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3-MINUTE MOTIVATORS: More than 100 simple ways to reach, teach, and achieve more than ever imagined More than just busy work, these short, playful activities will help frazzled teachers to refocus a group, release excess energy, or start class with a bang! Organized around common classroom challenges, the book offers a wide variety of activities that turn potential problems into opportunities, from relaxing activities to stimulate the imagination to lively motivators and activities that mix talk with action to getting involved and working together towards a common goal. Ideal for both new and experienced teachers, this handy guide promotes active classroom learning that involves competition, cooperation, and opportunities to focus on real learning. Available Now! Author: Kathy Paterson Pages: 96 ISBN: 9781551382159 Price: $ 24.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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55 TEACHING DILEMMAS: Ten powerful solutions to almost any classroom challenge With practice, any teacher can develop the skills they need to conquer almost any classroom challenge. This essential resource offers a host of "top ten" lists of practical ideas to help teachers:
Author: Kathy Paterson Pages: 96 ISBN: 9781551381916 Price: $ 21.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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99 ACTIVITIES & GREETINGS: Great for Morning Meeting ... and other meetings, too! This lively resource offers activities, chants, greetings, and games that will excite and enliven any classroom. The perfect entry to the Morning Meeting, each activity details a suggested grade level, the academic and social skills practiced, and the materials needed, and includes concise, easy-to-follow directions. In using these activities, students will develop oral language skills, self-control, and problem-solving abilities. While having fun, they™ll practice risk-taking, reading, math, and cooperation, all the time forging strong relationship bonds and building their classroom community. The book includes activities for all times of year. Author: Melissa Correa-Connolly Pages: 152 ISBN: 9781892989208 Price: $ 28.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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ADMINISTRATORS SUPPORTING SCHOOL CHANGE Administrators learn the importance of having a vision and philosophy for their school, as well as practical tips on how to make use of time and maintain a positive relationship with parents, students, and teachers. A gifted principal shares his goals and strategies with conviction and humor. Author: Robert Wortman Pages: 80 ISBN: 9781571100474 Price: $ 24.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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ADVENTURES IN GRAPHICA: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, 2-6 Learn how to use graphic texts to motivate and engage some of your most reluctant readers who often shun traditional texts. This book uses comics and graphic novels to teach comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency by exploring how skills for reading visual information can be transferred to text. The book shows teachers how to hook students onto reading using graphic novels across the content areas. Sample graphic books and student work complement this book. Author: Terry Thompson Pages: 200 ISBN: 9781571107121 Price: $ 22.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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ALL CHILDREN ARE SPECIAL: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Practical information and strategies for creating inclusive classrooms that value and nurture all learners. The book looks at all aspects of inclusion and outlines simple ways to plan for special needs learners. Photocopiable records, information sheets, and more are included for easy and immediate teacher use. Author: Greg Lang and Chris Berberich Pages: 152 ISBN: 9781571100177 Price: $ 31.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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APPRENTICESHIP IN LITERACY: Transitions Across Reading & Writing This easy-to-read guide shows K teachers how to provide classroom demonstrations, engage children, monitor understanding, provide timely support, and ultimately help the child gain independence. Drawing on authentic classroom examples — student writing samples, class schedules, photographs, and rich transcriptions of teaching and learning interactions — the book offers a wealth of in-depth information, specific strategies, and organization formats. The book deals with all areas of emerging literacy, including how school-based professional literacy teams can support the development of literacy programs. Author: Linda J. Dorn and Cathy French Pages: 192 ISBN: 9781571100887 Price: $ 32.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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ARE THEY REALLY READING? Epanding SSR in the Middle Grades All to often poorer readers have learned that if they keep quiet during silent reading, they are doing okay — no reading required. This book will show middle grade teachers how to ensure students use this time wisely. With practical lessons and interesting anecdotes from real classrooms, the book expands the traditional concept of SSR to include read alouds, writing, and accountability. If you don`t have a SSR program, or worry that some of your students are being left behind, this book will give you a road map that is instructional, sound and flexible enough for any student situation. Author: Jodi Crum Marshall Pages: 184 ISBN: 9781571103376 Price: $ 25.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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ARTS GO TO SCHOOL Thoughtful and timely, this unique collection features chapters on each of the major art forms: music, visual arts, drama, dance, and all forms of modern media. Rooted in authentic experiences, the book gives a glimpse into real, exemplary classrooms where the arts are used to bring learning to life. Checklists throughout the book provide handy reminders to key outcomes, and guide teachers in encouragement and assessment. Author: David Booth and Masayuki Hachiya Pages: 160 ISBN: 9781551381756 Price: $ 24.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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ASK MS. CLASS Ask Ms. Class is the ultimate advice book, for Ms. Class knows that teachers don`t want field trip frenzy, merit pay, vouchers, time-on-task slips, vowel extra-strength formulas, or scope and sequence free agency clauses. Teachers want to be heard. Think about it: When was the last time someone listened to you? Someone who understands you and why you chose teaching for a profession? Someone who likes hearing from teachers? If you need a laugh or a good cry, ask Ms. Class. She listens, and she answers. Author: Susan Ohanian Pages: 232 ISBN: 9781551380641 Price: $ 26.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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ASKING BETTER QUESTIONS, 2nd Edition Learn a host of inventive new ways to encourage students to become more effective learners by posing more thoughtful questions. Based on extensive classroom experience, this comprehensive guide helps teachers understand why questions are so important to teaching and learning; promotes a simple, three-part classification of questions; offers models, techniques, and activities to promote better questioning; and much, much more. The book recognizes that both thought and emotion are essential components of a classroom that respects and encourages questions. It is committed to helping teachers ask the right question at the right moment, within the give and take of classroom talk and activity. Author: Norah Morgan & Juliana Saxton Pages: 160 ISBN: 9781551382098 Price: $ 24.