Implement balanced literacy in middle school classrooms! This comprehensive set includes everything that teachers need to transition towards a balanced literacy framework. The fifteen titles featured in this set include a wide range of informational texts covering math, science, and social studies topics. The high-interest content will engage students in learning as they develop their literacy skills. This set includes five copies of each of the fifteen titles, and one copy of Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy. The invaluable classroom resource includes easy-to-implement strategies to nurture reading and writing skills through Shared/Guided/Independent Reading and Writing activities. It also provides in-depth lessons plans that take away the guesswork out of what is needed to implement the Balanced Literacy approach. Titles in this set include: Investigating Storms; Investigating Landforms; Inside the World of Matter; Investigating Forces and Motion; All About Mitosis and Meiosis; Inside Ecosystems and Biomes; Famous Immigrants; Civil Rights Movement; Barack Obama; On the Road; How Do They Make That?; Sea Creatures; A Sense of Art; Hurricane Hunters; Hillary Clinton: Shattering the Glass Ceiling.