Educational material
Pembroke Publishing Ltd 55 Teaching Dilemmas: Ten Powerful Solutions to
Book SynopsisTo 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 students to do their best. With practice, most teachers can develop the skills they need to conquer almost any classroom challenge. This book offers specific, practical ideas to help teachers: manage their classroom time efficiently; educate with passion and enthusiasm; support students who are struggling; motivate with creativity and humor; lead effectively both inside the classroom and out. In 55 Teaching Dilemmas, Kathy Paterson also shows readers how to counsel students in need, how to recognize and prevent burnout, how to communicate with parents and guardians, and how to encourage cooperative learning among students with different capabilities and skills.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Principal Difference: Key Issues in School
Book SynopsisPrincipals in today's schools face the complex challenge of being both visionary educational leaders and effective managers. They struggle to meet the conflicting needs and expectations of the staff and students, the parents, trustees, and even those in the wider community. They constantly strive to create a quality school environment that encourages learning for all.A teacher educator, researcher and consultant, Susan Church has a long-standing interest in the complexities and challenges of educational leadership. In The Principal Difference she explores the issues that confront school administrators, and demonstrates how best to provide the leadership today's schools need. It draws on the latest research and personal case studies to outline how educational leaders can:meet both external expectations and their school's own stated goals;be accessible, responsible, and accountable;respond to and make use of outside assessments;encourage and respect cultural diversity;work collaboratively with teachers and other staff members;engage students, parents, and members of the community.While demanding and at times stressful, the work of a principal can offer great rewards. This practical book shows principals how to transform their schools into more efficient, responsive learning communities as they learn to better meet the needs of students, staff, and the whole community.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Literacy, Libraries, and Learning: Using Books
Book SynopsisThe school library has changed dramatically. Today, it is a portal to a world of learning that includes traditional books, digital resources, and online environments. As the importance of information and communication technologies grows, teachers and teacher-librarians hold the key to creating powerful learning opportunities that help students function more effectively.This comprehensive guide discusses the changing responsibilities of classroom teachers and teacher-librarians in helping students become better readers, writers, and researchers. It offers suggestions for re-inventing the school library by offering a better and more current selection of resources, instilling students with the reading habit, and supporting them in these key areas:promoting reading for learning and pleasure;improving critical literacy skills when using information from many sources;encouraging research methods that respect copyright and lead to original work;designing information tasks to help students work effectively with data;developing better informational text structures that increase comprehension;encouraging the integration of emerging technologies and traditional resources.Literacy, Libraries, and Learning argues that using diverse learning resources can improve literacy achievement. It shows teachers and teacher-librarians how to turn their schools into first-rate learning environments and their students into lifelong learners.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Tutoring Adolescent Readers
Book SynopsisTutoring Adolescent Readers shows teachers how to reap the benefits of one-to-one teaching by using volunteer tutors. It provides the information you need to incorporate a tutoring program that addresses a variety of student needs — from students who are unmotivated or have different learning styles to those learning English for the first time or who have a learning disability.Teachers will learn everything they need to create an effective tutoring program that supports classroom instruction.Setting up a tutoring program — from defining the roles and responsibilities of tutors to recruiting and training volunteers;Working with dependent readers — from identifying readers who need more help to tips for dealing with the specific learning needs and styles of students;Using explicit instruction — from encouraging tutors to recognize where students are and how to set goals to monitor and assess student progress;Promoting fluency and word recognition — from teaching cueing systems and modeling effective reading strategies to using specialized techniques for introducing and reviewing decoding skills.Resources that teachers can copy and use with tutors are an important part of this handy resource. These materials explain the essentials of reading instruction and investigate the variety of techniques that good readers use.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Essay Writing: Teaching the Basics from the
Book SynopsisThe 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 assisted them in accomplishing truly valuable life skills.Essay Writing contains easy-to-incorporate lessons along with tips for teaching specific concepts that range from pre-writing exercises to revising and editing to celebrating the final product. This down-to-earth look at the foundations of good essay writing is full of useful ideas and strategies that help students:build skills in writing on a wide range of topics; distinguish between formal and informal writing;use effective pre-writing techniques such as brainstorming, making an outline,gathering information, and evaluating the relevance of information;gain confidence as they begin to recognize what works and what doesn't.The book incorporates a wide range of innovative approaches to teaching essay writing — from how to “picture” and “act out” an essay to a winning format for a topic sentence and using scattergrams to turn brainstorming into constructive outlines. Throughout the book, assessment tools and marking keys support simple marking techniques that consider not just the final essay, but effort and time on task.
