These updated discussion starters based on the wisdom books of the Old Testament can stand alone or lead into a full-blown Bible study with help from the leaders' accompanying instructions. Includes Bible references, Internet resources, and other suggested further activities. Click here to read a sample chapter! Adobe Acrobat is required. Click here to download

Get Your Students Talking About the Bible And God. And themselves, their beliefs, their questions, their lives. About the things that matter to them. Do it conveniently and effectively with Junior High-Middle School TalkSheets--Updated!, part of the best-selling discussion-starting TalkSheets series from Youth Specialties, now updated for new-millennium students. Here are 50 creative discussions that focus on relevant, real-life topics: Click here to read a sample chapter! Adobe Acrobat is required. Click here to download

Start Discussions That Matter to Your Junior Highers & Middle Schoolers About God. About themselves, their, beliefs, their questions, their lives.More Junior High-Middle School TalkSheets--Updated! contains the same kind of provocative, compelling, discussion-starting questions that are hallmarks of the best-selling TalkSheets series--now updated for new-millennium students. Here are 50 more creative discussions that focus on relevant, real-life topics: The Future Death Priorities AIDS Heaven & Hell Premarital Sex Prayer Knowing God Homosexuality Materialism & Consumerism . . . and 40 more subjects of perennial interest to teenagers. TalkSheets are convenient, effective one-page reproducible handouts with intriguing questions that will get churched kids and unchurched kids alike talking and thinking about the Bible--and how its principles affect their daily lives.Use TalkSheets to launch your own lesson--or use them as stand-alone Bible studies. Each TalkSheet comes with detailed information and suggestions for discussion leaders: Bible references galore, Internet resources, further group exploration, and activities to pursue during and after the meeting. More Junior High-Middle School TalkSheets--Updated! is the perfect discussion-starting resource for youth meetings, small groups and cell groups, Sunday school, and camps and retreats. Click here to read a sample chapter! Adobe Acrobat is required. Click here to download

Do you ever wonder how some teachers seem to have everything in order all the time? Learn their secrets. Find out how to get yourself organized so that you can organize your classroom.

Keep a robust collection of ready-made report card comments at your fingertips! Hundreds of thoughtful, constructive, and easily customizable messages in English and Spanish are designed to strengthen parent-teacher communication and improve student performance. Includes comments for: Math, reading, science and other academic areas Attendance, work habits, and other areas of personal development Homework Above and below average students Year-end messages And much more

The Bible is a photo album, brimming with self-portraits of a God who wants to be known. God has put these pictures in the Bible to reveal his character. By examining them, we discover who God is and why he's worth knowing better. And we discover something else: who he wants us to be. He wants us to copy his picture into our own character. Wild Truth Bible Lessons - Pictures of God 2 is a guide to 12 God-pictures taken straight from the Photo Album. They are active Bible lessons for junior high and middle school Sunday school classes or youth group meetings, each one based on one of the 50 pictures of God and presented energetically, relevantly, and scripturally in the companion student book Wild Truth Journal: Pictures of God. The lessons are loaded with off-the-wall and easy-to-do discussion starters, video ideas, scripts, games with a point. And, of course, Bible passages and studies that springboard junior highers from the abstract into the concrete as (open Bibles in hand) they explore the nature of God in a lively, relevant way, and then begin practicing in their own lives the traits of God. Here's how the lessons are organized: * Picture Prep grabs your group's attention to prepare them for what's ahead. * Action Shot takes your students into the Bible to catch God in the act of revealing his character. * Self-Portrait explores the given aspect of God's character - how it makes God just that much more awesome...and why it's a very good trait for us to have, too. * Print It! challenges your students to print God's picture into their own lives by living out his character in an immediately practical way.

The inspiring story of Louisa, a historical novel loosely based on the life of African-American poetess Phillis Wheatley, now has an excellent companion resource book for elementary and middle school teachers to teach their students about slavery in colonial America, human rights, and literature in early America.

To meet the instructional needs of the increasingly diverse students in today''s middle and high schools, teachers must be more than content area specialists--they must also know how to teach reading. In this practical resource, two teachers share the research-based, classroom-tested techniques they''ve developed that allow you to teach reading strategies as you teach content. Easy-to-use strategies help you pinpoint students'' strengths so you can differentiate your instruction with targeted lessons. This powerful, yet practical approach will help every student succeed. For use with Grades 6-12.

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Teaching Comprehension with Questioning Strategies That Motivate Middle School Readers

This one book has it all--weekly lesson plan pages and class record sheets that cover 7 different subjects for two 20-week semesters. The class record section is set up so that a student's record for an entire quarter of 10 weeks can be read on facing pages. Plus helpful ideas and handy reference materials.

Weekly lesson plan pages for 6 different subjects. Records for each of four 10 week quarters can be read on facing pages. Plus, helpful tips for substitute teachers.