Education/Classroom > Grades 7 to 12
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Writing Thief
Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing A major part of good writing instruction is finding the right mentor texts to share with students. Within this book, you'll discover more than ninety excellent mentor texts, along with straightforward activities that incorporate the traits of writing across informational, narrative, and argument modes. Ruth's renowned easy-going style and friendly tone make this a book you'll turn to again and again as you guide your students to reach their full potential as deep, thoughtful readers and writers.
$37.95
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Writing Power
Teaching writing strategies that engage thinking This book is a practical and thoughtful resource that shows teachers how to encourage students to consider the reader's thinking as they write. Using the same five thinking strategies from Adrienne Gear's ground-breaking Reading Power books Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform young writers will learn how to engage and invite their readers' thinking through their writing. Writing Power guides teachers through a series of lessons focusing on each of the strategies and includes scripted, sequential lessons, recommended anchor books, reproducible, and assessment rubrics.
$28.95
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E. Jane Garland and Sandra Clark Worry Taming For Teens
Written specifically for youth, this manual explains the nature and basis for anxiety, the different types of anxiety, and includes information on medication. It also includes specific coping strategies for youth. This is part of the TWD Series. Not eligible for further discounts.
$16.00
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Why Didn't They Just Say That? Peerspective - ASD Curriculum
Teaching Secondary Students with High-Functioning Autism to Decode the Social World Using Peerspective PEERspective is a complete curriculum that teaches high school students self-awareness, self-acceptance, relationship building, conflict resolution, managing stress management and wellness, and many other topics that have lifelong impact on students' lives. The curriculum is popular among students with ASD as well as their NT peers, leading to friendships and relationships far beyond the classroom.
$32.95
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Why Can't I...Beating the Blues (Self-Regulation)
To Survive and Thrive at School Illustrated with Elizabeth Bailey. Included are strategies to cope with common school stressors, examples of how “the blues†might feel in the body, and multiple ways of energizing up. It also includes a section with tips for parents, educators and counselors. It highlights some of the common causes of “the blues†in young students and provides strategies to support these young learners. Titles in this series include So Then I..(recess stress), What if I..(worries), Instead I..(on calm), But When I..(on attention) and this one – Why Can’t I..(on the blues). Also available as a set of five books - see Series on the Menu under the Search Bar.
$16.95
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What Do You Stand For? For Teens
A Guide to Building Character Young people need guidance from caring adults to build strong, positive character traits—but they can also build their own. This book invites children and teens to explore and practice honesty, kindness, empathy, integrity, tolerance, patience, respect, and more. Quotations and background information set the stage. Dilemmas challenge readers to think about, discuss, and debate positive traits. Activities invite them to explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their communities. True stories profile real kids who exemplify positive traits; resources point the way toward character-building books, organizations, programs, and websites. Grades 7 and up. There are three more items in this series - cards, character buttons, and a book for kids, separately priced, all under the "What Do You Stand For?" title.
$46.50
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What Do You Really Want? Teens & Goals
How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens Setting and sticking to goals can ease stress and anxiety, boost concentration, and make life more satisfying. This updated and revised edition of a trusted step-by-step guide helps teens articulate their goals and put them in writing, set priorities and deadlines, overcome obstacles, build a support system, use positive self-talk, celebrate successes, and more. Updated with new and inspiring stories from teens pursuing their goals, easy-to-use tips for setting and reaching goals, and information on using technology tools to aid in goal setting, the book also includes downloadable forms to use in goal-setting activities. Grades 7 & Up Ages 11 and up
$27.95
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Traits of Writing
The Complete Guide for Middle School: Grades 6-8 This book contains classroom-tested materials developed just for teachers of grades 6-8. Brand-new scoring guides, scored sample papers, Think About, warm-up exercises, focus lessons, and activities for each trait, organized by that trait's key qualities, make it easy to assess writing and deliver targeted instruction. With CD of reproducible forms that is compatible with interactive white boards.
$40.99
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Tomboy Survival Guide
Tomboy Survival Guide warmly recounts Ivan's past as a diffident yet free-spirited tomboy, and maps their journey through treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don't quite stick, to a place of self-acceptance and an authentic and personal strength.Tomboy Survival Guide warmly recounts Ivan's past as a diffident yet free-spirited tomboy, and maps their journey through treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don't quite stick, to a place of self-acceptance and an authentic and personal strength. Ages 15+
$19.95
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Teens Relationships with People, Places and Things
Teens usually connect the word relationships only with other people. The activities in Teens - Relationships with People, Places and Things, will help teens explore their relationships in all facets of their lives and they will discover which are healthy and which ones need change. Teens will learn skills they will use throughout their lifetime to build and maintain healthy relationships.
$72.95
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Teens Managing Life's Expectations
This workbook gives you the tools you need to work with teens as they manage all of the expectations thrown at them. The activities in this workbook help teens recognize, evaluate, and revise as needed expectations from others and themselves. Each chapter focuses on specific skills that teens will learn to help them manage expectations including Decision making, Empathy, Goal-setting and prioritizing, Gratitude, Resiliency, Strength from adversity, and Teamwork. Each activity in the workbook has clear instructions for the facilitator and offers a variety of options including journal writing, role playing, group discussion opportunities, goal-setting, and free expression activities. All of the worksheets and handouts are fully reproducible. Reproducible and spiral bound to facilitate making copies of the various activities and handouts.
$72.95
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Teens Discovering Identity and Moving Toward Independence
The purpose of this workbook is to help teens discover and shape their identities in all aspects of their lives and apply that knowledge in learning independent living skills. The creative reproducible handouts, exercises and activities in this workbook will help teens reach the following goals: Bring out the best from within, Build new strengths, Emulate positive role models, Reinforce each other’s individualism, Demonstrate age-appropriate autonomy, Develop independent living skills. The eight chapters include the following:1) Personal Identity, 2) Physical Identity, 3) Emotional Identity, 4) Cognitive Identity 5) Social Identity, 6) Spiritual Identity, 7) Identity and Independence, 8) Daily Skills Matter.
