"Just as word learning is incremental, so is learning about vocabulary instruction. Teachers need exposure to research, best-practice strategies, and fellow practitioners." -Charlene Cobb and Camille
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
Miller, a consultant, author, and professional development provider, and Moss (San Diego State U.) argue that independent reading with no instructional framework is not enough to improve children's re
Wilde (curriculum and teaching, Hunter College) explains how to increase the number and complexity of books students read throughout their 12 years in school. She describes the reasons why this is imp
Offers concise advice and ideas intended to help teachers identify problems in student writing, discover their possible causes, and provide useful tools for overcoming them.
Dobbertin, a former teacher and current professional development director and college instructor who designs Common Core State Standards units, shows teachers how to plan instruction that addresses th
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
Education consultant Hamayan joins fellow dual/second language education experts Genesee (McGill U.) and Cloud (Rhode Island College) in presenting a practical guide for teachers, school administrator
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
Schwarz (education, National Louis U.) presents practices, processes, and tools for teaching diverse learners in the inclusive classroom. Each chapter offers a tool, the rationale for using it, and su
In the four short years since publication, the first edition of The English Teacher's Companion quickly became the instructional bible for English teachers. Covering the entire English curriculum, fro
""If students used structures that more closely tracked the movement of their mind, weaving their own slaloms between the twins of knowledge and experience, readers would be more inclined to lean in a
Why is it that so many of our students don't "get "math? Why, despite all our efforts, does students' progress in mathematics lag way behind our expectations? Wendy Ward Hoffer argues that all learner
Howard, an educator, author, special education teacher, reading consultant, and literacy coach, offers a resource for teachers that outlines a process for improving their literacy teaching. She discus
This guide for teachers provides lessons and units to help students meet Common Core Standards for writing narratives such as fictional stories, autobiographies, narrative nonfiction, literary journal
Chronicles the life and career of the noted aviator, with an emphasis on how her pioneering work in aviation opened the skies to women, and discusses her mysterious disappearance.
A series that introduces middle-grade readers to some of the most fascinating people who have played a role in the history of the United States, providing information about their childhoods, families,
Presents the life of the African-American activist, describing his difficult childhood, criminal activities and imprisonment, conversion to the Nation of Islam and later break with the organization, a
A series that introduces middle-grade readers to some of the most fascinating people who have played a role in the history of the United States, providing information about their childhoods, families,
""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
This worktext outlines tools high school students can use to write mature and varied sentences and build paragraphs by imitating models by authors like John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, J.D. S
"These books will support teachers in their understanding of designing process-based instruction and give them both useful lesson plans and a process for designing instruction on their own that follow
Describes the life and career of Steve Jobs, from his early life and his development of the first Apple computer to his accomplishments with the computer company and how he has helped shape the modern
"These books will support teachers in their understanding of designing process-based instruction and give them both useful lesson plans and a process for designing instruction on their own that follow
View the Independent Writing Within, Beyond and About TextsWebinar Now there are three distinct Reader's Notebooks to help students grades K through 8 become better readers through writing.New! Reader
The techniques described here are based on a classroom project conducted between 2006 and 2009; the book includes many real-life classroom dialogues and discussions between teachers and students from
"These books will support teachers in their understanding of designing process-based instruction and give them both useful lesson plans and a process for designing instruction on their own that follow
The modeling of reasoning strategies on the open number line, the open array, and the ratio table allows students to solve problems in their own way and compare different strategies with the rest of t
Written in an accessible style, this work gives guidelines for curriculum planning and program design for teaching English language learners (ELLs). A distinguishing feature of the book is that it fra
Middle schoolers can be the masters of disengagement. Recognizing that all students, adept and struggling writers alike, lose steam at times and need a revitalizing jump start, Christopher Lehman offe
Introduces readers to the Mandarin dialect of Chinese, with information about where it is spoken, who speaks it, and what script it uses, as well as lessons of basic Mandarin phrases.
Discusses the role of London in the Olympic movement, preparations for the games to be held there in 2012, Olympic sports, venues for the London games, athletes, the Paralympics that will take place s
"These essays seek to understand how institutions set boundaries between professionals and ordinary people, how ideologies organize expert and lay knowledge into cognitive and cultural hierarchies, an
Bomer, director of the Heart of Texas Writing Project and professor of pre-service English teachers at the University of Texas, provides ideas for preparing students to participate in a globalized, di
This book for in-service teachers presents readings, activities, and discussion prompts for teaching middle and high school students how to write strong arguments and evaluate the arguments of others,
With this book, the authors support content-area and language arts teachers alike by pairing more than 75 short, kid-tested reproducible nonfiction texts with 33 simple, ready-to-go lessons that deepe
""As teachers today, everything we teach has to be turbo-charged with skills and the promise of advancing our students academically. Here's the cool thing: poetry can get you there. It is inherently t
Have you ever zoned out during reading--pronounced the words without processing their meaning? This is how "word callers" experience all reading. In fact, strong decoders with limited comprehension ac
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
Pathways to Early Literacy Series - Discoveries in Writing and ReadingThis book is one in a series of three written for parents, caregivers, early childhood teachers, and teachers of children in their
