Jennings Junior High

Communication Arts

Teacher Resource Page

Books We Love:

The Bluford Series

The Giver-Lois Lowry

The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire-Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay-Suzanne Collins

Diary of a Wimpy Kid-Jeff Kinney

Monster-Walter Dean Myers

The Skin I'm In-Sharon Flake

Sidewalk Story-Sharon Bell Mathis

Sister-Eloise Greenfield

Fly Away Home-Eve Bunting

Smoky Night-Eve Bunting

Mr. Popper's Penguins-Richard and Florence Atwater

Chalk Box Kid-Clyde Robert Bulla

Maniac Magee-Jerry Spinelli

James and the Giant Peach-

Roald Dahl

On My Honor-Marion Dane Bauer

Tomie dePaolo's Book of Poems

Teacher Resources

Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary

www.middleweb.com

Great Vocabulary Site

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/9943

Strategies for Teaching Comprehension

 

 

 

Communication Arts GLE's

DESE Course Level Expectations

Six Traits of Writing

Strategies for Each Trait

Interactive Unit for the 6 Traits

Research on the Six Traits

Read 180

Scholastic's Website

Research on Read 180

Glencoe Literature

Back to Comm. Arts. Home Page

Strategies for Inference Skills

 

Article on teaching inference

 

Marzano on Teaching Inference

 

 

Strategies for Point of View

 

Great site with quizzes and flashcards

 

 

Point of View

 

Point of View Quiz

 

 

Aesops Fables.

Practice Tests for Communication Arts

Graphic Organizers

Time For Kids Magazine

Corrective Reading Program

 

Research on the Corrective Reading Program