Educational material
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Classroom Routines for Real Learning:
Book SynopsisClassroom 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 classroom community, routines can help maximize learning by providing stability, consistency, and time management skills—for teachers and students. Well-structured routines can increase active student engagement, promote individual accountability, and establish a positive classroom climate.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Stop the Stress in Schools: Mental Health
Book SynopsisStop the Stress in Schools argues that conflict does not involve large isolated incidents but small daily frustrations and emphasizes the power teachers have in building a positive classroom environment. This timely book introduces mental health strategies that lead to an environment that supports student well-being, the ability to learn effectively, security, kindness, and motivation. A comprehensive approach to reducing stress for teachers and students, this book features practical examples, activities, samples of student work, and calming strategies that include slowing the pace, increasing positive engagement and interaction, considering the perspective of the student, and celebrating the process instead of the product.Trade ReviewEducators, students and parents all experience stress in their day-to-day lives. Mental health in schools is gaining a lot of attention, particularly with the introduction of the updated health curriculum. Today, in addition to teaching learning skills, Ontario educators are expected to teach, report on and create mentally healthy classrooms.Stop the Stress in Schools, a book written by Joey Mandel, provides “mental health strategies that teachers can use to build a kinder and gentler classroom.” Mandel, a special education teacher, sets up the premise of her book early on – it is important that educators adopt their own regular routine of stress management. Mandel asserts that this is critical prior to modelling strategies to students. She encourages teachers to see and develop their role of guiding their students, coaching them to find their own solutions independently without placing judgement. This resource is practical and easy to navigate. It has a wide selection of ready-to-use graphic organizers, suggested anchor charts and activities. Teachers can choose to use these aids or modify them to suit the needs of their students. The author provides realistic scenarios and three styles of teacher response to each scenario: ignore, react or respond, respond always being the author’s recommendation. All the scenarios are realistic and likely to happen in the elementary school classroom. The author does a great job of speaking to teachers across all levels of experience from the first-year teacher to the veteran; there is something here for all. Mandel suggests many stress management strategies, such as promoting positive self-talk, using self-calming strategies, practising mindfulness and guided visualizations, engaging in community circles, doing breathing exercises, writing and drawing out feelings, creating dialogue with and among students, using healthy channels like mediation and encouraging both resiliency and self-regulation. I will use many of the suggested strategies and aids provided in this book as I begin my own journey into the special education classroom. As a former homeroom teacher, I can appreciate the relevance of this resource in any classroom. This book is great for elementary school settings, across all divisions. REVIEWED BY AMY SMITHAmy Smith is a member of the York Region Teacher Local. ETFO VOICE Magazine of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Exploding the Reading: Building a World of
Book SynopsisBased on learning generated by a 200-year-old folktale used by thirty teachers and a thousand kids, Exploding the Reading explores how to “dig deep” inside the story and encourages teachers to incorporate a variety of response modes. David Booth demonstrates that when students share their personal interpretations with others, they alter, grow, reframe, and extend their understanding of the text. This practical book also shows teachers how to help students discover the world outside the text: the different backgrounds, connections, places, values, and perceptions students bring to their reading. Student samples and actual transcripts present students experiencing the featured story through poems, visuals, blogs, art, conversation, and more.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Q-Tasks: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions
Book SynopsisThe first edition of Q-Tasks showed teachers how to empower students to develop their own questions and build their critical thinking and inquiry skills. This new, revised edition features innovative ways teachers can help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding and give them ownership of their learning experience. More than one hundred tried-and-proven classroom activities in this practical book will take students beyond memorization and rote learning. Additionally, the new edition addresses how teachers can use the power of technology to promote collaboration among students through Q task extensions that introduce digital components.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Ready, Set, Learn: Integrating Powerful Learning
Book SynopsisFor the vast majority of students, the skills and work habits that are crucial for successful learning are not in place when they arrive at the school door. These skills must be explicitly taught by teachers who recognize the unique learning styles, preferences, and interests of their students. Ready, Set, Learn focuses on the importance of encouraging students to set their own personal learning goals and persevere to achieve them. Along with organizers, prompts, and specific activities, this timely book includes lessons that explicitly teach organization, collaboration, communication, independence, memory, and initiative. Trade ReviewThis practical book transcends the often vague descriptors for assessing learning skills and delves into explicit instruction about how to actually teach those skills so that students can learn how to expand their knowledge. Learning skills transfer between all subject areas and are essential components and indicators of student success. Organization, collaboration and initiative are among some of the basic skill sets explored in this treasury of high-interest lessons and activities for elementary-level students. As the book progresses, communication and memory skills are also considered. The book includes rubrics, organizers and models designed to meet the needs of both individual students and whole classes. Students’ learning styles, preferences and interests are acknowledged throughout the book, and closure for each activity includes a self-reflection piece and suggestions for descriptive, ongoing feedback to both students and their parents about learning skills. Teachers recognize the valuable role next steps play in assessment. This book shows them how to create opportunities for discussion and for modelling strategies so that students can learn how to set specific goals and success criteria for measuring their own development. Open the pages of this book to identify what learning skills your students need. Then learn how to collect the evidence and take the next steps to support their continued growth as part of your daily instruction.Anne Marie Landon, OCT, is acting principal at George Vanier Catholic School in Combermere, Ont., with the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board.Professionally Speaking (the official magazine of the Ontario College of Teachers)June 2017
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Marvelous Mini-Lessons for Teaching Nonfiction
Book SynopsisToday’s young learners know more about their world than ever before. This remarkable book shows that even our youngest writers can consider audience and purpose as they use nonfiction writing to document their ideas and share those ideas with others. But if students are going to be able to use writing to learn, they must have opportunities for learning to write. That’s what this book is for. Forty minilessons offer strategies for writing informational, persuasive and procedural text. Each lesson starts with a learning goal and follows an “I do, We do, You do” format. Teachers will find a wealth of ideas for guiding young students to write about what they know and care about.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Feedback-Friendly Classroom
Book SynopsisLearning is inherently social, built on the daily interactions in the classroom. What if feedback -- from teacher to student, between students, from student to teacher -- could be seen as essential, not merely as part of student assessment, but as an ongoing process that defines the learning environment? This groundbreaking book explores using feedback to help students become better learners, examines the crucial use of verbal and nonverbal language to engage and guide students, and shows strategies and activities to establish and promote effective feedback within the classroom and beyond.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd P.L.A.N. for Better Learning
Book SynopsisThis practical book is designed to assist teachers in structuring their learning practice. The framework of four basic and proven steps -- Preparation, Learning Sequence, Authentic Application, and New Thinking -- can be used at any level, for any subject, and for learning applications from lessons to unit plans. Combining the best research on how we learn with practical lesson exemplars, the PLAN process encourages and supports goal setting, student engagement, and transformational learning.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Dramatic Play in the Early Years
Book SynopsisThis practical book offers unique and powerful ways to use play to investigate stories, big ideas, and events. It focuses on dramatic play as a natural response to learning.Dramatic Play in the Early Years argues that dramatic play is not theatre but a dynamic process that involves planning, playing, and practice. It shows teachers how to involve young students in play where they become the story and live the life of the characters or animals, bump up against issues, and better appreciate the complexities of the human journey. This comprehensive resource covers many aspects of learning through play and explores • The Creative Process — from setting up the “Aha” moment to describing the teacher’s role • Getting Started — from the willing suspension of disbelief to strategic use of pauses to listening for next steps • The Importance of Practice — from working towards focus and control and side-coaching to becoming believable characters • Building Belief — from narrating to cast a spell to using blank paper to set a story scene • Finding the Story — from choosing a story to strategies for prompting improvisation • Playing Inside the Curriculum — from establishing a framework to finding the story in subject areas Rooted in classroom experience, this valuable resource offers a variety of effective ways in which children can be encouraged to incorporate voice, characterization, movement, stillness, concentration, and listening for more expressive play.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd This is a Great Book! : 101 Events for Building
