Book study groups and professional learning communities, click here to save when you order 15 copies of A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Writers. A $270 value for $229.50. Save $40.50. "Creat
"This book is one of the few that focuses on oral language development, a crucial but often overlooked component of academic development for ELLs." "It helps fill a gap in the professional resources t
From the age of 25, when she first travelled beyond New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States, Marie Clay worked to establish international connections, while keeping her base in her
Special PLC discount when you buy 15 copies of English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking. A $352 value for $282."For educators individually and collectively who aspire to implement a curriculu
A book of cool problems for middle school mathematics classrooms-does it get any better? Yes, it does. Art Hyde and his colleagues go far beyond providing a collection of problems. They address big id
Discusses the ways in which people are different; how people perform such activities as playing, reading, and learning in different ways; and the importance of respecting other people's differences.
"You are about to immerse yourself in a gorgeously readable and engaging account of how teachers can move science instruction from "hands on to minds on." Wendy Ward Hoffer describes how teachers can
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Raising students' math achievement doesn't mean ripping up your planning book and starting over. In "Accessible Mathematics "Steven Leinwand (author of "Sensible Mathematics") shows how small shifts i
Chantal and Elisa show us the teaching and learning of conventions as part of a personal and collective striving toward proficiency, power, and independence. They help us conceive the daily work of le
"Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones "is my new favorite book about how to live as a teacher. Finishing it, I experienced what I can only describe as a state of grace-moved, renewed, and gr
2010 James N. Britton Award winner from the Conference on English Education (CEE) of the National Council of Teachers of English. This work is an important contribution to the field of writing instruc
Freeman and Freeman (both: education, U. of Texas at Brownsville) use current research and data to provide a methodology to teach older English language learners academic language for content-area tex
"I love this book for all it teaches us about persuasive writing and for how it strengthens our understanding of this expansive genre.... Having read it, I am wiser about teaching - and writing - pers
Why aren't there more good poems for use in shared reading? Poems that address key curricular goals while making the most of young children's love of rhythm and rhyme? Now, thanks to Zoe Ryder White,
Differentiating in Algebra, PreK-Grade 2 applies Jennifer Taylor-Cox's easy but effective differentiation strategies to the algebra content standard. Taking the foundational elements of differentiatio
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"Dan has made it his business to delve into punctuation, and we are all the wiser for the impressive and exciting writing about the subject that he has done in this book." - Carl Anderson Author of "H
"What it means to read and write has changed, making this an exhilarating and daunting time to be an English teacher. As teachers, Robert Rozema and Allen Webb understand this and offer a vision of ho
Rather than advocating strict tracks and rubrics that challenge even those who love to create tightly controlled herds, Opitz (reading, U. of Northern Colorado) and Ford (reading, U. of Wisconsin Oshk
This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching for
Algebra in the Elementary Classroom" provides the support we need as teachers to embed the development of students' algebraic thinking in the teaching of elementary school. " - Megan Loef Franke Coaut
"Games for Early Number Sense "is one of three yearlong resource guides in "Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction" (K - 3) "Games for Early Number Se
Minilessons for Early Addition and Subtraction is one of three yearlong resource guides in Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction (K - 3) Minilessons
In The Big Dinner the preparation of a turkey dinner introduces early multiplication strategies and supports automatizing the facts, using the ratio table, and developing the distributive property wit
"The Double Decker Bus: Early Addition and Subtraction"is one of eight units in the "Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction" (K-3) This unit begins wi
Best Buys, Ratios, and Rates: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions is one of five units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (4 - 6) The focus of
Exploring Parks and Playgrounds: Multiplication and Division of Fractions is one of five units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (4 - 6) The fo
Beads and Shoes, Making Twos: Extending Number Sense is one of eight units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction (K - 3) This unit begins wit
Groceries, Stamps, nd Measuring Strips: Early Multiplication is one of five units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Multiplication and Division (3 - 5) The focus of this unit is
How can students find--or make--spaces where their ideas and arguments can be heard? Welch (English, University of Vermont) takes up this question in an age defined not only by YouTube and MySpace, bu
"This is a work of incredible scope: adventurous, ingratiating, challenging, genuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession." -Harvey Daniels Author of S
Language and communication are important to mathematics just as they are to the other content areas. "Mathematical Literacy "is a powerful resource that introduces you to a wide spectrum of strategies
Fostering deeper, more critical thinking, offering a place to process content and new ideas, and reinforcing the importance of students' own thoughts are just some of the many important reasons to im
"A must-have for every elementary science teacher striving to be highly effective and for every support person addressing the needs of science teachers." - Linda Froschauer NSTA President 2006 - 2007
Rereading Fluency" is an important and timely book.... The authors do not just criticize current policies and practices but offer alternatives for improving the quality of reading assessment and instr
Parsons, a teacher consultant and author of First Grade Writers, presents five specific units of study designed to help second graders develop a keener sense of what they can accomplish in their writi
