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Resources

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.
Tips for New Teachers	Every new teacher should know these.

Alternative Assessment

ACT Prompt Writing Rubric	8-12 Language Arts	Quickly assess student writing in response to ACT-like prompts. Improve ACT writing scores with practice.
Children's Story Rubric	6-12 Language Arts	Assess creative writing skills such as setting, theme, conflict, character development, and point of view.
Fairy Tale Rubric	8-12 Language Arts	Rubric to assess writing including dialogue, satire, character development, and theme.
Cause and Effect in Short Story	6-12 Language Arts	Students identify causes and effects in any short story.
Memoir Rubric	6-12 Language Arts	Assess student memoirs with a 5 point rubric.
Poetry Project	K-5 Language Arts	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	6-12 Language Arts	Authentic lesson on commas and basic comma rules in writing.
Basic Comma Rules	5-12 Language Arts	For use with authentic comma lesson.
Scaffolding the Five Paragraph Essay	6-12 Language Arts	Lesson plan for scaffolding the five paragraph essay.
Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Organizer	6-12 Language Arts	Organizer for the scaffolded five-paragraph persuasive essay.
Step-by-step Persuasive Essay Guide	6-12 Language Arts	Middle level guide for creating a persuasive essay.
Double Entry Journal	6-12 Language Arts	Graphic organizer for recording and interpreting passages while reading.
Personification	6-12 Language Arts	Graphic organizer for use in identifying personification.
Theme, Topic, and Moral	6-12 Language Arts	Help students learn the difference between a topic, a moral, and a theme with this graphic organizer.
Short Story Organizer	6-12 Language Arts	Organizer for identifying main character, setting, conflict/problem, complications, climax, and resolution in short stories.
Arguments & Counterarguments	9-12 Language Arts	Organizer for helping students clarify arguments and counterarguments in writing.
Romeo & Juliet Quotation Transformation	6-12 Language Arts	Organizer for helping students become familiar with the language of Shakespeare by rewriting famous quotations into modern English.
Point of View Rewrite	3-12 Language Arts	Instructions for student activity for learning point of view by rewriting a children's story from another character's perspective.
Point of View Reflection	3-12 Language Arts	After writing from a different point of view, students reflect on the activity.
Poetry or Prose	6-12 Language Arts	Questions to guide an examination of the similarities and differences between poetry and prose and help students determine what makes poetry, poetry.
Persuasive Paragraph	3-12 Language Arts	Graphic organizer for creating a persuasive paragraph.
Paragraph Organizer	3-9 Language Arts	Graphic organizer for creating any type of paragraph.
Economic Systems of Russia and Northern Eurasia	6-12 Social Studies	Comparison organizer of Russia and Northern Asia's Economic Systems.
Southwest Asia - Oil	6-12 Social Studies	Questions to guide an examination of oil in the Middle East region and interaction with the U.S.
Religions in Southwest Asia	6-12 Social Studies	Students compare the origins, beliefs and practices and interactions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Southwest Asia in this graphic organizer.
Evaluating Opinions in Multiple Sources	6-12 Social Studies	Organizer for comparing opinions in 2 different sources and concluding with student opinion of the topic.
Comparing European Countries	6-12 Social Studies	Compare facts about the European Union as a whole to the countries in Europe including form of government, GDP, language, economic systems, and others in this graphic organizer.

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.

Lesson Plan Templates

Submit A Lesson Plan	Submit your lessons for at-risk students. With approval, they may appear on our web site! Email lesson plans to info@success4teachers
Reaching Students Lesson Plan Template	Lesson plan template aimed at meeting the needs of at-risk students.

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