Book Synopsis“This Is a Great Book!” is rooted in the belief that having a wide range of “great” books to read is essential to student success as readers inside the classroom ... and beyond. Based on extensive research, this highly readable book explores a wide range of recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages for readers of chapter books to young adult novels. It presents novels around popular themes and features guest voices that include innovative teachers, librarians, booksellers, and students. Numerous activities and literacy events form the core of this valuable resource. Reproducible pages include response activities, reflection tools, assessment profiles, and inventories for easy classroom use. Committed to nurturing the love of reading, the book invites readers to dig deeper in their understanding and appreciation of books by responding through writing, discussion, the arts, media, and more. Special attention is given to the world of independent leisure reading, where students make choices based on their preferences and tastes. Experienced and new teachers will find fresh ideas and the tools they need to guide students to “great” books that will make a difference in their lives. Trade ReviewThis is a Great Book! is rooted in the belief that offering your students great books to read and showing them how to dig deeper into their own responses to them is the foundation of turning them into real readers. This all-in-one guide, which starts with the underpinning educational research and ends at assessment profiles, blackline masters and appendices, represents a continuum of reading in many genres from chapter books to young adult novels. Novels are a great way to stimulate students’ critical abilities and to engage with a wide range of responses that can transcend words and open possibilities and concepts in the wider world. The 101 literacy events outlined in the book invite students to delve into a text not only with written responses but with discussion, through the arts and using online media. Attention is given to exploring reading that is based on the preferences and tastes of students as they develop a lifelong love of reading.Mary Veronica Moloney, OCT, teaches Grade 4 at D’Arcy McGee Catholic School with the Toronto Catholic District School Board.Professionally Speaking (the official magazine of the Ontario College of Teachers)June 2017
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Independent Reading Inside the Box: How to
Book SynopsisThe best-selling first edition of this popular book showed teachers how to use a single sheet of paper to add value, authenticity, and accountability to independent reading programs. It emphasized students reading books they love rather than filling reading time with busy work. In this second edition of Independent Reading Inside the Box, Lisa Donohue shares what she has learned from the many teachers who have used her simple approach to reading response. Lisa describes how teachers can do even more to strengthen student comprehension, language, and thinking skills. Full of new ways to monitor, assess, and support students as they are actively engaged in their reading, the book remains committed to the premise that independent reading time is purposeful and directly connected to classroom instruction. This highly awaited second edition explores critical literacy to promote higher-order thinking skills, individualized goal-setting, feedback and monitoring, and personalizing learning. This remarkable book introduces proven strategies for • providing effective feedback and assessment • relating independent reading response to the instructional core • fitting independent reading into the literacy block • using reading-response as prompts and for blended learning tasks • making thinking visible during independent reading • encouraging student choice among reading-response tasksIndependent Reading Inside the Box argues for classrooms that offer students choice among the very best material, as well as innovative ways to nurture the value of becoming lifelong readers.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While
Book SynopsisTen years ago, Reading Power was launched in an elementary school in Vancouver. Since then, it has evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction and has been implemented across Canada, the US, the UK, Sweden, and China. This ground-breaking approach showed teachers how to make thinking more visible to their students through explicit instruction of five comprehension strategies: connect, visualize, question, infer, and transform. Adrienne Gear has continued to reflect and refine her understanding of metacognition, comprehension instruction, and the reading power strategies. In this revised and expanded second edition of her popular book, Adrienne shares this new understanding and offers teachers • new thinking around metacognition and each of the Reading Power strategies • debunking of some “myths” that have grown around Reading Power • new and revised lessons and reproducible templates • an updated assessment rubric in student-friendly language • extended chapters on applying Reading Power to literature circles and home reading • new student samples to show teachers what to look for in student response • updated and expanded book lists for modeling demonstrations, encouraging practice, and nurturing independent readingReading Power is an ideal resource both for teachers familiar with this strategic approach to teaching reading and for those looking for new ways to connect thinking with reading.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Four Roles of the Numerate Learner: Effective
Book SynopsisEffective mathematics instruction and numeracy development are a major focus in classrooms today. The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner introduces a framework (sense maker, skill user, thought communicator, and critical interpreter) that supports an integrated approach to effective mathematics instruction.The book builds on educators’ understanding of how to effectively teach mathematics and borrows from successful frameworks used to teach literacy. It considers the mathematical practices that students need to learn to construct mathematical knowledge, become mathematicians, and simply do mathematics. The goal is to provide multiple entry points into a new world of mathematics instruction—a new way of thinking and learning where students engage in critical thinking about numeracy and act on this knowledge. The framework emphasizes student voice, with many opportunities for them to ask questions, pose problems, explore ideas, and change their thinking about mathematics and the way they see themselves as mathematicians.The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner shows new and experienced teachers how to foster and support daily practice that permits students to use their diverse identities to build their mathematical knowledge and incorporate their cultural experiences.Trade ReviewThe book is a solid guide for principals and other school leaders who wish to learn more about best practices in mathematics teaching and learning." - Professionally Speaking
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Substitute Teaching?: Everything You Need to Get
Book SynopsisThis easy-to-read, humorous survival guide for substitute teachers presents strategies to get students on your side and make classroom management easier for the whole day. Experienced and new teachers will discover quick, relationship-building activities that make the difference between a day of dodging spitballs and a day where students give you homemade bracelets.This time-saving resource includes specific lessons for all grades and subject areas. Ideal for a teacher getting started, an experienced teacher filling in, or a full-time classroom teacher looking for new ways to connect with students, this timely book offers what you need to survive and succeed.Trade ReviewCalled in at very short notice to primary/junior classrooms, substitute teachers are often at a loss for how and where to begin teaching a classroom of sometimes unruly and certainly unknown students. In this enthusiastic combination tool kit/ instruction manual, Yuill explores how substitute teachers can re-engage their original passion for making a difference in students’ lives and actually teach. To help set the stage, this highly readable guide for new or experienced teachers begins with relationship-building activities. It moves on to ready-to-use ideas for lessons (with companion reproducibles), along with a collection of strategies for managing your attitude and expectations, and dealing with typical problems. Solid classroom management techniques are examined as are practical curriculum plans. A unique component of the book is a brief description of typical student development, which takes a quick look at physical, social, emotional and academic characteristics at every primary grade level. Organized by grade, it is a helpful snapshot for teachers who are parachuted into teaching students with whom they have little or no experience and few reference points. Yuill outlines proactive job-finding techniques for the substitute teacher seeking a full-time position, the career-substitute teacher looking for the next assignment, or the retired teacher who may be seeking a different perspective on the classroom experience.Nadira Baksh, OCT, has recently completed a combined honours specialist in English and history and is a classroom volunteer with the Peel District School Board.Professionally Speaking (the official magazine of the Ontario College of Teachers)June 2017
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Powerful Readers: Thinking Strategies to Guide
Book SynopsisAt any age or grade level, powerful readers are those who are aware of their thinking as they read. The assumption is that high school students don't need to be taught how to read; but even if they can decode words and gain literal understanding, they often don't think deeply about what they are reading. Presenting a balance of theory and practical lessons, Powerful Readers demonstrates that instruction in the key strategies of connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and transforming can help students develop their reading skills and get more out of their work with fiction and nonfiction. Step-by-step lessons for introducing and using the strategies, connections to literary devices, and reading lists for each strategy are all part of this valuable resource.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Relationships Make the Difference: Connect With
Book SynopsisAs educators, it is important to take the time to get to know our students. Discovering what students are capable of and how they feel about things is the first step toward nurturing learning. Helping them develop their social-emotional skills sets the scene for academic growth and achievement. This book provides the scaffolding that teachers need to establish strong relationships with their students and create caring classroom communities that include relationships with parents, school administration and staff, and support specialists.Trade ReviewThroughout this resource, there are numerous useful ideas for classroom teachers. Trottier stresses a focus on active learning and academicsuccess, as well as the social and emotional growth of students in a supportive school community." - Myra Junyk, Resource Links
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Literacy 101: Questions and Answers That Meet the
