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Quick view 59 Reasons to Write: Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers by Kate Messner In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be writers themselves. They must experience the same uncertainty of starting a new draft and then struggling to revise. As they learn to move past the fear of failure, they discover the nervous rush... View Details
Quick view 55 Teaching Dilemmas: Ten Powerful Solutions to Almost Any Classroom Challenge by Kathy Paterson 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... View Details
Quick view The Feedback-Friendly Classroom by Deborah McCallum What if feedback--from teacher to student, between students, from student to teacher--could be seen as an essential part of the ongoing process that defines the learning environment? This groundbreaking book explores using feedback to help students... View Details
Quick view Family Literacy Experiences: Creating Reading and Writing Opportunities That Support Classroom Learning by Jennifer Roswell This book offers a multitude of effective and practical ways that teachers can use what already excites and motivates students. It invites teachers to recognize the rich diversity of literacy experiences outside the classroom and create a parallel... View Details
Quick view Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli Fair Isn't Always Equal answers that question and much more. Rick Wormeli offers the latest research and common sense thinking that teachers and administrators seek when it comes to assessment and grading in differentiated classes. Filled with real... View Details
Quick view Eyewitness to the Past: Strategies for Teaching American History in Grades 5-12 by Joan Brodsky Schur Eyewitness to the Past examines six types of primary sources: diaries, travelogues, letters, news articles, speeches, and scrapbooks. Teachers will find interactive strategies to help students analyze the unique properties of each, and apply to them... View Details
Quick view Exploring Writing in the Content Areas: Teaching and Supporting Learners in Any Subject by Maria Carty Now more than ever before, students in all disciplines must know how to write with clarity and conviction. Whether they're studying science or social studies, they have to learn to collect and analyze information, and communicate their own ideas with... View Details
Quick view Exploding the Reading: Building a World of Responses from One Small Story by David Booth Based on learning generated by a 200-year-old folktale used by thirty teachers and a thousand kids, Exploding the Reading explores how to dig deep inside the story and encourages teachers to incorporate a variety of response modes. David Booth... View Details
Quick view Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop by Jeff Anderson Editing is often seen as one item on a list of steps in the writing process usually put somewhere near the end, and often completely crowded out of writer's workshop. Too many times daily editing lessons happen in a vacuum, with no relationship to what... View Details
Quick view Evaluating Students: How Teachers Justify and Defend Their Marks to Parents, Students, and Principals by Alex Shirran Teachers have far less autonomy in grading than they once did. In our high-stakes testing era, teachers need to be well-versed in the theory, practice, and politics of marking and be able to justify and defend their evaluation and teaching practices. View Details
Quick view Essay Writing: Teaching the Basics from the Ground Up by Jock Mackenzie The skills required to write an essay are the same skills required to write a speech, to prepare a persuasive argument, to prove a point, or to explain an idea. If we can help our students acquire these skills as we teach the essay, we will have... View Details
Quick view Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classroom by Johanna Riddle Literacy in the twenty-first century means more than just reading and writing. Today's students must learn how to interpret and communicate information through a variety of digital and print-based media formats, using imagery, online applications,... View Details
