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Quick view Classroom Routines for Real Learning: Student-Centered Activities That Empower and Engage by Jennifer Harper Classroom routines are the well-oiled machines that can make a classroom function. But routines can also provide the groundwork for a learning environment that nourishes student-driven learning. From routines to start the school day to those that build... View Details
Quick view Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning by Peter H Johnston Choice Words shows how teachers accomplish this using their most powerful teaching tool: language. Throughout, Peter Johnston provides examples of apparently ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the... View Details
Quick view Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators by David Sobel In Childhood and Nature, noted educator David Sobel makes the case that meaningful connections with the natural world don't begin in the rainforest or arctic, but in our own backyards and communities. Based on his observations of recurrent play themes... View Details
Quick view Celebrating Writers: From Possibilities to Publication by Ruth Ayres Writing begins before students even pick up a pencil, but there are many reasons to stop and rejoice between the idea and the finished project. By helping students celebrate each stage of the writing process and applauding success, we help our students... View Details
Quick view Caught in the Middle: Reading and Writing in the Transition Years by David Booth Caught in the Middle offers teachers a richly textured picture of the world of middle school students. David Booth describes who middle students are, explains why fostering their voice is important, and discusses how to create a community of literacy... View Details
Quick view The Castle in the Classroom: Story as a Springboard for Early Literacy by Ranu Bhattacharyya The Castle in the Classroom describes a year in a kindergarten classroom as the children embark on literary exploration. Each child approaches the journey from a different perspective -- some are self-sufficient, others more hesitant; some are literary... View Details
Quick view Caring Hearts and Critical Minds: Literature, Inquiry, and Social Responsibility by Steven Wolk In Caring Hearts & Critical Minds, teacher-author Steven Wolk shows teachers how to help students become better readers as well as better people. "I want [my students] to be thinkers and have rich conversations regarding critical issues in the text and... View Details
Quick view Can We Skip Lunch and Keep Writing?: Collaborating in Class and Online, Grades 3-8 by Julie D Ramsay Can We Skip Lunch and Keep Writing? shows teachers how to weave technology throughout the curriculum and get students so fired up about writing that they don't want to stop when the class period ends. Readers will learn how to select appropriate digital... View Details
Quick view The Cafe Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment & Instruction [With CDROM] by Gail Boushey In The CAFE Book, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser present a practical, simple way to integrate assessment into daily reading and classroom discussion. The CAFE system, based on research into the habits of proficient readers, is an acronym for Comprehension,... View Details
Quick view Bullied Teacher: Bullied Student: How to Recognize the Bullying Culture in Your School and What to Do about It by Les Parsons Students aren't the only ones bullying in schools. Teachers, principals, and parents bully too. Together they create a bullying culture that strikes at the heart of effective learning and teaching. A bullying culture harms everyone it touches targets,... View Details
Quick view Bringing the Outside in: Visual Ways to Engage Reluctant Readers by Sara B Kajder The reading that we value in school is becoming further and further distanced from the literacy students experience in their outside lives. Inside the classroom, we ask our students to immerse themselves in print texts and write purposefully. Once out... View Details
Quick view Bridges to Independence: Guided Reading with Nonfiction by Tony Stead Guided reading has long been recognized as a dynamic process that supports children's skills as readers in all genres, yet fiction accounts for over ninety percent of the texts we select for these small-group encounters. If children are to be empowered,... View Details