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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ASSESSMENT: CONTINUOUS LEARNING Development checklists, student interview suggestions, guidelines for using portfolios, rubrics, and self-evaluation profiles are some of the teacher-developed kidwatching and assessment forms in this comprehensive resource. The book deals with all aspects of assessment — monitoring, observing, interacting, analyzing, and reporting. The valuable tools in this book will help you design instruction models and create curriculum opportunities that will stretch student knowledge and expand their learning worlds. (K) Author: Lois Bridges Pages: 112 ISBN: 9781571100481 Price: $ 24.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT: Designing Performance-Based Tasks This timely resource explores common language arts expectations and shows teachers how to create activities that students will find relevant and that will guide them towards achieving important learning outcomes. Organized around three themes — making connections with literature, exploring concepts of community, and studying persuasive media techniques — the performance tasks are designed to appeal to students. This practical approach to all facets of designing meaningful activities includes suggestions for planning through evaluating and generating a mark. Includes ready-to-copy planning sheets, rubrics, and student surveys. Author: Katherine Luongo-Orlando Pages: 128 ISBN: 9781551381527 Price: $ 18.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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AUTHOR`S PROFILE: Assessing Writing in Context The step-by-step tools in this valuable resource help teachers assess narrative and expository writing and pinpoint problem areas. The book offers specific guidance on the mechanics of sentence structure, paragraphs, voice, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. It also looks at the structure of students writing with clear explanations, sample writing models, and case studies. Reproducible forms, rubrics, and checklists help students see their achievement and what they need to do to reach the next level. Author: Teri Beaver Pages: 176 ISBN: 9781571100597 Price: $ 26.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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BALANCING READING AND LANGUAGE LEARNING: A resource for teaching English language learners, K—& Teaching children to read in a new language is a daunting task. Combining the best classroom practice and research, this unique book integrates effective reading instruction with effective language instruction. Teachers will find a collection of in-depth lessons and mini-lessons that are based on children`s language proficiency and reading strategy needs, and include ongoing assessment, teacher reflection, and an emphasis on choosing the right books to match reading and language level. Numerous resources — observation sheets, planning sheets, literature response sheets, to name a few — complement this extensive guide. Author: Mary Cappellini Pages: 344 ISBN: 9781571103673 Price: $ 44.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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BASIC TOOLS FOR BEGINNING WRITERS: How to teach all the skills beginning writers need How to teach all the skills beginning writers need - from alphabet recognition and spelling to strategies for self-editing and building coherent text. Offers teachers strategies for helping children grasp the pencil, print legibly, spell, punctuate, and create sentences that contain complete thoughts and link together logically. Includes background information, lesson ideas, and suggestions for student review, extensions, and modifications that lead to best practices in developing writing consistency. (Companion to What`s Next for this Beginning Writer.) Author: Betty Schultze Pages: 128 ISBN: 9781551382210 Price: $ 24.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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BECOMING A LITERACY LEADER: Supporting learning and change This unique chronicle is rooted in the belief that teachers already know what they need when it comes to professional development in literacy, and that the best literacy leaders are those who listen to and respect the educators in their midst. Practical and straightforward, the book covers all the bases — from organizing a literacy room to creating model programs to leading teacher study groups to finding and budgeting money for professional development programs in literacy. This insider`s view helps to define what leadership looks like, and shows how to create an environment that fosters professional development. An optimistic and realistic portrait of life in schools among teachers committed to doing their jobs well. Author: Jennifer Allen Pages: 152 ISBN: 9781571104199 Price: $ 26.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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BECOMING ONE COMMUNITY: Reading and Writing with English Language Learners Written for the general classroom teacher whose class includes English language learners (ELLs), as well as for ELL teachers working in general classrooms, this book portrays ELL students who learn essential reading and writing skills and are full members of the classroom community. Focusing on the importance of talk, be it during a workshop, after a read-aloud, or when sharing an idea with a partner or the class, ELLs use languge authentically, and, in using it, become more adept speakers, readers, and writers of English. The book provides many practical examples of diverse classrooms at work, and embeds theory on English-language development throughout. Author: Kathleen Fay and Suzanne Whaley Pages: 224 ISBN: 9781571103680 Price: $ 29.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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BETTER ANSWERS: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart At last teachers have a powerful alternative to those isolated skill-drill workshops. Although this book will prepare students for taking tests, it also prepares them for any task requiring thorough, cogent answers to questions. This remarkable book introduces an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol that helps students focus on the task at hand. It is a scaffolding process that begins with teacher modeling and invites students into independent response writing. This comprehensive book includes tips on how to handle stumbling blocks, examples of typical teacher/student interactions, and sample lesson vignettes. What a practical and effective alternative to the typical isolated, short-term "test prep!" Author: Ardith Davis Cole Pages: 136 ISBN: 9781571103413 Price: $ 25.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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BETTER BOOKS! BETTER READERS! How to Choose, Use and Level Books for Children in the Primary Grades Based on the authors` beliefs that using real books and real writing experiences help children not only become literate but also lovers of reading, Better Books! Better Readers! offers tips on how to create a classroom that fosters language learning. Organized around three evolving categories — Beginning Readers and Writers, Developing Readers and Writers and Fluent Independent Readers and Writers — teachers get advice on:
Author: Linda Hart-Hewins and Jan Wells Pages: 152 ISBN: 9781551381053 Price: $ 18.95 Add To Shopping Cart |
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