

To download any of the lists, go to HAISLN. Middle graders have both psychological and intellectual needs that teachers must help them meet to raise their motivational level. Grades 11 & 12 (including The Book Thief) Grades 9 & 10 (including Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon and The Catcher in the Rye) Grade 7 & 8 (including The Crossover, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) Grade 6 (including How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous) If they are a bad influence encourage your child to find new friends. Grade 5 (including The Meaning of Maggie, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, and ) Don’t leave it to the school or his friends to educate him. For younger students not proficient in writing, they can draw pictures of their answers before sharing out. Grades 3 & 4 (including Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures and The Lightning Thief) Encourage students to write down their answers before raising their hand (or blurting out). Grades 1 & 2 (including Quest, Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla, Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, Each Kindness, "Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell,"f and Ivy + Bean) For example, have them set their own goals at the start of the year which you can revisit together later to track progress. If they suspect favoritism, bias, or unfairness, students are more likely to be turned off and lose the motivation to learn. Letting your child have increasing ownership of their lives is important but it needs to be done in a positive manner. Fair treatment: To feel satisfied, students must feel that there was equity in the objectives, activities, and grades in a learning activity. Preschool, Prekindergarten, Kindergarten (including And Then It’s Spring,, Waiting, The Lion and the Mouse and Firefly July: a Year of Very Short Poems) Here are some great tips and tricks for motivating your middle school student: Ownership.

#Raising middle schoolers pdf#
Eight reading lists are available in pdf format: These annotated reading lists, which contain a lot of more recent books, come from the Houston Area Independent Schools Library Network (HAISLN).