Book SynopsisIn this new book, David Booth answers questions from real teachers about building skills in literacy, from phonics to comprehension, from simple exercises to rich reading materials. Drawing on more than 40 years of experience in education, David shares hard-learned lessons about what has – and hasn’t – worked for him. This is both a practical guide and a personal chronicle of growth in the classroom.Trade ReviewDavid Booth writes clearly and succinctly about what has and has not worked for him during his many decades of teaching. [...] He points out that while its foundation of reading and writing is always pivotal, it extends to many other arenas like drama, role-playing, art and other expressions of the written word." - Professionally Speaking
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Teaching with Humor, Compassion, and Conviction:
Book SynopsisHow can teachers make their literacy classrooms a place of joy? Fun, caring, and passion are the key to a shame-free, healthy classroom that nurtures students in mind, body, and spirit. Full of simple strategies and activities for building community, this practical book is committed to promoting strong literacy skills. It is full of simple strategies and activities for building mindful classrooms where students are free to speak with compassion, write with conviction, and read with joy.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Student Diversity: Teaching Strategies to Meet
Book SynopsisClassrooms are richer, more vibrant learning spaces when all students are included. Although a diverse group of students may pose challenges, teachers can overcome these challenges and invite all students to become engaged learners, both academically and socially.Student Diversity presents many examples of teachers working together to improve their teaching practice—from the primary and early years to middle school and the secondary years. It offers insights into all aspects of literacy instruction along with frameworks for successfully integrating mathematics and other subject areas into powerful learning opportunities.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Keep Growing: How to Encourage Students to
Book SynopsisGrowth mindset, grit, and self-regulation are terms that teachers and parents have been hearing a lot lately. These terms recognize that children can develop traits that will make them better able to face challenges and recover from setbacks. How do we bring these principles directly into the classroom to assist students, day in and day out? Keep Growing shows how teachers can provide opportunities for children to change their mindsets and foster their ownership of their behavior, their desire to tackle difficult tasks, their ability to push through challenging work, and their application of what they have learned.Trade ReviewKeep Growing examines the factors that encourage children to try new things and learn new skills. It explores how a “growth mindset” can enhance student success. Joey Mandel, teacher and educational consultant specializing in peer-to-peer relationships, focuses on promoting growth in the classroom, “How do we, as teachers, provide opportunities for children to change their mindsets? How do we foster and nurture their ability and desire to start hard tasks and push through them when they are stuck, to try something new when they do not know the answer, to build a sense of value for the effort and the completion of an activity over the success of it, and finally, to work on or add to something that they have finished in order to make it better?” (p. 7) The nine chapters in this resource rely heavily on research about growth mindsets. The first chapter, “Mindset for Growth,” explains that individuals with a growth mindset believe that they can learn new things with hard work, effort and positive self-talk. This belief affects attitudes, actions, and responses to challenges. In order to promote this kind of mindset, teachers need to explicitly teach learning skills and character traits such as empathy, organization and self-regulation. The second chapter outlines classroom organization to promote a growth mindset. Chapters 3-8 address specific characteristics of a growth mindset: responsibility, independence, self-regulation, perspective, initiative, and resilience. Each chapter explains the characteristic, applies it to the classroom environment and gives teachers strategies and activities in various subject areas such as language arts, media studies, mathematics, art and drama. The final chapter addresses the importance of family support to enhance student success through the home-school connection. Throughout this resource, there are numerous useful ideas for classroom teachers. Joey Mandel explains the connections between home, school, extra-curricular activities and future accomplishments. Helping students to build a growth mindset will help them succeed in all aspects of their future lives. There are descriptions of specific activities in various\ subject areas as well as blackline masters. This book provides a useful resource for both new and experienced teachers who want to improve the learning environment and learning outcomes for their students. Joey Mandel urges co-operation to promote a growth mindset, “Parents and teachers need to use tools and a common approach to support these children. We need to let them know that they can do more than they think they can, that it is okay just to try, and that the attempt is where the learning happens.” (p. 12)Thematic Links: Growth Mindsets; Classroom Environment; Responsibility; Independence; Initiative; Resilience; Home-School ConnectionMyra Junyk
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning: Finding the
Book SynopsisThis practical handbook shows teachers how to nurture a kindergarten learning environment in which children feel safe, comfortable, and able to take risks. It offers innovative ways to encourage children to explore, experiment, discover, solve problems, and freely interact with one another. Based on extensive classroom practice,Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning provides concrete suggestions for creating play-based learning in a culture of inquiry. The book discusses all aspects of oral language development, reading to and by children, shared and guided reading, reading to write and writing to learn, putting “play” into word play, celebrating diversity, and meeting the needs of all learners.Trade ReviewLori Jamison Rog and Donna-Lynn Galloway, two experienced educators and consultants, provide Kindergarten teachers with various tools to enhance play while building student reading, writing and learning skills through a supportive classroom environment. They begin their resource with Sheree Fitch’s beautiful poem, “First Day of School” which urges teachers to see each child’s individual strengths, “He wants to colour a picture./Help him to see that the colours he chooses,/The pictures he makes, are beautiful…/Before you ask him to pain the Sistine Chapel.” The Introduction outlines the history of Kindergarten, and the changing emphasis on play and explicit literacy instruction. The writers agree that the main emphasis in Kindergarten should be on, “What’s in the best interests of the children?” (p. 13) This resource is divided into eight chapters which explore various aspects of Kindergarten instruction: play-based learning, classroom organization, oral language, read-aloud, shared reading, guided reading, writing, word play and diversity. The first chapter, “Play-Based Learning in a Culture of Inquiry,” explains the connection between literacy learning and play. “Through play, children learn to co-operate and compromise, to lead and to follow.” (p. 15) The second chapter describes how the classroom environment can provide a strong support for collaborative learning. Subsequent chapters focus in on specific aspects of literacy and provide specific strategies and activities to engage students. In chapter 3, “Floating on A Sea of Talk: Oral Language Development,” the resource examines teacher talk, language games, phonological awareness, and vocabulary development. Book selection, home-school connections and classroom libraries are examined in other chapters. The authors provide a compilation of research on play-based learning and explicit literacy instruction in Kindergarten. There is definitely a need for instructional resources on Kindergarten because of the implementation of fullday Kindergarten in several Canadian provinces. While experienced teachers may have used many of the techniques described in this book, it could provide a useful tool to new teachers who need research-based instructional techniques. More detailed information on assessment would have been a good addition to this book. Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning compiles information and strategies which are available in various other resources, but having them in one place is useful. After all, Kindergarten is a very special year for young learners, “The routines we establish, the skills, strategies, and concepts we teach, and the expectations we hold will influence our students for the rest of their lives.” (p. 92) Thematic Links: Play-Based Learning; Explicit Literacy Instruction; Kindergarten Classrooms; Read Aloud; Shared/Guided Resource Links June 2017 Volume 22, Number 5
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd What's the Difference?: Building on Autism
Book SynopsisWhat’s the difference between teaching our students and our autistic students? Not much. This practical book argues that all students are unique. It focuses on integrating teaching autistic students into the teaching practice of the whole class. Based on extensive classroom experience, this highly readable book is full of anecdotes about engaged students growing in their learning. Lesson plans and checklists throughout the book help teachers get to know autistic students and help them with school work, emotional regulation, communication, socializing, and staying safe. This timely book champions getting rid of labels so teachers can know every student as an individual.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Managing Student Behavior: How to Identify,
Book SynopsisManaging Student Behavior provides an in-depth understanding of student behavior, including identifying factors that trigger and maintain negative, disruptive actions and attitudes. It provides an overview of appropriate reinforcement, which is fundamental in making positive behavior changes, and highlights many effective, evidence-based strategies that support permanent change. Real-life examples and anecdotes throughout the book illustrate a variety of classroom challenges, as well as strategies used to support positive change in each scenario. The author uses a conversational approach to connect with readers and provide a non-threatening environment in which to learn the basics of behavior and behavioral change.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Mathematizing Student Thinking: Connecting
Book SynopsisHow can you broaden student thinking and help them develop their independence and confidence as problem solvers? Real-life problems are a remarkable tool to stretch student thinking and help them develop a deeper understanding of mathematics and its role in everyday life. Rather than using textbook exercises, the book argues that solving real-world problems promotes flexibility and encourages students to adjust and grow their thinking. It inspires them to consider alternatives and apply math in authentic contexts. You will find practical ways to engage students in critical thinking, develop their independence, and make connections with the world.
