Even if children know their phonics and ABC's inside out and can read every book in their book bag, why is it still so difficult to get them to want to read and write?
In Growing Writers, veteran teacher educator Anne Elrod Whitney explores how the principles defined in NCTEs Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing position statement can support high school writers and teachers of writing through knowledge and a conscious search for meaning in our writing activities.
Workshopping the Canon introduces practicing and preservice English language arts teachers to a process for planning and teaching the most frequently taught texts in middle and secondary classrooms using a workshop approach.
How might writing instructors dedicated to community-writing or service-learning courses take into account and even mobilize the lived experiences of all their students?
Following the great success of the earlier books, this fourth book in the Mathematics Recovery series equips teachers with detailed pedagogical knowledge and resources for teaching number to 7 to 11-year olds.
Doing What Works: Literacy Strategies for the Next Level will assist educators as they support students in the mastery of vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills required by the Common Core State Standards.
To address Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for reading and language, today's educators strive to help their students develop higher-level understanding with challenging materials.
Still the biggest concern for many on initial teacher training courses is the acquisition of subject knowledge and the ability to translate that into effective teaching.
Covering the key principles and concepts in the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary schools, this text provides trainee and practising teachers with a quick and easy reference to what they need to know for their course, and in the classroom.
The Classroom Library: A Catalyst for Literacy Instruction serves two purposes by first providing classroom teachers with a how-to guide in setting up and using the classroom library to support literacy.
Recommended and award-winning works of young adult literature featuring youth athletesprotagonists who are entangled not only in athletic competition but in the complications of life beyond the arenaoffer secure footholds that students can use to explore contemporary sociopolitical issues.
Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning, a collection of chapters from secondary teachers and university researchers, offers English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning.
Success in School and Career: Common Core Standards in Language Arts K5 provides kindergarten through grade-five educators and school and district administrators with historical perspectives that shaped the Common Core State Standards.
During a time of increased book banning and censoring, of scrutiny of the word critical, andeven calls for surveillance of K12 teachers, the burgeoning field of critical media literacy is moreimportant than ever.
Bringing together two key areas within early childhood- play and literacy - this book offers an innovative approach to examining literacies within the context of children's play.
The teacher training framework, introduced in September 2007, requires all teachers in the post-16 sector to possess knowledge, understanding and personal skills to at least level 2 in the minimum core for numeracy.
Workshopping the Canon for Democracy and Justiceadopts and adapts foundational reading and writing workshop structures for democratic and justice teaching in the context of the middle and secondary classroom and curriculum.
Beginning with the assertion that educators can effectively use comics and graphic novels to develop readers critical literacy and empathy, DeHart explores the use of graphic novels across grade levels in a wide range of topics and themes.
This book explores how mathematical mastery, influenced by East Asian teaching approaches, can be developed in a UK context to enhance teaching and to deepen children's mathematical knowledge.
'[This book] is a helpful edition to a field where there is a limited amount of good literature to support teachers dealing with second language acquisition in the classroom' - ESCalate`Gregory's book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on literacy, biliteracy, second language learning and early childhood education, synthesizing cutting-edge research, perspectives and teaching approaches in a clear and accessible way.
Phonics: Practice, Research and Policy unravels the controversy surrounding phonics which currently characterises much of the discussion about reading standards and teaching reading.
Writing Can Change Everything invites all of us to consider how the principles outlined in NCTEs Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing position statement weave throughout the best practices on display as students write through creative self-expression, narrative, inquiry, and project-based learning.
Adolescent Realities: Engaging Students in SEL through Young Adult Literature offers a connection between young adult literatures and social and emotional learning.
An extensive knowledge of the primary Mathematics curriculum is not enough for you as a trainee teacher, you need to know how to teach Mathematics in the primary classroom.
This popular, widely recommended, text supports trainees on primary initial teacher training courses where a secure knowledge and understanding of English is required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
This bookprovides an overview designed to help educators collaborate more effectively in the areas of content area literacy for the sake of their K-6 ELL students.