£24.76
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Out of the Question: Guiding Students to a Deeper
Book SynopsisAsking questions and caring about the answers is a pivotal part of becoming an independent learner. In this handy practical, the authors provide strategies that help students and teachers effectively and critically evaluate what they read, see, hear, and do. Out of the Question explores such key issues as: why ask questions?nurturing questions in the classroom;promoting deeper thinking;generating an emotional response;encouraging creativity; building questioning skills;assessing the questioning process.The core activities in this practical guide focus on formulating questions that uncover what is relevant, what is of interest, what is legitimate, what is authentic, and what requires further investigation. It examines the role of teacher and student in answering and asking questions, looks at the structure of questions, and offers rubrics and checklists for assessment.
£16.71
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Writing Circle: A Powerful Structure That
Book SynopsisThe Writing Circle explores classroom writing groups as a powerful structure for giving students the support and guidance they need. Based on a common structure found in the writing world outside of school, these groups provide an ideal way for students to learn from each other. Under the teacher's guidance, young writers can work together on all aspects of the writing process—sharing drafts of writing, responding to each other's works-in-progress, and building confidence in themselves as writers. The writing process is dynamic; writers move from one stage to the other and back again doing two—or three or more—things at once. Students become more energized when they tap into this dynamic process and interact with peers. Writing circles have the added bonus of giving teachers lots of opportunities to observe, advise, learn, teach, and take part in writing circle discussions.This comprehensive resource includes everything needed to support writing circles in the classroom. Sample lessons outline specific learning goals and offer suggestions for student and teacher roles. Many of these lessons require that the teacher guide the writing circles, step-by-step, through activities, but the groups gradually gain their own momentum as students become more independent, skilled, and confident writers. Table of ContentsA Community of Writers; Within the Writing Circle; Establishing Writing Circles; Facing the Blank Page; The Author as Writing Coach; Where Does Revision Fit?; Voice and Voices; Within and Without Circles; Bibliography; Index
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Basic Tools for Beginning Writers: How to Teach
Book SynopsisThis practical book offers effective and creative activities that help young students master the skills they need to grow as writers. Among the topics discussed, the book thoroughly explores the important beginning steps, such as:putting pencil to paper;identifying and printing letters of the alphabet; exploring sound–symbol matches.Table of ContentsA Contextual Framework; Putting Pencil to Paper; Identifying and Making Letters of the Alphabet; Incorporating Basic Tools into Routines and Play; Phonemic Awareness and Sound-Symbol Matches; Learning How to Spell; Creating a Legible, Coherent Text; Resources; Appendixes; Index
£26.31
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Poetry Experience: Choosing and Using Poetry in
Book SynopsisThis playful 32-page flip book explores all aspects of poetry — from guidelines and an overview of poetic forms to the Top Ten lists of various poetry favorites. Handy reproducible masters are also provided which include a poetry timetable, ten questions to ask about any poem, an observation checklist for teachers, and a personal poetry inventory for students.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Building Info Smarts: How to Work with All Kinds
Book SynopsisAn ideal review for teachers, this innovative flip book shows students how to identify their learning style as they build important information literacy skills. Students learn how to apply what they read, hear, and see to what they already know, and grow in their understanding of themselves and the world around them. From reading books and analyzing a movie to working on a research project, students will investigate effective strategies for finding and using all kinds of information and making it their own.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Math Memories You Can Count On: A
Book SynopsisRooted in real-life math experiences, this highly readable book explores innovative ways you can teach math principles using the best children's books. This simple book shows teachers how to select, organize, and use children's literature to connect children with real-world math. Committed to creating long-lasting positive math memories, it goes beyond reading about math and encourages linking text with relevant manipulatives in a hands-on, minds-on, problem-solving environment.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd It's Critical!: Classroom Strategies for
Book SynopsisAll text comes with layers of meaning influenced by the background knowledge and attitudes of readers. This valuable resource examines the power of language and persuasion helps students critically examine and negotiate the underlying meaning in all that they read and see. It asks them to consider the author''s purpose, and to appreciate that each text is written from a particular point of view.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Nonfiction Reading Power: Teaching Students How
Book SynopsisHow can you help students find meaning in informational texts and become independent strategic readers and thinkers? Nonfiction Reading Power gives teachers a wealth of effective strategies for helping students think while they read material in all subject areas.Trade Review"Gear's Nonfiction Reading Power provides a pratical approach for teachers on how to actually teach important comprehension skills so that students can better use and understand nonfiction." - CM Magazine
