Educational strategies and policy Books
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.
£25.60
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.
£999.99
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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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 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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