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Glazer, Susan Mandel – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
In the past, some teachers treated word learning as an isolated subject--a list of words that were not connected to content or literature studies. This article describes how Candy Mulligan, a teacher at the Center for Reading and Writing at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, teaches vocabulary by selecting words from the students' seventh and…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Vocabulary Development, Learning Activities, Metacognition

Shepardson, Daniel P. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
The author investigated students' ideas about what defines an environment and how these ideas change across grade level and educational experience. A total of 81 students were sampled: 18 seventh graders, 20 eighth graders, and 24 ninth graders from general biology, and 19 ninth graders from college preparatory biology. The environments task was a…
Descriptors: Environment, Environmental Education, Student Attitudes, Grade 8
Walls, Theodore A.; Little, Todd D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
The authors examined relations among motivational styles and school adjustment in a sample of 786 7th and 8th grade U.S. students. Specifically, the authors tested the hypothesis that agency beliefs mediate relations between styles of motivational self-regulation (i.e., intrinsic, identified, introjected, and extrinsic) and school adjustment…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 7, Early Adolescents, Student Adjustment
Felton, Mark K. – Cognitive Development, 2004
Earlier research [Discourse Process. 23 (2/3) (2002) 135] on argumentation suggests that adults use advanced discourse strategies more consistently, more frequently, and more flexibly than do adolescents. The present study examines the development of argumentation skills during adolescence. Forty-eight seventh and eighth graders were assigned to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Grade 8, Grade 7, Pretests Posttests
Atwell, Nancie – Voices from the Middle, 2003
Writers thrive when they are motivated to work hard, have regular opportunities to practice and reflect, and benefit from a knowledgeable teacher who knows writing. Student feedback to lessons during writing workshop helped guide Nancie Atwell in her quest to provide the richest and most efficient path to better writing.
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Classroom Techniques, Writing Workshops, Middle School Teachers
Gillespie, Joanne S. – Middle School Journal (J3), 2004
In this article, the author relates her teaching experience with seventh and eighth graders using poetry activities, and she describes how she teaches poetry by using "published" poems and by engaging the students in classroom activities. Though students in seventh grade usually have knowledge of poetic conventions, the author takes time to review…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 7, Teaching Experience, Learning Activities
What Works Clearinghouse, 2004
"Saxon Math" focuses on fundamental mathematics skills, targeting children from kindergarten through grade 12. This report focuses on middle school math, defined as grades 6 through 9. The 6th grade curriculum covers simplifying expressions containing parentheses, graphing functions, and understanding ratios and proportions. The 7th…
Descriptors: State Standards, Mathematics Skills, Kindergarten, Geometry
Alvermann, Donna E.; Hagood, Margaret C.; Heron-Hruby, Alison; Hughes, Preston; Williams, Kevin B.; Yoon, Jun-Chae – Reading Psychology, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore whether or not adolescents who are deemed underachievers and who struggle to read school-assigned textbooks will engage with popular culture texts of their own choosing (e.g., magazines, comics, TV, video games, music CDs, graffiti, e-mail, and other Internet-mediated texts). The 60 student participants,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Cartoons, Video Games, Urban Schools
Shin, Richard; Daly, Bryan; Vera, Elizabeth – Professional School Counseling, 2007
Investigating variables associated with the school success and educational resilience of urban youth of color should be a high priority because of the persistent achievement gap in the United States. The current study examined individual and peer factors' relation to the school engagement of 132 seventh- and eighth-grade students from a diverse…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Norms, Ethnicity, Academic Achievement
Maxwell, Jeffrey S.; He, Beixin Julie; deProphetis, Wendy; Gimm, J. Aura – Science Scope, 2006
This article discusses how soap bubbles can be used to teach scientific principles such as phases of matter and the reflection of light. The study of soap bubbles addresses the National Science Education Standards for grades 5-8 related to the properties and changes of properties in matter. The exercises suggested here can be flexible in terms of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Optics, Molecular Structure, Demonstrations (Educational)
Ennett, Susan T.; Bauman, Karl E.; Hussong, Andrea; Faris, Robert; Foshee, Vangie A.; Cai, Li; DuRant, Robert H. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2006
To examine the peer context of adolescent substance use, social network analysis was used to measure three domains of attributes of peer networks: social embeddedness, social status, and social proximity to substance users. The sample was a panel of 5,104 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in three public school systems surveyed every 6 months for…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Adolescents, Substance Abuse, Social Networks
Dopke-Wilson, MariRae – Educators' Spotlight Digest, 2007
The spin on Frazer School Librarian Laurie LeFever's entry for Syracuse University's 2007 E*LIT competition is what made her school literacy project for children with disabilities really unique. Instead of working with students to create a project that would be targeted toward children with disabilities, she actually used students with…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Disabilities, Grade 8, School Libraries
Felix, Erika D.; McMahon, Susan D. – Journal of School Violence, 2007
Students experience many forms of victimization at school, yet few studies address more than one form of victimization. In this study, we explored the incidence of multiple forms of peer victimization, including direct verbal and physical, relational, and sexual harassment victimization among urban middle school students. We examined the overlap…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Incidence, Gender Differences, Victims of Crime
Cook, Thomas D.; Deng, Yingying; Morgano, Emily – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
This study examines how a wide variety of diverse friendship group attributes affect changes in indicators of school performance, social behavior, and mental health between early seventh and late eighth grade. Nine hundred and one middle school students named their friends. Independent data from these friends were used to construct friendship…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Early Adolescents, Drug Use, Social Behavior
Foshee, Vangie A.; Ennett, Susan T.; Bauman, Karl E.; Granger, Douglas A.; Benefield, Thad; Suchindran, Chirayath; Hussong, Andrea M.; Karriker-Jaffe, Katherine J.; DuRant, Robert H. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2007
The authors test biosocial models that posit interactions between biological variables (testosterone, estradiol, pubertal status, and pubertal timing) and social context variables (family, peer, school, and neighborhood) in predicting adolescent involvement with cigarettes and alcohol in a sample of 409 adolescents in Grades 6 and 8. Models…
Descriptors: Correlation, Context Effect, Grade 6, Social Environment