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If you've ever wished that learning math could be more joyful and playful for young learners, you're not alone.

In her 30 years as an educator, Debbie Diller has closely examined classroom practice, asking Why?

Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman welcome you to experience the writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today's Students with a Model That Works.

In everything we have to understand, poetry can help.

The act of writing helps shape our thinking and is an important life skill we need to nurture in even our youngest students.

You can't learn to hit a three-point shot without missing a lot of shots.

Authors Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak are back with an updated version of Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6, 2nd Edition.

Beyond Answers: Exploring Mathematical Practices with Young Children, author Mike Flynn provides teachers with a clear and deep sense of the Standards for Mathematical Practice and shares ideas on how to best implement them in K-2 classrooms.

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

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.

Effective book introductions during guided reading set the stage for young readers to navigate new texts independently and successfully and often shape the outcome of small-group lessons.

With the rise of teacher stressors, new and changing state standards, and high-stakes testing, it is more important than ever to remind literacy teachers and teacher-librarians about the reason that brought them to this profession: the love of story.

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.

Under No Child Left Behind, nearly every teacher faces a high-stakes balancing act; managing the often incompatible responsibilities of teaching students meaningfully or preparing them for standardized tests.

With the rise of teacher stressors, new and changing state standards, and high-stakes testing, it is more important than ever to remind literacy teachers and teacher-librarians about the reason that brought them to this profession: the love of story.

If you've ever wished that learning math could be more joyful and playful for young learners, you're not alone.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.