Engage the Brain: Games, Language Arts, Grades 6-8

Engage the Brain: Games, Language Arts, Grades 6-8

by Marcia L. Tate
Engage the Brain: Games, Language Arts, Grades 6-8

Engage the Brain: Games, Language Arts, Grades 6-8

by Marcia L. Tate

Paperback(Grades 6-8)

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Overview

This exciting new resource offers fun, innovative games in language arts. Based on the most recent brain research, the games engage students in becoming active, motivated learners.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412959278
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 02/28/2008
Series: Engage the Brain: Games Series
Edition description: Grades 6-8
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.30(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 (770) 918-5039, 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

Introduction
Put It Into Practice
Reading
Writing
Language Conventions
Listening and Speaking
Answer Key
References
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