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake: How Can
Book SynopsisStop the Hate for Goodness Sake shows teachers how to confront racism and disrupt discrimination in order to deepen students’ understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Background information, statistics, and reports on incidents of hate will help students consider ethical and moral behavior. Forty step-by-step lessons involve discussion, oral and written narratives, case studies, assumption charts, and more. This thoughtful examination of today’s world will help teachers encourage reflection, foster inclusion, and inspire students to take action. This in-depth guide will show teachers of 8- to 14-year-olds how to start and manage important conversations that will lead to change.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Defining HateChapter 2: Recognizing HateChapter 3:Dismantling Hate in SchoolsChapter 4: Ways to Erase HateChapter 5: Confronting the Issue of BullyingChapter 6: Creating a Safer School Culture for AllChapter 7: Ten Tips for Disrupting Hate
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Pembroke Publishing Ltd Active Reading Classrooms: Strategies that build
Book SynopsisThis practical book invites teachers to investigate different strategies to teach both whole-class and individual intervention lessons in reading. The book strives to take students beyond the simple view of reading and make them active users of language who make connections among the elements that science tells us are part of the reading process. Teachers will find strategies focused on self-regulation, word recognition, and language comprehension, along with various ways to connect and strengthen each aspect of reading. The lessons address new research about the complexities of reading and focus on scaffolding and differentiating learning for students in elementary classrooms.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Active View of Reading 2. Active Self-Regulation 3. Word Recognition 4. Language Comprehension 5. Bridging Processes That Build Word Recognition and Language Comprehension 6. Bringing It All Together in the Classroom Reproducibles Resources Index
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International Society for Technology in Education Moviemaking in the Classroom: Lifting Student
Book SynopsisWritten by an award-winning classroom teacher with years of experience integrating moviemaking into curriculum, this book offers quick-start lesson plans for any content area and grade level, helping students amplify their voices and effect change through moviemaking.Our world hinges on storytelling and the ways in which stories can be told are always evolving. For students to become future-ready, confident creators of original content, they need opportunities to share their stories. Moviemaking helps students showcase their learning, process their lives and connect with others in a meaningful way.Moviemaking in the Classroom breaks down the process of digital storytelling to help teachers plan efficient and effective instructional sequences. The book provides guidance on how to purposefully build visual and audio literacy skills to improve student work and increase student efficacy in the creative process. Also included are practical suggestions for removing barriers from the storytelling process, such as how to provide more opportunities for students to tell their stories during a single academic year.This book: Shows teachers how to create efficient and effective lesson sequences with digital storytelling in mind, particularly in a blended learning environment. Supports teachers who are new to digital storytelling by showing the impact and importance of providing students with multiple opportunities to tell their stories. Offers project ideas for teachers already implementing digital storytelling in their classes and shows how to streamline workflow and improve their professional practice. Supports distance and remote learning through a full chapter on strategies for applying these practices to a distance learning environment. Fosters diversity, inclusion and student empowerment by showcasing student examples on topics including racism, death and illness, immigration, gun violence and pollution. This book provides insight, inspiration and practical ideas to empower teachers of all content areas to implement moviemaking projects with their students using best practices.
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Stenhouse Publishers Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information
Book SynopsisWriting nonfiction represents a big step for most students, yet when they try to create a report or persuasive essay, they are often anxious and frustrated. JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher created Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing, K-8 to help teachers bring the passion from student writing while helping students scaffold their ideas in this challenging genre. The authors divided this book into grade-specific sections for K-2, 3-4, and middle school (grades 5-8) students. These divisions reflect various differences between emerging, competent, and fluent writers. In each section you'll find a generous collection of craft lessons directed at the genre that's most appropriate for that particular age. In the K-2 section, for example, a number of craft lessons focus on the all-about or concept book. In the 3-4 section there are several lessons on biography. In the 5-8 section a series of lessons addresses expository writing. Throughout the book each of the 80 lessons is presented on a single page in an easy-to-read format. Every lesson features three teaching guidelines: Discussion --A brief look at the reasons for teaching the particular element of craft specifically in a nonfiction context. How to Teach It --Concrete language showing exactly how a teacher might bring this craft element to students in writing conferences or a small-group setting. Resource Material --Specific book or text referred to in the craft lesson including trade books, or a piece of student writing in the Appendixes. This book will help students breathe voice into lifeless "dump-truck" writing and improve their nonfiction writing by making it clearer, more authoritative, and more organized. Nonfiction Craft Lessons gives teachers a wealth of practical strategies to help students grow into strong writers as they explore and explain the world around them.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Setting the Table for Nonfiction Craft; Adorning the Table: Nonfiction Literature for Students; Nonfiction Craft Lessons K–2; Nonfiction Craft Lessons 3–4; Nonfiction Craft Lessons 5–8; Questions and Answers
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Stenhouse Publishers Day One and Beyond: Practical Matters for New
Book SynopsisYour teacher training may have provided sound theory and a collection of instructional techniques, but it's often the practical details that can make day-to-day survival difficult in your first days, weeks, and years of teaching. For new teachers or those just new to the middle-school environment, here is an invaluable resource from the author of Meet Me in the Middle that will help you walk in the door prepared to teach. Oriented toward the unique experience of teaching grades 5 through 9, Day One and Beyond delivers proven best practices along with often-humorous observations that provide a window into the middle school environment. Based on his many years of research and experience in the middle school classroom, Rick offers frontline advice on: practical survival matters, such as what to do the first day and week, setting up the grade book and other record keeping, and what to do if you only have one computer in the classroom;classroom management, including discipline, getting students' attention, and roving classrooms;social issues, like the unique nature of middle-level students, relating to students, and positive relations with parents;professional concerns, from collegiality with teammates to professional resources all middle-level teachers should have.Content and instruction are important, but so are the practical matters that enable sound teaching practice. Day One and Beyond shows middle-level teachers how to manage the physical and emotional aspects of their unique environment so they can do what they've been trained to do: successfully teach young adolescents.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: The Unique Nature of Middle School Teaching; 2: What to Do on the First Day and in the First Week; 3: Discipline; 4: The Physical Classroom; 5: Grade Books, Tardies, Absences, and Other Record Keeping; 6: Grouping; 7: Teaming; 8: Dealing with Homework; 9: Parents; 10: Substitute-Teacher Plans; 11: Our Own Professional Development; 12: Relating to Students
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Stenhouse Publishers Reality Checks: Teaching Reading Comprehension
Book SynopsisTeaching comprehension with informational texts is a critical component of any reading program and one that many children struggle with as they progress through their schooling. Nonfiction can be overwhelming to young readers, presenting them with complex vocabulary and a new density of information that may combine text, diagrams, pictures, captions, and other devices.Reality Checks: Teaching Reading Comprehension with Non-Fiction K-5 offers insights into why children struggle when faced with informational reading, and practical concepts, skills, and strategies that help them navigate nonfiction successfully.In this book, Tony Stead provides wonderful ways to enhance children's understanding and engagement when reading for information. He outlines practical approaches to ensure all children can become confident and competent readers of nonfiction. Part one examines effective ways to teach children how to extract the information that is explicitly stated in a text. Covered are strategies such as using prior knowledge, retelling, locating specific information, and the role of nonfiction read-alouds. Part two explores interpreting information, including making connections between the text, the reader, and the outside world, making inferences and making revisions to inferences based on reflection. Part three looks at evaluating information, assisting children in developing critical reading skills, differentiating fact from opinion, locating author bias, and identifying techniques writers use to persuade readers' thinking. Part four offers an array of practical ways to reinforce and extend children's nonfiction reading skills, including working with visual information such as maps and diagrams. It also provides pre-and -post-assessment strategies, procedures for monitoring progress, curriculum planning ideas, and instruction on guided reading.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Comprehending Nonfiction: The Real Story; Part 1: Developing Literal Understandings; Chapter 2: Getting the Facts; Chapter 3: The Art of Retelling; Chapter 4: Dealing with Unknown Vocabulary and Concepts; Part 2: Developing Interpretive Understandings; Chapter 5: Inferring; Chapter 6: Making Connections; Part 3: Developing Evaluative Understandings; Chapter 7: Reading Between the Words; Chapter 8: All Those in Favor? Explorations in the Early Years; Part 4: Completing the Picture; Chapter 9: Visual Literacy: Comprehension Beyond Words; Chapter 10: Guided Reading and Assessment; Chapter 11: Providing a Framework for Teaching and Learning
