Need some reading recommendations for the summer? The middle and high school librarians at Shanghai American School have curated a list of titles that will satisfy all the inner bookworms in us. Check them out below, and ...
Teachers have labored toenliven summer readingfor decades. In a 1997 NCTE journal article, Florida middle school ELA teacher Gloria Pipkin, who later wrote books for Heinemann and edited for Scholastic in the 2000’s, noted the challenges (quoted inReadWriteThink): Of course we want our student...
Middle school students faced plenty of issues before the social, political, and economic upheavals of the past few years. At the same time,challenges to what students are allowed to read in schoolhave made some of their experiences even more marginalized than they had been. With that in mind...
and I’ve read so few of them, but I have made progress since I started doing this. This year, I needed to read Screwtape Letters to prep for my 8th grader reading it this year in homeschool. But I already read it years ago
Summer reading Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh Middle schooler Junie Kim is facing bullying(t凌)at school, but she keeps quiet. Then, for a school project, Junie interviews her grandparents, who grew up in Korea during wartime in the 1950s. In their story of struggle, Junie finds the coura...
Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) K12Science Podcast: Gemologist I was recently reading the November/December 2024 issue of “The Science Teacher” a publication of the National Science Teaching Association. In this issue, I read the “Care...
What: The United States Super STEM Competition (USSSC) is a nonprofit organization hosting an annual event aimed at challenging the creativity of middle school, high school, and college students. The 2023 focus is on showcasing innovative skills towards the common goal of success. Participants reg...
14-year-old Karthik Raghavan is spending his last summer of middle school delivering groceries for his father’s Indian grocery store. When he’s not playing delivery boy, he’s hanging out with his best friends and sneaking glances at his crush whenever he runs into her. It’s the early...
66. My First Free Summer by Julia Alvarez “I never had summer—I had summer school. First grade, summer school. Second grade, summer school. Thirdgradesummerschoolfourthgradesummerschool. In fifth grade, I vowed I would get interested in fractions, the presidents of the United States, Mesopo...
Short Stories for Middle School Students Here are some short stories that are appropriate for middle school students. These stories deal with a variety of themes and are easy to read. They are great to use as an introduction to different writing styles.1...