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A Teacher's Guide to the Multigenre Research Project is pointed, clear-eyed, and convincing. It will enhance the satisfaction you take from working with teenagers. You'll be a better teacher, and your

Teacher evaluation is stressful. With mixed messages about the policies, purposes, and processes, more often than not teacher evaluations leave everyone feeling confused, anxious, and disillusioned. B

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

"We need both literacy and science skills to provide students with the knowledge and ability to cope with and understand our world today and in the future. Jennifer meets that challenge with

In Writing with Mentors, high school teachers Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell prove that the key to cultivating productive, resourceful writers-writers who can see value and purpose for writing b

"We can do better, but expectation alone is not enough. We need answers and examples like the ones Gianna and Brook provide with great insight from research and practice and great compassion

The significant challenges faced by English Language Learners (ELLs) become greater during the middle and high school years, when they must learn more abstract academic concepts with emergent English

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

"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

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

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

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

Discusses the life of the Civil Rights leader including his early life, his work with the NAACP, and his tragic murder.

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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

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

"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

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

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

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

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"The twenty-first century has brought with it considerable buzz surrounding the connections between science and literacy. Karen Worth and her colleagues have been at the center of this discussion for

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Making Believe on Paper" presents primary-grade educators with the opportunity to learn from an extraordinary classroom teacher about how and why to invite and invest in make-believe." - Nancie Atwell

Organizing and Collecting: The Number Systemis one of eight units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction (K-3) This unit begins with the sto

Formerly with Western Carolina U., Ray is an independent writer and researcher of the teaching of writing; an early childhood educator and presenter, Glover is the principal of an early childhood scho

Weaver (English, emeritus, Western Michigan University) looks at what's wrong with the way grammar has been taught traditionally, and outlines current theories, research, and principles underlying gra

The Literate Kindergarten shows how carefully balancing academics with song, movement, talk, and play creates an environment where every child can grow and learn.The Literate Kindergarten offers sugg

"With the generosity, thoughtfulness, and practicality we have come to appreciate from this extraordinary classroom teacher, Linda gives us the structures and models we need to invite every student we

With the generosity, thoughtfulness, and practicality we have come to appreciate from this extraordinary classroom teacher, Linda gives us the structures and models we need to invite every student we

"Lester and Reba not only provide us with a bold new framework for weaving read-alouds seamlessly into the fabric of the classroom, they also show us how to do it with grace and art. At the heart of t

Like earlier editions of the widely used Subject Is Writing, the Fourth edition continues the tradition of bringing first-year students into contact with provocative ideas and voices-some of them fell

The time has come to brush the dust off research-writing pedagogy and reimagine it into the twenty-first century classroom with fresh approaches that breathe life into both the papers themselves and t

Yatvin address the major questions and topics associated with differentiated instruction.

With Independent Writing, the author takes you inside her classroom and documents a full school year of writing instruction with plentiful student examples, teacher's notes, practical advice, and atte

These are among the many myths about poor and diverse families. Catherine Compton-Lilly refutes them with the best data available.

Breathe new passion into teaching writing. Teach it as an aesthetic experience. Have your students of writing start with art.Mary Ehrenworth particularly appreciates the meaning and inspiration the vi