$72.95
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Teens Actions, Consequences and Rewards
Facilitator Reproducible Activities for Groups and Individuals. This workbook was written to encourage teens to stop and think before they act, consider the consequences of their actions, and to capitalize on the rewards of positive actions. The seven chapters include the following: 1) Healthy and Unhealthy Risks 2) Decisions 3) Types of Consequences and Rewards 4) Danger 5) Attributes 6) Circumstances 7) Rewards.
$72.95
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Teens Accept and Embrace Diversity
Teens - Accept and Embrace Diversity capitalizes on what comes naturally – cohesion not cruelty. Teens can un-learn bigotry and become broad-minded, experience empathy for people they previously judged and replace criticism with compassion. To welcome diversity reduces and/or diminishes prejudice and nurtures respect for one’s own and others’ cultures. The activities in this book will encourage teens to accept other cultures' various views and to become aware of the influences of their own home life, environment, friends, community, and media. They will be encouraged to think for themselves.
$72.95
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Teen Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention Workbook
A Clinician's Guide to Assist Teen Clients is a proactive approach to dealing with the many characteristics that may prompt teens to experience self-harm and/or suicide ideation. Designed to be used with clients in the care of a trained clinician, the purpose of this workbook is to provide you with information and tools that build upon each other to help your clients manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to self-harm and suicide. It offers practical, step-by-step guide to present a detailed understanding of the context in which self-harm and suicide play out in a person s life, warning signs and risk factors experienced by people suffering with thoughts and actions of hurting themselves, ways to prevent suicide ideation, and methods for finding a healthy support network. Reproducible Activity Handouts and Assessments included.
$43.95
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Teen Practical Life Skills Workbook
Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts The Teen Practical Life Skills Workbook contains five separate sections to help participants learn more about themselves and the competencies they possess in many life skills areas. The sections of this book are: Problem-solving, Money management, Time management, Self-awareness and Personal change. By combining reflective assessment and journaling, teens will be exposed to a powerful method of verbalizing and writing to reflect on and solve problems. This is one of a series of 14 books covering mental health and lifestyle issues familiar to all professionals working with teens, all available at ODIN BOOKS
$72.95
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Teen Communication Skills Workbook
This facilitator's workbook is unique because it combines both powerful psychological tools designed to enhance communication skills: self-assessment and journaling. The Teen Communication Skills Workbook contains five separate sections. In each, participants will learn more about themselves as well as the impact of skillful and non-skillful communicating: Active Listening, Nonverbal Communications, Verbal Communications, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Negotiation Skills.
$72.95
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Teen - Transitional Life Skills
Transitioning from the teen years into adulthood can be very exciting, yet scary; and it always includes “growing painsâ€. The workbooks in this series address some of the life skills teens need to master in order to transition successfully in adulthood. Facilitators appreciate the user-friendly activities in these workbooks as the exercises help teens develop the skills needed to develop into strong, caring adults. Each spiral bound workbook in this ten-book set contains FULLY REPRODUCIBLE activities for groups and individuals.
$650.00
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Teen - Mental Health & Life Skills Facilitator
This is a 14-book FULLY REPRODUCIBLE set. The workbooks contain self-assessments, journaling activities, therapy worksheets for teens, and educational handouts in each workbook help people engage in self-reflection, examine their thoughts and feelings, learn new skills, and explore ways to lead healthier, happier lives. Each facilitator workbook addresses a specific mental health or life skills issue. Each title is available for purchase as an individual book or as a series.
$915.00
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Talk About It! Teen Communication Games
Talk About It is a versatile set of 12 games that facilitate conversation and engage teens. Talk About It includes eight topic decks, suggestions for play, and two dice. Topics include Icebreakers, Values, Family, Friendships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Feelings, and Situations. Talk About It helps clinicians, educators, parents and others build strong relationships with teens in a fun, simple, and low-pressure way!
$92.95
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Struggling Readers Instruction Strategies
Why band-aids don't stick and worksheets don't work The practical, classroom-tested reading instruction strategies in Struggling Readers are carefully chosen to be effective with students in Grades 3-9. More than band-aid solutions that focus on discrete skills that don't transfer to real reading, this insightful book shows teachers how to give struggling readers what they really need: the opportunity to read texts they can and want to read; explicit instruction in long-term strategies they can use on their own; confidence in themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers.
$24.95
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Struggle to Be Strong
In thirty first-person narratives, teen writers tell about overcoming obstacles in their lives, including new stories about social media, gender identity, and drug addiction. As teens read, they discover they're not alone in facing life's difficulties. They learn about the seven resiliencies everyone needs to face their troubles, live through them, and move forward with courage, confidence, and hope.
$29.50
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Stress Reduction Card Deck
Based on the “go-to†de-stress success, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens, this card deck offers the same proven-effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) approach for soothing stress in a fun, take-anywhere package. Using these cards, you’ll find lasting relief from stress so you can focus on your fabulous future!
$28.95
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Stress Can Really Get on Your Nerves
Stress can make you feel anxious, awful, and afraid. It can leave you jumpy and jittery, upset and uptight. When kids show signs of stress, they need stress management tools that work. With jokes, fun illustrations, and plenty of authentic examples, this book helps kids understand what stress is—and gives tons of tips to cope. Refreshed to address modern stressors like electronic devices and social media, this updated classic helps kids deal with stress like a seasoned panic mechanic.
$16.95
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