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World
Book SynopsisThis powerful book helps teachers redefine an inclusive curriculum by questioning what is taught, how it is taught, to whom, and under what conditions. It offers teachers a wealth of challenging, open-ended pursuits that give students voice and help them better understand their world. It explores opportunities for students to connect with social justice issues in the real world through imagined experiences found in short stories, novels, plays, picture books, graphic novels, and primary source documents, such as letters.Trade ReviewA thought provoking and interesting read." - SEN Magazine, August 2016
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Text Me a Strategy: How to Encourage Students to
Book SynopsisThis timely book offers teachers practical tools that promote student learning and personal growth in our fast-paced information age. Building on students' love of text messaging, this book offers 100 "crisp and snappy" strategies that are easily taught, reviewed, and reinforced by teachers. The name of each strategy reflects its function, which makes the strategy easy to recall, easy to apply, and fun to use. The strategies are organized around seven themes -- Remembering, Communicating, Organizing, Discovering, Understanding, Creating, and Living Well -- that represent general teaching goals. Text Me a Strategy provides teachers with a wealth of tactics to help students sift through volumes of content and develop life-enhancing strategies.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Getting Dads on Board: Fostering Literacy
Book SynopsisGetting Dads On Board offers teachers effective techniques for attracting, recruiting, and keeping fathers involved in their children's literacy learning. Real-life experiences illustrate how a father's individual interests, strengths, and identity can complement and enrich his child's learning. Filled with sample letters to send home (with suggested games and activities), as well as ideas for workshops and other literacy events, this book provides teachers with a range of tools they can use to get and keep dads on board.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Picture Book Experience: Choosing and Using
Book SynopsisThis handy flipchart describes how teachers can effectively use picture books as tools for learning. Through deeper reading, students experience and respond to picture books in a way that enhances understanding and leads to renewed wonder. The Picture Book Experience includes easy-to-use tips, charts, graphic organizers, and activities for whole-classroom or independent reading. The extensive lists of titles, authors, and illustrators help teachers and students select personal picture book favorites to return to again and again.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Pulling Together
Book SynopsisFour dedicated educators pull in the current big ideas in teaching formative assessment, backward design, inquiry learning, strategic teaching, metacognition and put them together in a way that makes sense. Pulling Together shows how this collaborative process is reflected in all aspects of the literacy learning process, from unit planning to the inquiry process to linking assessment to responsive lesson design. The book explores working together with students to develop and explore essential ideas and practices, including: responsive teaching and assessment; reading as a personalized and meaningful experience; critical literacy. Complete with diagrams, graphic organizers, classroom examples, assessment tools, and lists of core understandings, this timely guide presents a comprehensive answer to the big questions about teaching English language arts
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Whatever Happened to Language Arts: ...It's Alive
Book SynopsisWhatever Happened to Language Arts? presents David Booth's best literacy strategies from almost half a century of teaching and enriches them with practical ideas and techniques that teachers can use. Each chapter features vignettes of outstanding teachers in action and reflects on what informed their successful classroom practice. David looks at literacy techniques that range from group reading to language experience to whole language to synthetic phonics to balanced literacy to reading and writing workshops and shares his insights into the way forward.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Desperately Seeking Solutions: Helping students
Book SynopsisHow do we specifically help kids become good problem-solvers in school as well as in their everyday lives? Desperately Seeking Solutions discusses the specific skills and the critical and creative thinking that go into confronting problems. Organized for easy classroom use, the book introduces a five-step plan for handling almost any situation—defining the problem, considering possibilities, choosing the best option, taking action, and evaluating decisions. Concrete examples teacher-specific tips, and educational games complement this important resource.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Books as Bridges: Using Text to Connect Home and
Book SynopsisBased on research that shows that parents play a vital role in raising a reader, Books as Bridges offers an effective and efficient way to use touchstone texts, including children’s picture books, to help create a common reading experience for the class that can be extended to the home. This practical book introduces four guiding principles—predictable structures, nonfiction, comprehension, and imagination and language play—describing each principle in terms of a series of strategies, which are highlighted by their use with specific touchstone books, and supported by lists of related books to consider.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Surviving and Thriving: Making Classroom