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Stenhouse Publishers Words Came Down!: English Language Learners Read,
Book SynopsisAs teachers everywhere find more and more students with limited English in their classes, many are asking: How can I include ELL students in every aspect of the day? The Words Came Down!: English Language Learners Read, Write, and Talk Across the Curriculum, K-2 oral language is emphasized in a continuum from teacher modeling and demonstration to situations in which student-to-student communication is essential. The authors show that when children's attempts at communicating are accepted and celebrated, they will learn to communicate with each other comfortably and spontaneously whether on the playground or working on a science experiment. Beginning with designing a classroom that welcomes students and creates appropriate conditions for learning, Emelie Parker and Tess Pardini go on to detail a workshop format for reading, writing and content-area studies. The workshop structure allows teachers to differentiate instruction to include all students, and affords students ample opportunities to collaborate with others as they learn to speak, read, write, and comprehend while also engaging in active learning of the curriculum. The authors provide numerous examples of ways that teachers can become proficient in knowing each child and orchestrating instruction to meet individual needs. In addition, this helpful guide offers a variety of approaches to assessment, and demonstrates the importance of engaging families as partners in learning English and content.Table of ContentsFoundations; 1: Our School; 2: Building Community; 3: Workshop; Workshops; 4: Writing Workshop; 5: Reading Workshop; 6: Social Studies Workshop; 7: Math Workshop; 8: Science Workshop
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Stenhouse Publishers Teaching Adolescent Writers
Book SynopsisIn an increasingly demanding world of literacy, it has become critical that students know how to write effectively. From the requirements of standardized tests to those of the wired workplace, the ability to write well, once a luxury, has become a necessity. Many students are leaving school without the necessary writing practice and skills needed to compete in a complex and fast-moving Information Age. Unless we teach them how to run with it, they are in danger of being run over by a stampede—a literacy stampede. InTeaching Adolescent Writers , Kelly Gallagher shows how students can be taught to write effectively. Gallagher shares a number of classroom-tested strategies that enable teachers to: Understand the importance of teaching writing and how to motivate young writers Show how modeling from both the teacher and real-world texts builds young writers Provide choice of what to write, which helps elevate adolescent writing, and how to fit it into a rigorous curriculum Help students recognize the importance of purpose and audience Assess essays in ways that drive better writing performance. Infused with humor and illuminating anecdotes, Gallagher draws on his classroom experiences and work as co-director of a regional writing project to offer teachers both practical ways to incorporate writing instruction into their day and compelling reasons to do so.Trade Review"Grounded in the philosophy of teaching writing as a process, Gallagher's book offers a wealth of ideas for middle and high school writing teachers. This book will take its place alongside other well-thumbed titles on the writing teacher’s bookshelf." - Education Review "Infused with humor and enhanced with illustrative anecdotes, Teaching Adolescent Writers is an ideal addition to college and university curriculums for aspiring English teachers." - Midwest Book ReviewTable of Contents1: Running with the Literacy Stampede; 2: Overcoming “The Neglected ‘R’”: Establishing a Time and a Place to Write; 3: Beyond the Grecian Urn: The Teacher as a Writing Model; 4: Elevating Student Writing: Using Real-World Models; 5: Beyond Fake Writing: The Power of Choice; 6: The Importance of Purpose and Audience; 7: Using Assessment to Drive Better Student Writing; A Closing Thought: The Stampede Is Upon Us
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Stenhouse Publishers Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation
Book SynopsisAuthor Debbie Diller turns her attention to small reading groups and the teacher's role in small-group instruction. Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation for All grapples with difficult questions regarding small-group instruction in elementary classrooms such as: How do I find the time? How can I be more organized? How do I form groups? How can I differentiate to meet the needs of all of my students? Structured around the five essential reading elements - comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary - the book provides practical tips, sample lessons, lesson plans and templates, suggestions for related literacy work stations, and connections to whole-group instruction. In addition to ideas to use immediately in the classroom, Diller provides an overview of relevant research and reflection questions for professional conversations. Trade Review"This book is a must-have for the vast majority of teachers interested in developing and honing their skills at delivering differentiated instruction." - Education Review "An in-depth resource packed with tips, tricks and techniques." - Midwest Book ReviewTable of Contents1. Time 2. Organizing 3. Grouping 4. Comprehension 5. Fluency 6. Phonemic Awareness 7. Phonics 8. Vocabulary
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Stenhouse Publishers Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our
Book SynopsisIn the early grades, talking and drawing can provide children with a natural pathway to writing, yet these components are often overlooked. In Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers , authors Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe invite readers to join them in classrooms where they listen, watch, and talk with children, then use what they learn to create lessons designed to meet children where they are and lead them into the world of writing. The authors make a case for a broader definition of writing, advocating for formal storytelling sessions, in which children tell about what they know, and for focused sketching sessions so that budding writers learn how to observe more carefully.The book's lessons are organized by topic and include oral storytelling, drawing, writing words, assessment, introducing booklets, and moving writers forward. Based on the authors' work in urban kindergarten and first-grade classes, the essence and structure of many of the lessons lend themselves to adaptation through fifth grade. The lessons follow a consistent format: What's going on in the classroom? What do children need to learn next? Materials needed to teach the lesson Language used in each lesson Reasons behind why certain books are chosen and suggestions for additional children’s books The authors show the thinking behind their teaching decisions and provide a way to look at and assess children's writing, giving us much more than a book of lessons; they present a vision of what beginning writing can look and sound like. Perhaps most powerfully, they give us examples of the language they use with children that reveal a genuine respect for and trust in children as learners.Trade Review"What a fabulous resource for kindergarten teachers and those interested in valuing the language of drawing further." - Enjoy and Embrace Learning blogTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Storytelling; Chapter 2: The Drawing & Writing Book; Chapter 3: Drawing; Chapter 4: The Craft of Drawing; Chapter 5: Writing Words; Chapter 6: Assessment; Chapter 7: Introducing Booklets; Chapter 8: Moving Writers Forward; Chapter 9: One Teacher, One Classroom; Closing Thoughts
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Stenhouse Publishers Differentiation: From Planning to Practice,
Book SynopsisDifferentiation: From Planning to Practice , author Rick Wormeli provides an overview of the cognitive science behind differentiation. As a teacher, you know a one-size-fits-all education doesn't work; students are more diverse than ever. In his book, Wormeli gives a step-by-step process to create a fully crafted differentiation lesson and shows the necessary planning for an effective lesson design for diverse classrooms.Wormeli demonstrates how to weave common and novel differentiation strategies into all subjects and offers clear advice about what to do when things don't go as expected. Based on nearly thirty years of experience as a teacher and instructional coach, his thoughtful and imaginative classroom accommodations will help teachers succeed with advanced students, struggling students, English language learners, and students across the multiple intelligences spectrum. Differentiation provides a practice guide to create lessons that will prepare students for real life success and build their critical thinking skills in the process.Trade Review"An accessible guide to a complex issue." - Education ReviewTable of ContentsChapter 1: Developing a Common Frame of Reference; Chapter 2: A Walk-Through of a Differentiated Lesson; Chapter 3: Helpful Structures and Strategies for the Differentiated Class; Chapter 4: Cognitive Science Structures and Tips That Help Us Differentiate; Chapter 5: Twelve Samples of Differentiated Learning Experiences from Multiple Subjects; A Final Word: Three Tips to Begin the Journey
