The Prompting Guide App is now available for the ipad. Visit the app store to purchase it today! The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide 1 is a flip-chart tool that you can use to enhance your teaching
The idea that there is one "best" English is so intuitively plausible and so relentlessly inculcated in us that it is only natural to attempt to uphold this "Standard" among our students. Our error is
"This is a must-read book for any teachers of math." -Jo Boaler, Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University and author of Mathematical Mindsets Numerical fluency is about understandin
"Kids love hands-on science. Yet too few grow up to be scientists. Kids need to be reading, writing and thinking about science as well as doing it. Writing in Science in Action propels us full thr
In The Book in Question, Carol Jago issues a call to action. Reading is in crisis. Too often, too many students are choosing not to read. "There is urgency to our work," She argues. "We are living in
The idea that students should be "college and career ready" when they leave high school has become a major focus in education, but much of this conversation has been on reading readiness. What about
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
Daniel Heuser knows that lasting educational reform comes not from the reports of policymakers, but from advances in research and the experiences of classroom teachers searching for a better way to ed
Teaching English by Design has become a classic resource for preservice teachers as well as in-service teachers who consider it their go-to guide to creating lessons and units organized around key con
"Where do content and pedagogy meet? They converge in these beautifully crafted cases of teaching-richly detailed, deeply interpreted, sensitively glossed, moving effortlessly between written and
Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pi
Glover, a literacy consultant and former principal, and Berry, a teacher and literacy consultant and former literacy specialist and instructional leader, show elementary teachers how to think through,
In a compelling and manageable text, the author makes the case for giving special time and attention to voice as a means to get students involved and improve their writing.
Battista (mathematics education, Ohio State U.) explains cognition-based assessment (CBA), a framework to support teaching and enable all students to understand, make sense of, and become proficient i
The authors of this book believe that progressive educational principles can and should govern classroom practice. Writing in a style accessible to teachers and administrators, coaches, school board m
Moore (English, Purdue U.) pairs up one young adult novel and one theory in each of his chapters, introducing the basic terms and concepts of theories such as formalism, structuralism, deconstruction,
View the Independent Writing Within, Beyond and About TextsWebinarNow there are three distinct Reader's Notebooks to help students grades K through 8 become better readers through writing.New! Reader'
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.
Noden, a veteran middle school English teacher, describes an original approach to teaching grammar, called image grammar. The approach involves students studying and imitating the work of various mast
" ""We have created the lessons in these books to help teachers give their English language learners the conceptual background and English language structures they need to collaborate fully in each "T
For teachers who sometimes feel as if data-based instruction, differentiated groupings, and formative assessments somehow involve going over to The Dark Side, this book is a powerful antidote. It will
