Over her career as an English Language Arts classroom teacher for children of the full range of academic skills from 6th through 9th grades, Anne has developed instructional lessons that may be old-fashioned but remain highly effective in helping her students make academic progress.
Over the last decade, she has successfully marketed well over 200 of these specific lessons on a national teacher-based website. That means that classroom teachers who confront their own challenges in their classrooms have used her lessons to help their students.
This full range of products is now available to help you meet the needs of your children. That may mean helping them achieve genuine grade level, or it may mean taking their strong skills to the next academic level.
Starting today, Middle School Up Literacy will start making the same lessons that thousands of classroom teachers have used to help you with your children. We start by letting you review almost 25 specific lessons/bundles that have been popularly marketed to professional classroom teachers. Because of the bundles, there are more than 25 individual lessons you can review.
On the home page, the full array of lessons can be viewed and accessed under the headers of Grammar, Reading, and Jake Maddox Short Novels.
- For instance, the Maddox novels are for middle school students who have profound deficiencies in reading skills – comprehension and vocabulary. Anne has used them to help struggling students use the high interest stories of young people succeeding in sports to help her students become better readers. They enjoy the stories. They progress by reading. Books are available free from school and public libraries. If your child is a struggling reader, these novels may not be ‘flashy’ but they are very effective in help your child advance in reading comprehension.
- The grammar/usage/mechanics lessons walk students through the basic rules of English usage and grammar through the more complex, higher order skills. Grammar lessons – old fashioned? Yes. Realize this. When students reach high school, dealing with these deficiencies is not really a part of the curriculum. Going forward, that hurts even ‘good’ students on testing for higher education and in university or college classrooms where remediation is not on the instructional agenda.
- Those who aspire to a professional career need the ability to write clear and correct sentences and paragraphs.
- The reading lessons focus upon reading comprehension skills. Many reading lessons are also based upon a novel or short story that is commonly taught in junior high. Becoming a better reader requires students to READ MORE. In these lessons, struggling readers and advanced readers will find their perfect book, story, or passage. If a book or short story is not protected by copyright, it is included in its entirety. Otherwise, it will be a common title that is freely available in school or public libraries.
- There’s no magic wand a teacher or parent can wave to correct deficiencies in basic skills or reading comprehension. Within Anne’s lessons that are now available on Middle School Up Literacy, parents have access to tried-and-true instructional lessons used by a career teacher for decades – successfully.