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Stenhouse Publishers Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop
Book SynopsisEditing is often seen as one item on a list of steps in the writing process, usually put somewhere near the end, and often completely crowded out of writer' s workshop. Too many times daily editing lessons happen in a vacuum, with no relationship to what students are writing. In Everyday Editing , Jeff Anderson asks teachers to reflect on what sort of message this approach sends to students. Does it tell them that editing and revision are meaningful parts of the writing process, or just a hunt for errors with a 50/50 chance of getting it right,comma or no comma? Instead of rehearsing errors and drilling students on what' s wrong with a sentence, Jeff invites students to look carefully at their writing along with mentor texts, and to think about how punctuation, grammar, and style can be best used to hone and communicate meaning. Written in Jeff' s characteristically witty style, this refreshing and practical guide offers an overview of his approach to editing within the writing workshop as well as ten detailed sets of lessons covering everything from apostrophes to serial commas. These lessons can be used throughout the year to replace Daily Oral Language or error-based editing strategies with a more effective method for improving student writing.Trade Review"The genius of Anderson's book is in demonstrating how to restructure lessons into student-centered inquiries." - Teacher Learners Network "An incredible journey that virtually electrifies editing instruction. Don’t miss this book." - Six Traits Gurus blogTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: What Is Everyday Editing?; Chapter 1: What Is Editing Instruction?; Chapter 2: Why Invite Students into an Editing Process?; Chapter 3: What Do Editing Invitations Look Like in the Classroom?; Part II: Everyday Editing Invitations: 10 Lesson Sets; Serial Comma 1: Did You Make the List? Teaching the Serial Comma; Colons 2: Here It Comes: Teaching Colons; Capitalization 3: Capitalize on This: Teaching Capitalization; Apostrophes 4: Possession or Contraction— You Be the Judge: Teaching Apostrophes; Simple Sentences 5: Is It or Isn't It? Teaching Simple Sentences; Verb Choice 6: To Be or Not to Be: Teaching Verb Choice; 7: Let's Make It an Appositive Experience: Teaching Appositives; 8: Give Me a Break: Teaching Paragraphs; 9: Do We Have Chemistry? Teaching Compound Sentences; 10: What's Up? Teaching Dialogue; An Invitation for You: Keep the Conversation Flowing
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Stenhouse Publishers Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning: Using the Outdoors
Book SynopsisSchoolyard-Enhanced Learning: Using the Outdoors as an Instructional Tool K-8' shows how the school groundsregardless of whether your school is in an urban, suburban, or rural settingcan become an enriching extension of the classroom. In this comprehensive handbook, Herb Broda blends theory and practice, providing readers with practical suggestions and teacher-tested activities for using the most powerful audio-visual tool availablethe outdoors. Emphasizing the practical, this innovative book offers teachers step-by-step guidance to help ensure success when they take a class outside. It provides: Background that helps present the case for outdoor learning: educational theory that supports the concept; overview of the terminology; research on the benefits related to student achievement; alignment of outdoor learning with current teaching practices. Ideas for making the schoolyard an effective outdoor classroom: the planning process; enhancing and maintaining the site; developing gardens and attracting wildlife; finding community resources and funding. Advice on working with a class outdoors: garnering administrative and parental support; considerations before going out; making the most of your outdoor time; using GPS as an educational tool; building on the outdoor experience back in the classroom. An array of proven activities that utilize the schoolyard: activities related to specific subject areas; activities that teach process skills; activities that encourage initiative and build community.At a time when children' s natural curiosity about the outdoors is eclipsed by the demands of busy schedules and the ever-present glow of video screens, schools may be the only place where they are encouraged to interact with nature. Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning can help teachers unlock the powerful learning experiences that exist just beyond the classroom door.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning: A Change of Pace and Place; Chapter 2: Making the School Grounds an Outdoor Classroom; Chapter 3: Taking Your Class Outside: The Nuts and Bolts; Chapter 4: Developing Process Skills in an Engaging Environment; Chapter 5: Teaching Content-Area Concepts Outdoors; Chapter 6: Beyond the Schoolyard; Postscript
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Stenhouse Publishers So What Do They Really Know?: Assessment That
Book SynopsisSo What Do They Really Know? Cris Tovani explores the complex issue of monitoring, assessing, and grading students' thinking and performance with fairness and fidelity. Like all teachers, Cris struggles to balance her student-centered instruction with school system mandates. Her recommendations are realistic and practical; she understands that what isn't manageable isn't sustainable. Cris describes the systems and structure she uses in her own classroom and shows teachers how to use assessments to monitor student growth and provide targeted feedback that enables students to master content goals. She also shares ways to bring students into the assessment cycle so they can monitor their own learning, maximizing motivation and engagement. So What Do They Really Know? includes a wealth of information: Lessons from Cris's classroomTemplates showing how teachers can use the workshop model to assess and differentiate instructionStudent work, including samples from linguistically diverse learners, struggling readers, and college-bound seniorsAnchor charts of student thinkingIdeas on how to give feedbackGuidelines that explain how conferring is different from monitoringSuggestions for assessing learning and differentiating instruction during conferencesAdvice for managing ongoing assessmentCris's willingness to share her own struggles continues to be a hallmark of her work. Teachers will recognize their own students and the challenges they face as they join Cris on the journey to figure out how to raise student achievement.Trade Review"Tovani provides an extensive list of formative assessment ideas so that teachers can gather a range of data and discover what their students really know." - Professionally SpeakingTable of ContentsChapter 1: Assessment: It Doesn't Have to Be the Enemy; Chapter 2: Let's Get Personal; Chapter 3: Game-Time Assessment; Chapter 4: Off the Field and Into the Classroom; Chapter 5: Annotations: A Trustworthy Source of Data; Chapter 6: Feedback That Fortifies; Chapter 7: Grading Is Killing Me; Coda: Break the Fake
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Stenhouse Publishers Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy
Book SynopsisLiteracy in the twenty-first century means more than just reading and writing. Today's students must learn how to interpret and communicate information through a variety of digital and print-based media formats, using imagery, online applications, audio, video, and traditional texts.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter One: Developing Intelligent Vision; Chapter Two: Learning by Leaps and Layers; Chapter three: Reshowing and Retelling Stories; Chapter Four: Research: The Fourth R; Chapter Five: Research Revealed: The Production Stage; Epilogue
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Stenhouse Publishers Leading and Learning: Effective School Leadership
Book SynopsisFaced with a vast list of roles and responsibilities and answering to a broad array of stakeholders, school administrators can feel like they must constantly play the role of invincible superhero. Rarely do they have the opportunity to engage in the kind of reflection, inquiry, and collegial sharing that is so effective in teacher professional development. In Leading and Learning , Fred Brill draws on personal narratives from new and experienced school administrators to examine common themes, concerns, successes, and failures. From these stories, practices and protocols emerge to help administrators navigate the complexity of their jobs, and better manage their own professional development. Leading and Learning examines the administrative roles of school leaders from enforcer to system-builder, to instructional leader as well as the psychological, emotional aspects of the position, and the impact of school culture. Fred shares research on the success and structures of professional learning communities and shows how the power of combining PLCs with the practice of reflective storytelling results in better school leadership and professional growth. Woven throughout the book are stories from over 260 interviews with school administrators that will energize readers while generating chuckles and knowing nods. The book' s goal is to provide a model that inspires change in schools and in administrator induction programs. By offering a detailed analysis of effective (and ineffective) leadership, Leading and Learning gives readers a new method for making decisions, solving problems, and working to get things done in their school communities. And by demonstrating the power of reflective storytelling and collaborative learning, it provides school leaders with an effective process for more clearly translating belief into action.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: The Many Hats Worn by the School Leader; Chapter 1: The Reflective Storytelling Process; Chapter 2: The School Leader as Enforcer; Chapter 3: The School Leader as System Builder; Chapter 4: The School Leader as Equity Promoter; Chapter 5: The School Administrator as Instructional Leader; Part II: School Leadership: The Intersection of Decisions, Values, and Emotions; Chapter 6: Values in School Leadership:; Chapter 7: The School Leader as Principal Decision Maker: A Field of Dreams, Deliberations, and Derailments; Chapter 8: The School Leader as Human Pincushion:; Chapter 9: Inhabiting the Role of School Leader:; Afterword
