analogy units, with each unit consisting of 20 problems, and reviews techniques taught in Book 1. Includes vocabulary quizzes and tests to be used with Analogies 2 Student Book (Item #3753). Answers included. Learn More

Includes vocabulary quizzes and tests for Analogies 3 Student Book, (Item #5173). Answers included. Analogies 3 is composed of 3 or 4 Vocabulary Groups of 100 words each, with the alphabetized and defined words representing some of the most challenging vocabulary used in the analogies. Techniques from the previous books in the series are also reviewed. Learn More

The 100 stimulating writing activities in this journal are based on quotations that speak to older adolescents and adults. Writing prompts probe penetrating questions and sharpen critical-thinking skills. Grades 10-12. From Walch Education. Learn More

A collection of poems compiled by John Foster. Oxford University Press. Paperback. Learn More

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Aristotle Poetics. In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the Poetics introduces into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis ("imitation), amartia ("error), and katharsis ("purification"). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals, centering on characters of heroic stature, idealized yet true to life. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, the Poetics has informed serious thinking about drama ever since. Malcolm Health's lucid English translation makes the Poetics fully accessible to the modern reader. It is accompanied by an extended introduction, which discusses the key concepts in detail and includes suggestions for further reading. From Penguin Classics. 144 pages. Paperback.

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Poetry Writing Activities for Middle School: "As blue as a rainy day without a friend" Even the most skeptical students will love creating 5 feeling poems, simile poems, scribble poems, and more. Grades 6-8. From Walch Education. Teacher Guide available. (Item #4361) Learn More