Identifying Key Ideas and Supporting Details These 6th grade students work on their own and with partners to navigate a text about Ancient Egypt. The teacher helps her students to identify key ideas, discuss details, and draw inferences from what they’re read.
Illustrated books for middle schoolers
Author Stephen Pasts (Timmy Failure series) talks about why he thinks his illustrated chapter books for middle-grade readers are so popular — it starts with humor and familiarity with comic books.
