Created by teachers and classroom-tested, these fun and meaningful enrichment activities build children's skills in problem solving, decision making, cooperative learning, divergent thinking, and communication while promoting self-awareness, tolerance, character development, and service. Kids create books, write stories, resolve to help others, explore their own values, discover why mistakes can sometimes be beneficial, practice patience, and more in projects that combine enjoyment with learning.

Growing Good Kids: 28 Activities to Enhance Self-Awareness, Compassion, and Leadership (The Free Spirited Classroom)

Children's Books

Delisle, Deb

Delisle, James R.

Delisle, Jim

Activities, Crafts & Games

Free Spirit Pub.

Growing Good Kids: 28 Activities to Enhance Self-Awareness, Compassion, and Leadership

Science & Math

Delisle, Ph.D. Jim

Behavioral Sciences

Free Spirit Publishing

Improve proficiency in core language arts concepts with 24 classroom-ready activities that align with Common Core State Standards. By engaging students in meaningful language arts activities that relate to their lives, teachers can promote authentic writing in which students explore their personal thoughts and beliefs, resulting in richer work. Complete with step-by-step directions and student examples—and developed and tested in public and private classrooms with students of varying abilities—Building Strong Writers in Middle School helps students understand themselves and one another more deeply, contemplate how their writing can affect the larger world, and express themselves in literary forms. With writing now being required across the curriculum, teaching language arts at the middle school level is more important than ever. Digital content includes reproducible handouts.

Building Strong Writers in Middle School: Classroom-Ready Activities That Inspire Creativity and Support Core Standards

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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