Middle School Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives

   Bridging the Everyday/Academic Divide, Third Edition

   Edited by Donna E. Alvermann, Kathleen A. Hinchman

   Like previous editions, the third edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives invites middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. Recognizing that digital media, social networking phenomena are now central in adolescents’...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
2. MORE! Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding

   In-Depth Discussion and Reasoning Activities, 3rd Edition

   By Susan J. Lamon

   More is not an answer key but a resource that provides the scaffolding for the groundbreaking approach to fraction and ratio instruction presented in its companion text, Teaching Fractions and Ratios. Keeping the focus on the reasoning needed to properly understand and teach rational numbers, More...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
3. Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding

   Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers, 3rd Edition

   By Susan J. Lamon

   For over a decade, Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding has pushed readers beyond the limits of their current understanding of fractions and rational numbers, challenging them to refine and explain their thinking without falling back on rules and procedures they have relied on...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
4. Athletics Challenges

   A Resource Pack for Teaching Athletics, 2nd Edition

   By Kevin Morgan

   Athletics Challenges is a practical resource file designed to ensure that all students have a positive learning experience in track and field athletics. It provides a wide range of activities and teaching approaches to enable teachers and coaches to promote a climate of inclusion, enjoyment and...

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
5. Instructional Strategies for Middle and Secondary Social Studies

   Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management

   By Bruce E. Larson, Timothy A. Keiper

   Instructional Strategies for Middle and Secondary Social Studies is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies. Writing explicitly for pre-service social studies teachers, veteran teacher educators Bruce E....

   Published February 8th 2011 by Routledge
6. Teaching Literature to Adolescents

   2nd Edition

   By Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Susan Hynds, Jeffrey Wilhelm

   Designed to introduce prospective English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms, this popular textbook explores a variety of innovative approaches that incorporate reading, writing, drama, talk, and media production. Each chapter is organized around...

   Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
7. Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society

   Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom

   By Mark Baildon, James S. Damico

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to...

   Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
8. Enhancing Student Learning in Middle School

   By Martha Casas

   A comprehensive introduction to middle school teaching, this textbook focuses explicitly on instructional strategies that encourage adolescents to become active participants in their own learning within a world of accountability and standardized testing. The author, an experienced middle school...

   Published August 11th 2010 by Routledge
9. Learning to Teach in the Primary School

   2nd Edition

   Edited by James Arthur, Teresa Cremin

   How can you become an effective primary school teacher? What do you need to be able to do? What do you need to know? Flexible, effective and creative primary school teachers require subject knowledge, an understanding of their pupils and how they learn, a range of strategies for managing behaviour...

   Published March 28th 2010 by Routledge
10. Educational Transitions

    Moving Stories from Around the World

    Edited by Divya Jindal-Snape

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe. Transitions are phases in which pupils, peer groups and teachers have to renegotiate and rebuild their learning environment...

    Published December 9th 2009 by Routledge