Anyone working with "at-risk" students will find here a reflection of their own experiences, plus thoughtful and creative strategies for making those experiences positive ones.
Practical instructional ideas, lessons, and differentiation strategies to support English learners in diverse classroom settingsWith classrooms that are more diverse than ever before, how can we suppo
The bestselling first edition of Children's Mathematics helped hundreds of thousands of teachers understand children's intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children learn mat
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
Focusing on the leadership aspects of improving mathematics programs, Leinwand, a research analyst in mathematics education and research at the American Institutes for Research, provides principals, t
Comprehension Through Conversation is a practical guide to comprehension, conversation, and collaboration. Maria Nichols invites you to listen in on reading workshops where purposeful book talk leads
If you are an elementary teacher who struggles with struggling readers, Curt Dudley-Marling and Patricia Paugh provide you with quick, effective answers to your toughest questions.
Based on over five years of research in Nambia, Finland, and Germany, McKittrick's book is a tour de force demonstration of African social history at its best.
Organized around eleven fundamental choices that all secondary schools must make, this book serves as a checklist, an agenda, and a study guide for high school reform.
Two experienced writers provide practical and heartening advice on writing succinct, evocative prose based on personal experience. Geared towards the classroom, but perfectly suitable for self-study.
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
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
This book, the first to focus exclusively on portfolio assessment, is practical, theoretical, and broad in scope, offering places to start rather than claiming to be definitive.
Argumentation leads to deeper understanding Many students' interest in mathematics fades as they are asked to solve seemingly endless disconnected problems. Despina Stylianou and Maria Blanton show ho
The Freeman's bestselling ESL Teaching: Principles for Success has long been a cornerstone text for research-based second language teaching methods and practices. The completely updated edition builds
From her lifelong study of children's development and learning, Marie Clay traces children's paths of progress in literacy learning. Acclaimed a classic since its first publication,Becoming Literate:
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
Provides information about the Arab-Israeli conflict, including which leaders were involved, how the wars have affected the world, and why the wars have lasted for so long.
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.
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
"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
Don and Jenny Killgallon's sentence-composing approach has transformed how writing is taught in thousands of language arts classes, helping students all across America become more proficient, sophisti
Detailing techniques for conducting research in the classroom, this textbook describes interviewing, note-taking, the categorization of data, and other skills in the context of research strategies. Hu
Presents a series of propositions set forth by the National Board for Professional Teaching, including issues of commitment to teaching, knowledge of subjects taught, and responsibility for monitoring
In 1978, Yetta Goodman (education, U. of Arizona) coined the term "kidwatching" to describe how teachers observe and record children's literary development. In this guide for preschool, kindergarten,
Writing to Deadline takes the reader into the mind of the nonfiction writer, demystifying the process by which journalists clarify confusion and present significant information under demanding restri
Why are reading conferences so important? What do effective reading conferences look and sound like? How do I fit reading conferences into my literacy block? "Conferring," writes Jennifer Serravallo,
"Rather than being a barrier to those who 'can't,' the practices actually provide opportunity for all students to engage successfully with mathematics." -Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta, and Susan Jansse
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
""Students need elbow room to make decisions about what to write, revise, and publish. Adolescents crave responsibility. This handbook supports students by showing them how to assume greater responsib
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
Book study groups and professional learning communities, save when you order the Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners Book Study Bundle. 15 copies for $318.75. SAVE $56.25! Teaching Engl
In every mathematics classroom, the need for differentiated instruction is present: in many it's acute. Students learn at different rates, in different ways, with different successes and different cha
"That the emotional realities of teaching have changed significantly over the past decade is undeniable; "Doing Emotion" provides much needed guidance both on understanding these changes and on imagin
If your classroom has English Language Learners (ELLs), and whose doesn't, you've probably wondered whether the literacy methods you've used successfully with English speakers can work for nonnative s
When your classroom hums with the activity of twenty-five students, each diligently pursuing their own line of inquiry, real learning happens. Independent research increases student motivation and is
Unfair mythologies about English language learners have sprung up in schools around the country. Unsure how to help nonnative speakers write, some teachers and administrators have resorted to deficit-
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
Weiss explores the dynamic relation of specific local, regional, and global understandings of value as manifested in the coffee of rural Haya communities. His investigation offers critical insight int
Offering inspiration for student writers, Schuster's nontraditional text divides grammar's rules into bedrock basics and breakable myths commonly taught in English classes but ignored by many of the b