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Stenhouse Publishers Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and
Book SynopsisRead-i-cide: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline, poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment. In this provocative book Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It , author and teacher Kelly Gallagher suggests it is time to recognize a new and significant contributor to the death of reading: our schools. Readicide , Gallagher argues that American schools are actively (though unwittingly) furthering the decline of reading. Specifically, he contends that the standard instructional practices used in most schools are killing reading by:Valuing standardized testing over the development of lifelong readersMandating breadth over depth in instructionRequiring students to read difficult texts without proper instructional support and insisting students focus on academic textsIgnoring the importance of developing recreational readingLosing sight of authentic instruction in the looming shadow of political pressuresReadicide provides teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators with specific steps to reverse the downward spiral in reading-;steps that will help prevent the loss of another generation of readers.Trade Review"Those with a vested interest in the education of American youth--in other words, everyone who has reached the age of reason--should read this book and share it with others." - American School Board Journal "Rather than dwelling on the problem, Gallagher centers on explaining concrete ways schools can improve literature teaching, focusing on comprehension and producing lifelong readers." - Catholic Library World "Readicide is an intriguing look at many possible solutions to the problem of the decline of reading in American schools." - Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; chapter 1: The Elephant in the Room; chapter 2: Endangered Minds; chapter 3: Avoiding the Tsunami; chapter 4: Finding the “Sweet Spot” of Instruction; chapter 5: Ending Readicide
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Stenhouse Publishers No More I'm Done! : Fostering Independent
Book SynopsisDisregarding the false notion that writing instruction in the primary grades needs to be mostly teacher directed, Jennifer Jacobson shows teachers how to develop a primary writer' s workshop that helps nurture independent, engaged writers. No More I' m Done! demonstrates how to create a more productive, engaging, and rewarding writer' s workshop. Jennifer guides teachers from creating a supportive classroom environment through establishing effective routines; shows teachers how to set up a writer' s workshop; and provides an entire year of developmentally appropriate mini-lessons that build confidence and, ultimately, independence.Trade Review"A book that is nothing short of an intense professional development package. Readers will find that Jacobson's friendly and articulate voice conveys just enough confidence to convince you that the suggested instructional strategies will lead to success over time, but not so much authority as to make you feel overwhelmed by the need to follow every suggestion she offers." - Education Review "Ms Jacobson’s concepts seemed revolutionary to me: imagine children begging for more than an hour of writing time every day. Her book was full of passion, examples from children’s clever stories and paragraphs, and inspiration for the parent or teacher hoping to inspire kids in writing." - Rebecca Reads blogTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Letting Go: Teacher-Directed Writing Versus Writer's Workshop; Chapter 2: Spaces That Support Independence; Chapter 3: Routines That Support Independence; Chapter 4: Mini-Lessons That Build Independence; Chapter 5: A Year of Mini-Lessons for Growing Writers; Chapter 6: The Secret to Independence: A Desire to Write
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Stenhouse Publishers Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer? :
Book SynopsisEvery major measure of students' historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach historylecture and memorization. Over the last fifteen years, Bruce has refined a method of teaching history that mirrors the process used by historians, where students are taught to ask questions of evidence and develop historical explanations. And now in his new book 'Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer? he shows teachers how to successfully implement his methods in the classroom. Students may think they want to be given the answer. Yet, when they are actively engaged in investigating the pastthe way professional historians dothey find that history class is not about the boring memorization of names, dates, and facts. Instead, it's challenging fun. Historical study that centers on a question, where students gather a variety of historical sources and then develop and defend their answers to that question, allows students to become actual historians immersed in an interpretive study of the past. Each chapter focuses on a key concept in understanding history and then offers a sample unit on how the concept can be taught. Readers will learn about the following:, Exploring Text, Subtext, and Context: President Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal, Chronological Thinking and Causality: The Rail Strike of 1877, Multiple Perspectives: The Bonus March of 1932, Continuity and Change Over Time: Custer's Last Stand, Historical Significance: The Civil Rights Movement, Historical Empathy: The Truman-MacArthur Debate By the end of the book, teachers will have learned how to teach history via a lens of interpretive questions and interrogative evidence that allows both student and teacher to develop evidence-based answers to history's greatest questions.Trade Review"What the book intends to do, and what is does well, is provide a 'road map' for those who wish to teach historical thinking skills in the secondary classroom. Lesh has written a valuable book for history teachers at the secondary level." - The History Teacher "Teachers are shown how to teach history using interpretive questions and interrogative evidence in this exciting alternative to traditional history paths, recommended for any educator's collection." - Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Reinventing My Classroom; Chapter 2: Introducing Historical Thinking; Chapter 3: Text, Subtext, and Context; Chapter 4: Using the Rail Strike of 1877 to Teach Chronological Thinking and Causality; Chapter 5: “Revolution in the Air”; Chapter 6: Continuity and Change over Time; Chapter 7: Long or Short?; Chapter 8: Trying on the Shoes of Historical Actors; Chapter 9: “How Am I Supposed to Do This Every Day?”; Chapter 10: Overcoming the Barrier to Change; Afterword
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Stenhouse Publishers Readers Writing: Strategy Lessons for Responding
Book SynopsisWhen faced with a blank page in their readers' notebooks, students often fall back on what is familiar: summarizing. Despite our best efforts to model through comprehension strategies what good readers do, many students struggle to transfer this knowledge and make it their own when writing independently about books. Readers Writing,' Elizabeth Hale offers ninety-one practical lessons that show teachers how students of all ability levels can use readers' notebooks to think critically,' on their own,' one step at a time. Each of the lessons uses a fiction or nonfiction book to address a comprehension strategyquestioning, connecting, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating, visualizing, or monitoringby showing students one specific way they can write about their thinking. Each lesson also provides an example of how to model the strategy. All of the lessons follow a similar format with five componentsName It, Why Do It?, Model It, Try It, and Share Itand include time for students to actively process what they learn by talking about and trying out the strategy in their readers' notebooks. Elizabeth also provides suggestions for supporting student independence, managing independent writing time, scaffolding comprehension of nonfiction texts as well as assessing and conferencing with readers' notebooks. Helpful appendices include a table that illustrates how each lesson aligns with the Common Core State Standards and a list of additional titles that can be used to demonstrate each of the ninety-one lessons. ' ' ' ' ' Readers Writing' gives teachers a way to engage all children with readers' notebooks, to learn the language of thinking, one strategy at a time, and to become lifelong readers who can think and write critically on their own.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Beyond the Book Report; Chapter 2: A Strategy Lesson; Chapter 3: Lessons for Narrative Text; Chapter 4: Comprehension of Nonfiction Text; Chapter 5: Lessons for Nonfiction Text; Chapter 6: Supporting Independence; Chapter 7: Noticing Comprehension Strategies in Student Writing; Chapter 8: Conferring with Reader's Notebooks; Chapter 9: Assessment and Final Thoughts
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Stenhouse Publishers Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay
