Activity Books

Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities - Jeff Zwiers
Topics include: A crash course in reading comprehension -- Assessment and instruction that build comprehension habits -- Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing -- Connecting to background knowledge -- Making inferences and predictions -- Generating and answering questions -- Understanding and remembering word meanings -- Monitoring one's own comprehension

Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities - Jeff Zwiers
Topics include: Academic thinking with academic language -- Teacher habits for developing thinking, language, and content -- Analyzing -- Comparing -- Categorizing and classifying -- Identifying cause and effect -- Problem solving -- Persuading -- Empathizing -- Synthesizing -- Interpreting -- Evaluating -- Communicating -- Applying -- Activities for multiple intelligences -- Deep questions and controversial topics -- List of familiar tunes for making up songs