Grades K - 2
As teachers everywhere find more and more students with limited English in their classes, they are asking: “How can I include ELL students in every aspect of the day?”

In “The Words Came Down!,” Emelie Parker and Tess Pardini detail a workshop format for reading, writing and content-area studies that allows teachers to differentiate instruction to include all students, and affords students ample opportunities to collaborate with others. The authors show that when children's attempts at communicating are accepted and celebrated, they will learn to communicate with each other comfortably and spontaneously whether on the playground or working on a science experiment.

 

Published Date: September 1, 2009

Grades K - 12

A useful reference, 12 Sides to Your Story uses student writing exemplars to illustrate desirable features as it challenges students to note use of these strategies in published stories. This book features twelve classroom-tested strategies that add value to story writing and helps students relate strategies to items in assessment rubrics as well as to write effective stories under test conditions. Students and teachers will appreciate the specific practical strategies to transform ordinary narrative writing into extraordinary narrative writing.

 

Grades K - 12

Organized around common classroom challenges, 3-Minute Motivators offers a wide variety of ready-to-use activities that turn potential problems into opportunities, and get students out of a rut and into a more productive mode....

 

Grades K-12

To teach with excellence demands more than strategies and techniques. The most successful teachers draw on their personal power—their confidence, compassion, and empathy, and their professional power—their ability to lead, instruct, and inspire their students to do their best. With practice, most teachers can develop the skills they need to conquer almost any classroom challenge. This book offers specific, practical ideas to help teachers.

 

Grades 3-6
In A Day of Words, fifth-grade teacher Max Brand demonstrates how he helps students search for, study, and celebrate words. Taped over the course of one day, we see distinct word instruction segments that Max has planned, along with many spontaneous teaching moments that occur for word work. Students learn more than just spelling skills or vocabulary knowledge; they become more naturally accomplished in their understanding and use of words in all contexts.

 

Grades 3-6
In A Day of Words, fifth-grade teacher Max Brand demonstrates how he helps students search for, study, and celebrate words. Taped over the course of one day, we see distinct word instruction segments that Max has planned, along with many spontaneous teaching moments that occur for word work. Students learn more than just spelling skills or vocabulary knowledge; they become more naturally accomplished in their understanding and use of words in all contexts.

 

Grades K-12
How do we read a poem? What can we teach from a poem we love? How can we name what poets do in order to inform our writing, our teaching? Nick Flynn and Shirley McPhillips have often encountered these and similar questions. This book invites preservice and inservice teachers, staff developers—anyone who wants to make a lasting place for poetry in their own and their students' lives—into many of these same primary through middle school classrooms for an up-close look at several thoughtful, rigorous poetry inquiries.

 

In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create "a landscape of wonder," a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged.
 

Published Date: September 14, 2009
Grades K - 5

Too often, new teachers enter the profession excited to make a difference in the lives of children only to find themselves disillusioned and overwhelmed with the expectations of the classroom. In A Sense of Belonging, Jennifer Allen shares her stories and journey in creating an infrastructure of support for new teachers within her school district.

In his book, Greater Expectations, Robin Turner, a high school English teacher in Anaheim, California, describes how he helps prepare the underrepresented -- predominantly Latino and African-American -- students in his class for the literacy challenges of higher education. In addition to sound literacy strategies Robin draws on principles from the Puente Project, creating personal and cultural connections that help students become more engaged and invested their work.

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