Book SynopsisClassroom organization and management are essential elements of strong teaching and meaningful learning. A thoughtfully organized classroom with effective and well-established routines and procedures helps to create an environment that promotes and encourages learning.This handy book helps teachers envision such a classroom. Surviving and Thriving provides practical tips that teachers can put into action before, during, and after the learning. Before Class: What routines and procedures do teachers need to consider before students arrive in the classroom each year and each day? Routines, Time and Planning, Physical Space, Materials During Class: How will students and teachers function during class time as they interact with each other and with the learning situation? Grouping, Transitions, Refocusing, Encouraging Discussion, Reporting Out, Checking Understanding, Documenting Learning After Class: What can the teacher do after the students leave to ensure the smooth transition from one day to the next? Record-keeping
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Drama Schemes, Themes & Dreams: How to Plan,
Book SynopsisDrama Schemes, Themes & Dreams offers a comprehensive outline of improvistion and interpretation strategies that theachers can incoroporate in classroom instruction. Organized around universal themes that invite students to make connections to texts and to each other, the book encourages students to consider their own identities and their place in the world. This useful book features a host of sources for dramatic activity, including scripts, monologues, poetry, novel excerpts, and technology. The activities enrich the meaning-making, creative process, and critical skills that students need to succeed in school and life.,
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Breathe, Stretch, Write: Learning to Write with
Book SynopsisThe creative exercises in this innovative book use simple movements and yoga principles to boost children's creativity as they write and play with words and ideas.Designed to spark imagination and enhance creativity, the guided exercises and fun-filled suggestions integrate elements of writing with body awareness and physical fitness to create a safe and joyful learning experience. The book is based on workshops the author has led for more than twenty years.This friendly guide evolved from the author's own experience as a writer and teacher who marveled at how yoga and movement affected the flow of her creative work and the clarity of her writing.Breathe, Stretch, Writesupports learning that is cooperative and involves strength, flexibility, and mental discipline. It connects the power of movement with innovative writing exercises that focus on these essential elements: Breathing (Respiration) Doing (Concentration) Being (Inspiration) Writing (Creation) Today more than ever, students need to move and find ways to be healthier in mind, body, and spirit. This book combines writing and creative exercises with the most basic movements that are easy to incorporate into classroom instruction. Useful and inspiring for teachers and students alike, the book is committed to getting kids to write and play with words and ideas. Breathe, Stretch, Write challenges teachers to refresh, inspire, and commit to finding the fun in learning.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Journey to Literacy: No Worksheets Required
Book SynopsisJourney to Literacy argues that teachers need to engage children in their own learning and give them opportunities to pursue their own interests and investigations. Through individual and small-group gatherings, conferences, and personal interactions, this resource offers teachers simple and effective ways to engage young learners and provide positive feedback and support.Teachers will find a wealth of resources for creating meaningful learning experiences, including answers to often-asked questions; mileposts to inform teaching instruction; suggestions for games, writing folders and reading logs; and activities for individual students and small groups. Journey to Literacy is a valuable support to teachers as they move beyond worksheets and nurture kindergarten children on their journey toward life-long literacy.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Write It Right!: Seven Steps to Revising,
Book SynopsisNo matter what you are writing or why, Write It Right! is a handy companion that will guide you through the various stages of the writing process. Straightforward and easy-to-read, this unique flipchart focuses on the revising and editing stages and shows young writers how to polish their writing and make it ready to share with others. Write It Right! is a great review for teachers and a valuable tool for students and includes all the nitty-gritty information students need, with tips, aids, and checklists for easy reference.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Writing Power: Teaching Writing Strategies That
Book SynopsisWriting Power is a practical and thoughtful resource that shows teachers how to encourage students to consider the reader's thinking as they write. Using the same five thinking strategies from Adrienne Gear's groundbreaking Reading Power books—Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform—young writers will learn how to engage and invite their readers' thinking through their writing. Writing Power guides teachers through a series of lessons focusing on each of the strategies and includes scripted, sequential lessons, recommended anchor books, reproducibles, and assessment rubrics.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Ban the Book Report: Promoting Frequent and
Book SynopsisTeachers recognize that frequent independent reading increases student knowledge on a wide range of topics, enhances vocabulary, and improves comprehension. Ban the Book Report inspires teachers to go beyond narrow and analytical book reports by exploring the potential of book talks, alternate book covers, identifying features of informational books, newspaper headlines and articles, talk-show interviews, diary entries for characters and letters to authors. This remarkable resource offers more than twenty specific assignments with its own rubric written in student-friendly language along with student response exemplars from real classrooms. Tips to help teachers launch and manage an independent reading program complement this timely book.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Caught in the Middle: Reading and Writing in the
