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Below you will find a listing of some of our helpful materials. These materials will be helpful to you and your at-risk students. Please check back often for additions to this area.

Articles to Assist At-Risk Students

Why Are Students Unmotivated? 10 reasons students are unmotivated.
Assessment and Intervention Process Flow chart illustrating the process of intervening with at-risk students.
Scaffolding Definition of scaffolding a lesson.
Skills Training Graphic illustration skills training necessary for at-risk youth.
Grading, Assessment, and Proficiency Guidelines 14 guidelines for grading, assessment, and proficiency in any subject area for at-risk students.
What is Fair? Poster indicating what is fair in education.
Dealing with Difficult Parents Article explains several approaches to communicating with difficult parents.
How Can Grades Motivate Students? Article detailing how grades motivate or demotivate students.
What is Alternative Assessment? Alternative Assessment - what it is and how to implement it.
   
   

Alternative Assessment

ACT Prompt Writing Rubric Quickly assess student writing in response to ACT-like prompts. Improve ACT writing scores with practice.
Children's Story Rubric Assess creative writing skills such as setting, theme, conflict, character development, and point of view.
Fairy Tale Rubric Rubric to assess writing including dialogue, satire, character development, and theme.
Cause and Effect in Short Story Students identify causes and effects in any short story.
Memoir Rubric Assess student memoirs with a 5 point rubric.
Poetry Project Students demonstrate their knowledge of poetry by creating a scrapbook using the terms learned in class.
   


Books

Help Is Down the Hall:
A Handbook on Student Assistance		 Help students with substance abuse and emotional problems.
   

Lesson Plans and Graphic Organizers for At-Risk Students

Commas, Commas Authentic lesson on commas and basic comma rules in writing.
Basic Comma Rules For use with authentic comma lesson.
Scaffolding the Five Paragraph Essay Lesson plan for scaffolding the five paragraph essay.
Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Organizer Organizer for the scaffolded five-paragraph persuasive essay.
Step-by-step Persuasive Essay Guide

Middle level guide for creating a persuasive essay.
Double Entry Journal Graphic organizer for recording and interpreting passages while reading.
Personification

Graphic organizer for use in identifying personification.
Theme, Topic, and Moral Help students learn the difference between a topic, a moral, and a theme with this graphic organizer.
Short Story Organizer Organizer for identifying main character, setting, conflict/problem, complications, climax, and resolution in short stories.
Arguments & Counterarguments Organizer for helping students clarify arguments and counterarguments in writing.
Romeo & Juliet Quotation Transformation Organizer for helping students become familiar with the language of Shakespeare by rewriting famous quotations into modern English.
Point of View Rewrite Instructions for student activity for learning point of view by rewriting a children's story from another character's perspective.
Point of View Reflection After writing from a different point of view, students reflect on the activity.
Personification Organizer for identifying personification in poetry.
Persuasive Paragraph Graphic organizer for creating a persuasive paragraph.
   
   
   
   

Strategies & Activities for At-Risk Students

Book Buddies: A Yearlong Adventure Pairing at-risk students to improve reading skills.
Using Poetry Books to Teach Reading Skills Students collect poetry which is then used for a variety of reading skills.
Strategies to Support At-Risk Students Three strategies (Reading Pals, High School Mentors, & Teacher Mentors) which can be used to assist at-risk students.
First Day of School Connector Activity Connect with at-risk students from the first day of school.
ACT Test-taking Strategies Twelve strategies to help at-risk students succeed on ACT tests.
   
   

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Reaching Students Lesson Plan Template Lesson plan template aimed at meeting the needs of at-risk students.

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