There are plenty of books on spelling instruction for teachers, but what about parents who want to play a more active role in their children's education? In this book Richard Gentry offers timely and
An admirable chronicle sharing the experiences of young scholars conducting historical field research in Africa. The ten papers field academic questions of methodology and relevancy, but are most int
In Responding to Young Adult Literature, Virginia Monseau uncovers the power of young adult literature to evoke the kind of literary experiences that will keep students reading and lead them to a deep
Goodman makes the highly complex process of reading easy to understand. He involves his readers in examining their own reading, and he provides real language examples from real children reading real
Here is a personal and compassionate book for everyone - writers, poets, teachers, lovers of life, and especially those seeking to find their writing voices again or for the first time.
Good writing takes passion. That passion may be purely intellectual or it may be driven by strong emotion. From this stance, from the necessity of writing what matters in his life, Tom Romano's new bo
Walking Trees is the dramatic story of how Ralph Fletcher survived the wrenching highs and lows of a year teaching public school teachers how to teach writing to their students. The characters - prin
Recognizing the process-oriented nature of alternative assessment, the authors contend that the more we do alternative assessment, the more we learn about it.
The author describes how her sixth-grade students prepare portfolios of their work and present them at parent-teacher conferences, thereby assuming responsibility for their own learning
Paper Edition. The Art of Teaching Writing, New Edition, has major new chapters on assessment, thematic studies, writing throughout the day, reading/writing relationships, publication, curriculum dev
Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals. Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapte
As Joan Countryman demonstrates in this book, the use of journals, learning logs, letters, autobiographies, investigations, and formal papers can dramatically improve the reasoning abilities of stude
Seeking Diversity is the result of watching, listening to, and learning from adolescents. It is also about a teacher, a learner engaged in the process of coming to know herself as a reader and writer
This evocative book tells of the lives and experiences of 22 black South African women - all born in the 1900s - from one small town in the Western Transvaal. The women seem both ordinary and remarkab
Calkins has woven insights, practical suggestions, references, and anecdotes into this inspirational story of a community of educators who have pushed back the frontiers of what we know about teachin
Myron Echenberg traces the social history of a large and diverse group of West Africans who served in Senegalese regiments of the French colonial army.
Dr. Clays examines a child's first attempts to write. By tracing patterns of development in actual examples of children's work, she gives invaluable insights for those in a position to assist the lea
In A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences, Carl Anderson explains the underlying principles and reasons for conferring with students, and how to make writing conferences a part of your daily routine
As teachers, how do you meet the needs of all your students while also meeting the demands of the curriculum? With over two decades of experience in the classroom as a teacher, staff developer, and n
Introduces readers to the Polish language, with information about where it is spoken, who speaks it, and what alphabet it uses, as well as lessons of basic Polish phrases.
When young children have been deprived of literacy-building experiences, is it fair for them to start school being taught the same way as those with a rich reading and writing background?No, it's NOT
Now you can foster an appreciation of the world's diverse cultures and environments at the same time that you teach science and social studies. With The World's Best Places, Mike Graf offers an intrig
This book represents the first serious attempt by an educator to combine the practice of teaching English with fundamental principles of Zen in an effort to help teachers achieve a new perspective on
As we enter the second decade of Reading Recovery, we have behind us the success of over 200,000 independent readers and writers previously diagnosed as "at risk." But with more than 2,500 sites and 1
The Creative Classroom provides teachers in grades PreK-6 with a number of creative drama strategies for use in the classroom, on a daily basis and across the curriculum.
Ink & Ideas is a lifetime in the making. Tanny McGregor has been thinking with a pen in her hand, putting words and pictures together for as long as she's been reading. Sketchnoting, also known as vis
What happens when a bestselling nonfiction children's book author pairs up with a nationally known writing teacher to discuss revision strategies? Magic. Sneed B. Collard III and Vicki Spandel blo
When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works is a comprehensive resource on struggling readers. It's filled with specific teaching ideas for helping children in kindergarten through Grade 3 who are havi
Biks and Gutches is an easy-to-administer-and-score task. It looks too simple to be very useful but with it we can easily predict which young children need extra help with learning English. Giving thi
Based on her work over the last decade with more than 100 schools and visits to more than 5000 classrooms, Barbara Taylor shares her School Change in Reading (SCR) reform model in Catching Schools." A
Now available in Spanish, these "Concepts About Print" tests can be used with the new entrant or nonreader, enabling the child to point to certain features as the examiner reads the book.
The Children You Teach is a book of stories about students and teachers. But it is also a book about children's development. Each chapter tells the true story of a child or teacher facing a dilemma. W
