Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program

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Grades 6-8, Student Workbooks, Interviews, Biographies, and Speeches (Set of 5)

By Tamra Stambaugh and Joyce VanTassel-Baska

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Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program is an educational series designed to support advanced students in grades 6-8 by integrating reading comprehension with social-emotional learning. Using a scaffolded, inquiry-based approach, it features student workbooks that include high-interest texts such as short stories, poetry, biographies, and media. Through skill ladders, students progress from lower to higher-level skills in self-awareness, metacognition, and goal setting, applying lessons from texts to their own experiences.
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Ideal for educators and advanced students in middle school (grades 6-8) seeking to enhance reading comprehension alongside social-emotional development.

Corresponding to the activities in Affective Jacob's Ladder, Grades 6-8, students read high-interest passages, then complete skill ladders connected to the interview, biography, and speech readings and activities to move them from lower to higher level skills of self-awareness, metacognition, and goal setting.

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The Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program uses a models approach to scaffold student learning and promote inquiry-based discussions of texts. This series of Jacob's Ladder focuses specifically on supporting advanced students' social-emotional needs through the discussion of reading selections in the following genres: short stories and media, poetry, and biographies.

Each set of student workbooks includes five student booklets, divided by grade level and area of emphasis. Corresponding to the activities in Affective Jacob's Ladder, Grades 6-8, students read high-interest passages, then complete skill ladders connected to the picture book, short story, and media readings and activities to move them from lower to higher level skills of self-awareness, metacognition, and goal setting.

The ladders include multiple skills necessary for success and integrate reading comprehension and analysis skills with affective and social-emotional needs. Students are asked to apply themes, character or real-life experiences, and lessons from texts to their own lives.

Grades 6-8

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781618219572

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Prufrock Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 607g

Pages: 48

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Joyce VanTassel-Baska Non-Fiction Tamra Stambaugh

About the Author

Dr. Tamra Stambaugh is the Director of Programs for Talented Youth at Vanderbilt University. She is the coauthor (with Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska) of Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners, Overlooked Gems: A National Perspective on Low-Income Promising Students, and the Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program.

Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor Emerita of Education and former Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary in Virginia, where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She also initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University.