Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Language Arts, Grades 6-8 / Edition 1

by Marcia L. Tate

Overview

((Teachers Catalog, Series Description, C Copy))
These ready-to-use, brain-compatible activities help teachers reinforce student learning through graphic organizers and other visual strategies such as semantic maps, charts, models, graphs, webs, and more.

((Dealers Catalog, Series Description, C Copy))
These essential resources help teachers inspire active student learning with brain-compatible, standards-based activities; graphic organizers; and other visual strategies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412952309
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/20/2007
Series:	Engage the Brain Series
Edition description:	Grades 6-8
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Marcia L. Tate, Ed D, is the former executive director of professional development for the De Kalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her thirty-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director.

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the eight books in the best-selling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites series and four additional books: Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning?, 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K–8, and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning 9–12, and her latest book, Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms that is designed to address both the personal and professional lives of all educators. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the twenty strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.

Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University.

Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher, and nine grandchildren: Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, Aaron, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, Noah, and Alyssa.

Marcia and her husband own the company Developing Minds, Inc. and can be contacted by calling the company at [phone], emailing her at marciata@ bellsouth.net, or by visiting her website at www.developingmindsinc.com. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @Dr Marcia Tate.

Table of Contents

Connections to Standards
Introduction
Put It into Practice
Reading
Writing
Language Conventions
References

Editorial Reviews

“The different grade levels and approaches of these workbooks make them a top pick for any library strong in classroom workbooks and activities for teachers. Each workbook holds some 96 pages of projects, with fill-in blanks and ideas perfect for photocopying and classroom use. All are outstanding workbooks that teachers will appreciate.”

California Bookwatch