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Children enter school filled with all kinds of ideas about numbers, shapes, measuring tools, time, and money--ideas formed from the expressions they hear ... the things they see on television ... the

Presents an approach to teaching evolution to secondary school students, offering an overview of inquiry-based science teaching, outlines for lesson plans, and a variety of Internet resources.

For all things In The Middle-including chapter-by-chapter sneak previews, blog posts from Nancie, videos of Nancie, and more-visit Heinemann.com/InTheMiddle "The third edition of In the Middle is my

"As we work within the Common Core, we must take care to not lose sight of meaningful teaching and learning. In working toward the new standards, kids are going to be doing hard things. But children c

To write cohesively means doing many things at oncewrestling with ideas, balancing form and function, pushing words this way and that, attending to syntax and diction, and employing imagery and metaph

"Argument" is perhaps one of the most misunderstood terms in higher education, meaning different things in different disciplines. Yet on one thing most educators agree: it is almost impossible to atta

"When we're true to children's developmental needs and know which books to put in their hands, good things fall into place. The key to focus on the children and the practices we know help them to read

"When we're true to children's developmental needs and know which books to put in their hands, good things fall into place. The key is to focus on the children and the practices we know help them to r

"When we're true to children's developmental needs and know which books to put in their hands, good things fall into place. The key is to focus on the children and the practices we know help them to r

Topics such as race, gender, politics, religion, and sexuality are part of our students' lives, yet when these subjects are brought up at school teachers often struggle with how to respond. How do we

Every child is a cultural being with a unique history and rich cultural practices; a member of communities in and outside of school. Yet too many children spend their days inside classrooms where they

"This book is a place to start creating the classroom of your dreams from the very first minute of school, a classroom that is research based, child centered, and in step with the world today." - Chri

As a principal, your days are filled with decisions. How do you keep student learning central to your work and the school's mission while managing all of the mandates and administrative work? With Rec

Teaching mathematics to a range of learners has always been challenging. With the widespread use of inclusion and RTI, having a variety of effective teaching options for students who struggle is more

"What Are the Rest of My Kids Doing?" In her work with teachers around the country, Lindsey Moses hears this common frustration among those who work with our youngest readers: "During reading worksho

Coming August 2016! Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last 20 years, but no literacy leaders have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay

How can a secondary teacher reconcile the heavy demands of the content curriculum with best practices while enhancing students' literacy skills in the content areas?Core Instructional Routines helps y

We all use math to analyze everyday situations we encounter. Whether we realize it or not, we're modeling with mathematics: taking a complex situation and figuring out what we need to make sense of it

With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselve

"You can do this!You can help kids fall in love with reading.You can fill your classroom with piles of amazing books kids will be itching to get their hands on.You can find stretches of time

Nationally recognized mathematics educator and author Art Hyde takes a culminating look at his thirty years of experience working with teachers and students to answer the question: In the Common Core

The bestselling Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning helped tens of thousands of mainstream elementary teachers ensure that their ELL learners became full members of the school community with the language and content skills they needed for success. In the highly anticipated Second Edition, Pauline Gibbons updates her classic text with a multitude of practical ideas for the classroom, supported by the latest research in the field of ESL.With clear directions and classroom tested strategies for supporting students' academic progress, Gibbons shows how the teaching of language can be integrated seamlessly with the teaching of content, and how academic achievement can be boosted without sacrificing our own vision of education to the dictates of knee-jerk accountability. Rich examples of classroom discourse illustrate exactly how the scaffolding process works, while activities to facilitate conversation and higher-level thinking put the latest research on second language learning into

Problems with the charts in your math kit? Want to discover the science of content-area charts? Wish you could make pre-fab social studies charts history? Then you're ready for Smarter Charts for Mat

In this highly readable and provocative book, Thomas Newkirk explodes the long standing habit of opposing abstract argument with telling stories. Newkirk convincingly shows that effective argument is

"Class stories are valuable, free resources for integrating curriculum, aligning your teaching with standards, and meeting the needs of your particular students." -Connie Dierking and Sherra Jones Wr

Save 15% when you buy 15 copies with the Subjects Matter, Second Edition book study bundle. "To help every kid fall in love with at least one field of knowledge, our students must encounter our field

Buy 15 copies and save 15% with the Literacy Teacher's Playbook, K-2 book study bundle! "Instead of glancing quickly and drawing a single conclusion, we can lean in and look with the same spirit of cu

Save 15% with our Book Study Bundle! Watch out a one-minute preview of Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School. "There are steps teachers and administrators can take-tweaks, if you will-that

Ray, a former secondary math teacher and professional collaboration facilitator at an online math community associated with Drexel U., draws on the collected knowledge of the community to describe how

Romano (teacher education, Miami University) offers many ideas on using multigenre papers, which combine research and creativity, in college writing courses. He begins with a definition of multigenre

Laman (instruction and teacher education, U. of South Carolina) enumerates writing tools and strategies that educators can use with English language learners in a workshop format that incorporates the

Wilhelm et al., who help students use literacy to become active citizens, show educators how to teach the composition and reading of various types of informational texts (one of the three major types

""Nonfiction writing does not need to sound like an encyclopedia. It can be richly constructed with a wide variety of sentence patterns. Craft elements and literary devices should be highlighted and e

Focusing on addition and subtraction in this volume of the series, Battista (mathematics education, Ohio State U.) details the cognition-based assessment (CBA) framework, which can be used with any cu

Viewing language as a human social phenomenon tied to history and culture and a tool for connecting with people in speech and writing, Wilde (curriculum and teaching, Hunter College, City U. of New Yo

This book is one of six in a series of instructional guides for teachers who teach writing to middle school and high school students. It is intended to help those teachers by providing them with a str

Keene, an author who has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, and adjunct professor of reading and writing, provides K-8 teachers with a guide to modifying oral communication with children to he

Barnhouse, a literacy consultant for elementary through high school, and Vinton, a literacy consultant who works in public schools, consider how students make meaning of texts. They begin with chapter

"Wow, wow, and wow! At the time when we most need it, with the advent of the Common Core State Standards and in the midst of a documented crisis in adolescent literacy, here come Deborah Appleman and

"Every classroom has readers who struggle with texts. Whatever their challenges, it is our job as teachers to help them negotiate the texts of their world." -Linda Hoyt Classroom-ready solutions to su