Book SynopsisLove it or hate it, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today. But have you ever actually seen five-paragraph essays outside of school walls? Have you ever found it in business writing, journalism, nonfiction, or any other genres that exist in the real world? Kimberly Hill Campbell and Kristi Latimer reviewed the research on the effectiveness of the form as a teaching tool and discovered that the research does not support the five-paragraph formula. In fact, research shows that the formula restricts creativity, emphasizes structure rather than content, does not improve standardized test scores, inadequately prepares students for college writing, and results in vapid writing. In Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay, Kimberly and Kristi show you how to reclaim the literary essay and create a program that encourages thoughtful writing in response to literature. They provide numerous strategies that stimulate student thinking, value unique insight, and encourage lively, personal writing, including the following: Close reading (which is the basis for writing about literature) Low-stakes writing options that support students' thinking as they read Collaboration in support of discussion, debate, and organizational structures that support writing as exploration A focus on students' writing process as foundational to content development and structure The use of model texts to write in the form of the literature students are reading and analyzingThe goal of reading and writing about literature is to push and challenge our students' thinking. We want students to know that their writing can convey something important: a unique view to share, defend, prove, delight, discover, and inspire. If we want our students to be more engaged, skilled writers, we need to move beyond the five-paragraph essay.Trade Review"Teachers discouraged by the lack of original thought and creativity in student writing will value Campbell and Latimer’s insightful book for providing a process, plan and alternative writing formats that breathe life back into student writing." - MiddleWeb "It provides keys to producing creative writing outside the formula box, and is a fine primer for any educator's collection." - Midwest Book Review "They offer strategies and suggestions for facilitating thoughtful reading, creative writing, and critical thinking.” - Book NewsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Combating Formulaic Writing; Chapter 2: Establishing a Routine of Thoughtful Reading and Writing; Chapter 3: Reading Like a Writer; Chapter 4: Writing and Discussion in Support of Thinking; Chapter 5: Writing to explore; Chapter 6: Writing as an authority; Chapter 7: Writing with Mentors
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Stenhouse Publishers Well Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students
Book SynopsisAll teachers at all grade levels in all subjects have speaking assignments for students, but many teachers believe they don't know how to teach speaking, and many even fear public speaking themselves. In his new book, Well Spoken, veteran teacher and education consultant Erik Palmer shares the art of teaching speaking in any classroom. Teachers will find thoughtful and engaging strategies for integrating speaking skills throughout the curriculum. Palmer stresses the essential elements of all effective oral communication, including:, Building a Speech: Audience, Content, Organization, Visual Aids, and Appearance, Performing a Speech: Poise, Voice, Life, Eye Contact, Gestures, and Speed, Evaluating a Speech: Creating Effective Rubrics,' Guiding Students to Excellence Well Spoken contains a framework for understanding the skills involved in all effective oral communication, offers practical steps and lesson ideas that any teacher needs to successfully teach speaking in a variety of situationsfrom classroom discussions to' formal presentationsand includes a set of tools for studentsfrom how to grab the audience's attention to how to use emphatic hand gestures and adjust speed for effect. Discover why, year after year, students returned to Palmer's classroom to thank him for teaching them how to be well spoken. You may find, after reading this book, that you have become a better speaker, too.Trade Review"This is the most comprehensive book, written with delightful style and humor and above all with details that are specific and instructive. Well Spoken has the answers." - The Gifted Education Communicator "A must for any educator who values public speaking and wants to impart that value on to their students." - Library Bookwatch "Palmer's new book is perhaps the best resource for teachers of any content area. It is concise, clear, and organized, with practical ideas and suggestions that can easily be implemented into any classroom, not just English classrooms." - Seeking Serenity in Chaos blog "I have already seen an improvement based on his ideas for building a speech that enhanced what I was already doing." - Snapshots of Mrs. V blog "The teaching strategies and curriculum laid out in Well Spoken are very clear and could easily be adapted to any age level." - EducationWorld.comTable of ContentsPart I: The Art of Public Speaking; Chapter 1: Can We Talk?; Chapter 2: Effective Communication; Part II: Building a Speech; Chapter 3: Audience: Understanding the Listeners; Chapter 4: Content: Making the Message Valuable; Chapter 5: Organization: Making the Speech Easy to Follow; Chapter 6: Visual Aids: Enhancing the Words; Chapter 7: Appearance: Dressing for the Occasion; Part III: Performing a Speech; Chapter 8: Poise: Appearing Calm and Confident; Chapter 9: Voice: Making Every Word Heard; Chapter 10: Life: Putting Passion into the Voice; Chapter 11: Chapter 11: Eye Contact: Engaging Each Listener; Chapter 12: Gestures: Matching Motions to Words; Chapter 13: Speed: Pacing for a Powerful Performance; Part IV: Putting Theory into Practice; Chapter 14: Every Day Through the End of the Year; Chapter 15: Evaluating Speeches; Chapter 16: Speaking Activities Across the Curriculum
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Stenhouse Publishers Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing
Book SynopsisIn Write Like This: Teaching Real World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts, author and teacher Kelly Gallagher recognizes that writing well starts with teaching students WHY they should write. He believes we need to move beyond the state standards by introducing young writers to real-world discourses and provide them with authentic texts to influence and develop life-long skills. Each chapter focuses on a specific writing purpose: Express and Reflect: View life experiences in reverse to move forward Inform and Explain: State a point and purpose with information to support it Evaluate and Judge: Focus' on the worth of an object, idea, or person and present' it as 'bad or 'good Inquire and Explore: Propose' a problem or question Analyze and Interpret: Examine phenomena that are difficult to understand or explain Take a Stand/Propose a Solution: Persuade audience to particular position and provide' justification' ' In teaching these lessons, Gallagher provides mentor texts (professional samples as well as models he has written in front of his students), student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies proven to elevate student writing. By helping teachers bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, Write Like This enables students to become better adolescent writers. More important, the practices found in this book will help our students develop the writing skills they will need to become adult writers in the real world. 'Trade Review"And this is what I love about Gallagher: he practices what he preaches. In Write Like This, he takes the reader by the hand and shows how the teaching process occurs in his own classroom, warts and all." - MiddleWeb "Specific approaches to teaching effective writing and analytical skills make Write Like This a fine pick for high school to college collections alike, packing in plenty of examples for effective writing development." - California Bookwatch "This book grips you from the beginning to end. It is logical, reasonable and passionate — in other words, it is well written. It is the kind of guide to have at hand, to refer to often, and to put into action." - Professionally SpeakingTable of ContentsChapter 1: Moving Writing to the Front Burner; Chapter 2: Express and Reflect; Chapter 3: Inform and Explain; Chapter 4: Evaluate and Judge; Chapter 5: Inquire and Explore; Chapter 6: Analyze and Interpret; Chapter 7: Take a Stand/Propose a Solution; Chapter 8: Polishing the Paper; Chapter 9: The Wizard of Oz Would Have Been a Lousy Writing Teacher
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Stenhouse Publishers Beyond Answers: Exploring Mathematical Practices
Book SynopsisBeyond 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.Each chapter is dedicated to one of the eight common core standards. Using examples from his own teaching and vignettes from many other K-2 teachers, Flynn does the following: Invites you to break the cycle of teaching math procedurally Demonstrates what it means for children to understand not just do math Explores what it looks like when young children embrace the important behaviors espoused by the practices The book's extensive collection of stories from K-2 classroom provides readers with glimpses of classroom dialogue, teacher reflections, and examples of student work. Focus questions at the beginning of each vignette help you analyze the examples and encourage further reflection. Beyond Answers is a wonderful resource that can be used by individual teachers, study groups, professional development staff, and in math methods courses.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Mathematical Practice 1: Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them; Chapter 2: Mathematical Practice 2: Reason Abstractly and Quantitatively; 3: Mathematical Practice 3: Construct Viable Arguments and Critique the Reasoning of Others; Chapter 4: Mathematical Practice 4: Model with Mathematics; Chapter 5: Mathematical Practice 5: Use Appropriate Tools Strategically; Chapter 6: Mathematical Practice 6: Attend to Precision; Chapter 7: Mathematical Practice 7: Look For and Make Use of Structure; Chapter 8: Mathematical Practice 8: Look For and Express Regularity in Repeated Reasoning; Chapter 9: Putting It All Together
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