Book SynopsisCaught 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 partners. He shows teachers how to model writing, incorporate picture books, promote reader engagement and comprehension, interact with student journals, prompt discussion and self-assessment, and more. In addition to his own classroom experiences, David showcases the contributions of remarkable middle school teachers who address a range of topics, including the impact of social media, the effect of the Internet on research, the need for critical literacy, the importance of citizen involvement, and the potential of the school library. Caught in the Middle presents a rich synthesis of insight, experience, and reflection.Trade Review"Caught in the Middle is one of those rare books that truly has the capacity to help a teacher carve out a roadmap for a successful year of working with middle school readers and writers." - MiddleWeb
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Learning in Safe Schools: Creating Classrooms
Book SynopsisA practical and timely revision, Learning in Safe Schools offers the tools teachers need for building inclusive schools, from establishing a schoolwide code of conduct to creating, enforcing, and supporting a behavior plan. Grounded in the concept that choice for students in both learning and assessment is critical, this completely updated resource offers ideas for planning and adapting curriculum for a wide range of students and encourages strategies that build collaborative learning with examples of effective approaches to problem solving. Learning in Safe Schools includes resource models, class reviews, adaptations, and activities that will help teachers create safer classrooms where all students feel they belong.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Literacy Smarts: Simple Classroom Strategies for
Book SynopsisLiteracy Smarts introduces simple activities and tasks that use interactive whiteboard technology to bring a new vitality to classroom lessons. Based on extensive classroom experience, the authors argue that interactive whiteboards can create numerous possibilities for teaching and learning and describe how interactive whiteboards can lead us into the future of learning—interpreting, managing, exploring, and expanding our students' thinking. Literacy Smarts advocates for student-centered learning and demands that students think, interact, and engage with a wide variety of texts across all the content areas.Trade Review"The book is full of ideas you can incorporate regardless of the grade level you are teaching." - Professionally Speaking
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Write Voice: Using Rich Prompts to Help Student
Book SynopsisThe Write Voice shows how to use rich, engaging writing prompts to help students develop their writing voice and addresses the importance of listening to a mentor's voice, defining voice, setting success criteria, and seeking peer and teacher feedback. Organized around seven strategies—Sensory Statements, Emotional Cues, Wordsmithing, Developing Character, Perspectives, Personality, and Style—The Write Voice illustrates countless ways students can experiment with their own writing voice, engage in dialogue about their writing and the writing of their peers, and set personal goals for themselves as writers. Teachers will learn how to create a classroom of writers who enthusiastically stir up an emotional response as they read, talk, and share their words.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd This Book is Not About Drama: It's About New Ways
Book SynopsisThis Book Is Not About Drama explores issues around storytelling, silent speech, writing and imagination and shows teachers how to use role play and discussion to build language experiences that are meaningful for learners. This authoritative resource is full of simple strategies that begin with the simple and evolve in to more complex opportunities, including creating rituals, exploring the storyteller’’’’s voice, demonstrating read-aloud, celebrating role-playing, and more. Classroom glimpses illustrate the power that students can bring to their learning as they share within groups and find ways to involve their audience.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Reading in the Real World: Strategies for Finding
Book SynopsisFrom focusing on meaning and technique to sharing and transforming texts, Reading in the Real World is full of simple yet effective ways to read all text forms with confidence. Strategies to use before, during, and after reading help students discover how meaning and technique work together in real-world texts.Based on the many forms of texts that modern readers encounter, the book uses familiar genres to guide readers to a better understanding of new text formats. It includes reproducible organizers and examples—ranging from stories and poetry to comics and print advertisements—to help readers make the most of the texts that surround them in their real lives.In a short and accessible form, this book outlines innovative approaches and activities that will motivate students to read effectively and with enthusiasm.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Guiding Readers: Making the Most of the 18-Minute
Book SynopsisGuiding Readers argues that the 18-minute guided reading lesson may very well be the finest teaching we do. This practical book introduces a range of specific reading strategies and processes that lead students to access increasingly more sophisticated text, including sequential practical lesson routines, suggestions for selecting appropriate texts for readers at each stage. Teachers will find reproducibles and an appendix that offers information on reading manipulatives and other teaching tools that support the 18-minute guided reading lesson.Trade Review"This text is a stellar guide to guided reading. Its concise format, current topics and usable ideas make it one of the best investments you will make this year." - Professionally Speaking
