"This Is a Great Book!": 101 Events for Building Enthusiastic Readers Inside and Outside the Classroom-From Chapter Books to Young Adult Novels by Larry Swartz

Committed to nurturing a love of reading, this highly readable book explores a wide range of recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages. The 100 events outlined in this...

100 Minutes: Making Every Minute Count in the Literacy Block by Lisa Donohue

It 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...

12 Sides to Your Story: Simple Steps for Turning Ordinary Writing Into Something Extraordinary by Graham Foster

A useful reference, 12 Sides to Your Story uses student writing exemplars to illustrate desirable features as it challenges students to note use of these strategies in published stories. This book...

3 Minute Motivators by Kathy Paterson

3 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,...

55 Teaching Dilemmas: Ten Powerful Solutions to Almost Any Classroom Challenge by Kathy Paterson

To teach with excellence demands more than strategies and techniques. The most successful teachers draw on their personal power their confidence, compassion, and empathy, and their professional...

59 Reasons to Write: Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers by Kate Messner

In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be writers themselves. They must experience the same uncertainty of starting a new draft and then struggling to revise. As they learn to move...

A Closer Look: Learning More about Our Writers with Formative Assessment by Lynne R Dorfman

In A Closer Look, Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty provide the tools and strategies you need to use formative assessment in writing workshop. Through Lynne and Diane’s ideas, you will be able to ...

A Note Slipped Under the Door: Teaching from Poems We Love by Nick Flynn

A Note Slipped Under the Door will show how you might help your student writers let the poems they love teach them what they need to know, and build a writing life that includes finding and crafting...

A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades by Georgia Heard

In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create a landscape of wonder, a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged. For it is...

A Sense of Belonging: Sustaining and Retaining New Teachers by Jennifer Allen

  A Sense of Belonging provides research-based, practical ideas on how to support new teachers while honoring the innovation, idealism, and optimistic enthusiasm that they bring to the...

Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings by Jeff Zwiers

Where would we be without conversation? Throughout history, conversations have allowed us to see different perspectives, build ideas, and solve problems. Conversations, particularly those referred...

Academic Literacy (DVD): Preparing All Students for Success in College and Beyond by Robin Turner

In Academic Literacy viewers get a glimpse into Robin's classroom, where many students are the first in their families to attend high school, let alone college. Robin employs careful, systematic,...