Trait Crate Plus, Grade 3: Where Literature Lives in the Writing Classroom by Ruth Culham

Using fiction and nonfiction children’s books as mentors, Trait Crate Plus adds new life and energy to the teaching of writing through thoughtful and creative lessons that are ready-to-use tomorrow. Everything you need is provided. Traits Crate...

Trait Crate Plus, Grade 4: Where Literature Lives in the Writing Classroom by Ruth Culham

Using fiction and nonfiction children"s books as mentors, Trait Crate Plus adds new life and energy to the teaching of writing through thoughtful and creative lessons that are ready-to-use tomorrow. Everything you need is provided. Traits...

Trait Crate Plus, Grade 5: Where Literature Lives in the Writing Classroom by Ruth Culham

Using fiction and nonfiction children"s books as mentors, Trait Crate Plus adds new life and energy to the teaching of writing through thoughtful and creative lessons that are ready-to-use tomorrow. Everything you need is provided. Traits...

40 Strategies for Guiding Readers Through Informational Texts by Barbara Moss

Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards-based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in...

A Close Look at Close Reading: Teaching Students to Analyze Complex Texts, Grades 6-12

The Common Core State Standards have put close reading in the spotlight as never before. Although middle and high school teachers want and need students to connect with, analyze, and learn from both literary and informational texts, many are unsure how...

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 their own.

Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening

Highly acclaimed author Heidi Hayes Jacobs shows teachers at very grade level and in every subject area -- how to integrate the teaching of literacy skills into their daily curriculum. With an emphasis on school wide collaborative planning, she shows...

Advocating for English Learners: A Guide for Educators by Diane Staehr Fenner 

Apprenticeship in Literacy: Transitions Across Reading and Writing, K-4 by Linda J Dorn

Since its publication in 1998, Apprenticeship in Literacy has become a teacher favorite, covering all aspects of a balanced literacy program in an integrated manner and showing how all components are differentiated to address the needs of diverse...

Assessment for Reading Instruction by Michael C McKenna

This trusted teacher guide and widely adopted text provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and hands-on practical tools for reading assessment. The authors present a clear roadmap for evaluating K-8 students' strengths and weaknesses in each of...

Balanced Literacy Essentials: Weaving Theory Into Practice for Successful Instruction in Reading, Writing, and Talk by Michelann Parr

Balanced 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...

Balancing Reading & Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching English Language Learners, K-5 by Mary Cappellini

Teaching reading to children in a language that is not their own is a daunting task. Combining the best classroom practices and research on teaching reading and language acquisition, Mary Cappellini integrates effective reading instruction with...