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Balanced Literacy Essentials: Weaving Theory into
Book SynopsisBalanced Literacy Essentials shows teachers how to create a literacy program that balances the components of language arts with the power of meaningful interaction with students. Based on the latest learning theories, this timely resource is full of simple ways teachers can nurture meaningful reading, writing, and talk in today's classroom. The book provides an overview of reading instruction, techniques for supporting writers; and poetry, storytelling, and drama activities. Balanced Literacy Essentials offers the background and strategies teachers need to encourage students to question, discover, and learn.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd 100 Minutes: Making Every Minute Count in the
Book SynopsisIt is possible to create a literacy block where teachers meet with students for guided reading and writing conferences, and provide daily explicit instruction in both reading and writing. A comprehensive look at literacy and learning, 100 Minutes shows teachers how to fit balanced literacy into a daily 100-minute literacy block using a framework of whole-class instruction and writing sessions, combined with independent work. It also offers strategies for dealing with the important elements of literacy instruction, including sharing and conferencing; using exemplars; creating success criteria; providing effective feedback; building in rich tasks, higher-level thinking, open-ended questions, and collaborative learning opportunities; and thinking critically and analytically about all kinds of texts.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd When Spelling Matters: Developing Writers Who Can
Book SynopsisSpelling is not a low-level rote memory activity but a high-level cognitive skill. When Spelling Matters argues that children learn to spell by investigating how words work and recognizing the unique structure and patterns of words. Based on the belief that students need multiple strategies to help them spell, this practical book offers a series of explicit lessons that address the developmental nature of spelling and encourages students to apply their growing word knowledge to their own writing and editing. When Spelling Matters helps teachers nurture students who love words, are inspired by metaphors and word origins and see language as a valuable resource to be mined deeply.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Student-Driven Learning: Small, Medium, and Big
Book SynopsisTeachers know that their students love to explore and learn. But, how do we make this possible with thirty students, with different needs, learning styles, and backgrounds, all in one small room with one teacher in the class? Designed to help teachers reflect on their current teaching practice, Student-Driven Learning suggests small shifts, medium-sized ideas, and big changes that can be made to encourage student engagement through flexible, student-centered learning. Experiential earning that is student-driven fosters autonomy and shifts the focus from the knowledge and influence of the teacher to the experiences of the students. Student-Driven Learning helps teachers introduce opportunities for students to learn their own way, to take initiative, and to experience, wonder, and create.Trade Review"This book offers some great insights and clear steps for teachers to transform their practice from teacher-driven to student driven-learning." - Professionally Speaking
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Back to Learning: How Research-Based Classroom
Book SynopsisBased on the most up-to-date research, Back to Learning presents straightforward analysis and practical guidance on confronting bullying, taming the digital universe, and changing the troublesome trend in students' entitled attitudes toward learning and grades. Back to Learning gives teachers the background they need to: understand how the brain learns and incorporate that knowledge into teaching methods, individualize instruction in any learning/teaching situation, acknowledge the bullying crisis in schools and learn how to solve the bullying puzzle, recognize the limits of standardized testing and better prepare students for being tested, and appreciate where the digital revolution might lead and the implications for students' current and future roles.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Students at Risk
Book SynopsisThis expanded and updated revision shows teachers how to deal with the different academic strengths and needs, learning styles, intelligences, interests, and cultural backgrounds of all the students in their classrooms. Students at Risk also presents descriptions, symptoms, and characteristics of various exceptionalities, including autism spectrum disorders, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, mental health problems, learning disabilities, hearing impairments, giftedness, and low-incidence disabilitiesand provides case studies that illustrate how teachers can make simple accommodations that lead to positive student outcomes.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Moment to Moment: A Positive Approach to Managing
Book SynopsisMoment to Moment offers teachers the tools they need to help children succeed socially, emotionally, and behaviorally and shows how to build important social skills—from controlling speech and movement to building attention and concentration, to adapting to the social environment. This important book empowers teachers to help children develop stronger character, sense of self, and emotional well-being, giving them the skills they need to deal with the emotional challenges they meet in school.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Digital Principal
