Educational strategies and policy

When done on a regular basis, interactive writing has the potential to improve independent writing.

When teaching reading, American classrooms often focus exclusively on skills instruction.

Literacy in the twenty-first century means more than just reading and writing.

Ask mathematicians to describe mathematics and they' ll use words like playful, beautiful, and creative.

Reading is all about understanding.

Since the first publication of Strategies That Work, numerous new books on reading comprehension have been published and more educators than ever are teaching comprehension.

In Take the Journey: Teaching American History Through Place-Based Learning, author, historian, and educator James Percoco invites you and your students to the places where many events in American history happened.

Primary-grade teachers face an important challenge: teaching children how to read while enabling them to build good habits so they fall in love with reading.

In A Closer Look, Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty provide the tools and strategies you need to use formative assessment in writing workshop.

Stories are all around us.

Intentional from the Start: Guiding Emergent Readers in Small Groups, Carolyn Helmers and Susan Vincent take a concentrated look at the often-underestimated reading and writing work that occurs during the emergent reading stages of literacy development (PreA -D) and the seemingly simplistic books we use to teach them in small-group guided reading.

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So What Do They Really Know?

With over 50 years of collective reading experience, authors Jan Burkins and Melody Croft bring their expertise to Preventing Misguided Reading: Next Generation Guided Reading Strategies.

Graphica is a medium of literature that integrates pictures and words and arranges them to tell a story or convey information, usually presented in a comic strip, periodical, or book form AKA comics.

Do you spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that your students have forgotten the words by the following week?

Vocabulary instruction is critical in any classroom, yet how do teachers go beyond weekly word lists and empower their students to make meaning from these words?

Graphica is a medium of literature that integrates pictures and words and arranges them to tell a story or convey information, usually presented in a comic strip, periodical, or book form AKA comics.

In Welcome to Reading Workshop: Structures and Routines that Support All Readers, Brenda Krupp and Lynne Dorfman bring their years of collective experience leading successful reading workshops to showcase the structures, routines, rituals, and behind-the-scenes decision making that will have your reading workshop running smoothly and effectively.

Every teacher of reading plays a vital role in helping to catch those readers for whom learning to read does not come easily.

Whether it's a trickling stream, a grassy slope, or an abandoned rail line, the natural world offers teachers a wonderful resource around which to center creative, inquiry-based learning throughout the year.

Author Debbie Diller turns her attention to small reading groups and the teacher's role in small-group instruction.

Throughout history, people have often expressed controversial and conflicting interpretations of current events.

Many teachers are frustrated with how spelling is traditionally taught and finding the time to support young spellers with explicit strategy instruction.

Young learners are full of questions and wonderings, so much so that sometimes they need a guide for their curiosity.

From the first chapter of Ann Marie Corgills Of Primary Importance: What's Essential in Teaching Young Writers, you experience the swirling energy, the sights, and the sounds of a primary classroom.

Educators across all content areas have turned to Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning for almost two decades.

To help students communicate their mathematical thinking, many teachers have created classrooms where math talk has become a successful and joyful instructional practice.

Most teachers enter the field of education to make a difference in children's lives.

Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need socially and emotionally healthy classrooms.

Every teacher of reading plays a vital role in helping to catch those readers for whom learning to read does not come easily.

In his new book,In the Best Interest of Students: Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom , teacher and author Kelly Gallagher notes that there are real strengths in the Common Core standards, and there are significant weaknesses as well.

How do you choose mentor texts for your students?

If you' ve ever questioned how to make math stations work, you' ll find this photo-filled, idea-packed resource invaluable.

This book highlights the intimate connection between racial/ethnic equity and school and community safety, the consequences of current inequities, and establishes the way forward in terms of future research, policy, and practice.

Love it or hate it, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today.

In Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook , author Aimee Buckner focuses on the reading workshop and how teachers can transform students from couch potato- readers who read and answer basic questions about a text to readers who critically think beyond their reading.

In her moving and personal book Enticing Hard-to-Reach Writers, Ruth Ayres weaves together her experience as a mother, teacher, and writer.

With so many state standards and demands of accountability, it can be a challenge for teachers to teach in ways that create energy and enthusiasm for reading.

In 6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching, Nicora Placa lays out a clear path to help you become a trusted and effective math coach.

When it comes to increasing student motivation and success in writing, classroom talk is a powerful tool.

Differentiation: From Planning to Practice , author Rick Wormeli provides an overview of the cognitive science behind differentiation.

With Super Spellers Starter Sets, you have everything you need to bring to life the wisdom of Super Spellers: Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction.

This poignant collection of stories and poems honors literacy educators for the often difficult and always essential work they do with students of all ages.

Ever wonder what the rest of your class should be doing while you are working with a small reading group?

Being literate in an academic discipline is more than being able to read and comprehend text; you can think, speak, and write as a historian, scientist, mathematician, or artist.

Word mastery comes from intimate knowledge of language.

When done on a regular basis, interactive writing has the potential to improve independent writing.

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.

Young learners are full of questions and wonderings, so much so that sometimes they need a guide for their curiosity.