Book SynopsisThe Digital Principal shows educational leaders how to apply their leadership skills to the challenge of creating and supporting a technology-rich environment. From digital citizenship to connecting to the digital community to accessing digital and virtual worlds, this book establishes a framework for integrating technology into instruction and learning. It includes technology standards specific to educational administrators, a survey testing a school’s Technology Quotient (its readiness to embrace both the digital principle and the digital principal), tips for writing grants to improve a school’s technology resources, and ways to help teachers facilitate technology-based student learning.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd I've Got Something to Say: How Student Voices
Book SynopsisIn I’ve Got Something to Say, teachers will learn how to inspire students to buy into their own learning by giving them a voice in determining, organizing, structuring, and responding to what is happening in the classroom. This timely book details how to create a powerful classroom that reflects a community of voices and nurtures group interactions. It offers practical strategies that will engage students in thoughtful dialogue and discussion as a class, in groups, and with partners and presents transcripts from children’s classroom dialogues and conversations that illustrate a variety of classroom interactions.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Struggling Readers: Why Band-Aids Don't Stick and
Book SynopsisIt is a troubling statistic that a quarter of the students in any grade are reading below grade level. The good news is that it's not too late, even in middle school, to provide the extra instruction that will get the majority of these students back on track.The practical, classroom-tested reading instruction strategies in Struggling Readers are carefully chosen to be effective with students in Grades 3–9. More than band-aid solutions that focus on discrete skills that don't transfer to real reading, this insightful book shows teachers how to give struggling readers what they really need: the opportunity to read texts they can and want to read; explicit instruction in long-term strategies they can use on their own; confidence in themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers.This comprehensive resource is organized around the instructional needs of struggling readers: teaching and texts targeted to their needs the opportunity to read more explicit instruction and guided practice in comprehension strategies • building vocabulary and fluency the ability to read informational and functional texts using writing to make sense of reading The lesson routines are specifically designed for small-group work, but are adaptable to whole-class or individualized learning.Struggling Readers is a valuable resource that will help teachers use guided reading strategies from the early grades to reach those students still struggling with reading basics.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Conquering the Crowded Curriculum
Book SynopsisConquering the Crowded Curriculum builds on the four principles of identity, imagination, innovation, and integration that together form a framework that connects the curriculum by using one subject to enrich others. Teachers will appreciate the in-depth descriptions of comprehensive projects that carefully and skillfully integrate curriculum areas so that students are encouraged to see different perspectives, think critically, work with new material in various contexts, and represent their new knowledge in innovative ways. Based on the author’s extensive classroom experience, this comprehensive resource includes relevant websites, templates, and ready-to-use reproducibles.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd 3 Minute Motivators
Book Synopsis3 Minute Motivators helps teachers recognize and respond to the daily needs of their students and distract, refocus, and provide a “hit of fun” in the school day to help students become more focused, motivated, and self-aware. New material in this practical book explores novel ways to inspire students as well as to build and practice important life skills and includes more than 200 activities (150 brand new!), new “Tech Too Motivators,” new “Stress Attack Motivators,” and more. Teachers and students alike can use the strategies in the revised and expanded edition of 3 Minute Motivators to defuse negative situations and tune students back into learning.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd ANIE: A Math Assessment Tool that Reveals
Book SynopsisThe ANIE (Assessment of Numeracy for Education) is a teacher-developed assessment tool that uses numeracy and common core performance standards to assess student understanding of math concepts. This simple diagnostic tool helps teachers identify gaps in learning so they can plan intervention. It takes about 10 minutes to administer, grading is relatively quick and most important, teachers can use the results to plan timely and targeted intervention.This remarkable book introduces a powerful assessment tool and intervention strategies that are remarkably simple yet revolutionary in their impact on student learning. Based on extensive use in hundreds of classrooms, the book explains each component of the ANIE. It shares proven techniques for introducing the ANIE to students, grading and interpreting the results to inform teaching and learning. This highly-readable book uses real situations and results throughout the book to illustrate radical improvements in leaning that the ANIE has inspired.The ANIE helps students master a consistent, 4-step process for solving any math question decide what operation is needed to solve a question estimate a reasonable answer calculate the answer represent the question and apply the concept to a real world situation by developing a world problem. Designed for students in grades 1 through 12, the ANIE is a one-page assessment of a single learning outcome or standard. Complex enough to fully align with performance standards, it is simple enough to use as a learning tool every day.
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