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 comprehensive look at literacy and learning, 100...

Academic Language for English Language Learners and Struggling Readers: How to Help Students Succeed Across Content Areas by Yvonne Freeman

Academic Language! Academic Literacy!: A Guide for K-12 Educators by Eli R Johnson

Develop students' understanding of academic language and watch literacy skills soar! To achieve higher levels of learning, students must be able to understand academic language—the formalized language of instruction found in classrooms, textbooks,...

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, and rigorous methods to help students acquire the...

Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, Grades 6-12: Must-Have Skills Every Student Needs to Achieve by James R Burke

Analyze, argue, compare/contrast, describe, determine, develop, evaluate, explain, imagine, integrate, interpret, organize, summarize, support, and transform . . . Can a mere fifteen words turn today’s youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers...

Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Connecting Print Literacy with Digital, Media, and Global Competence, K-12  by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Help students become more confident and successful readers, writers, and thinkers in today’s world. In this new edition of a bestseller, highly acclaimed author and speaker Heidi Hayes Jacobs offers practical ideas for closing the literacy gap by...

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...

Adolescent Literacies: A Handbook of Practice-Based Research by Kathleen A Hinchman

 Showcasing cutting-edge findings on adolescent literacy teaching and learning, this unique handbook is grounded in the realities of students' daily lives. It highlights research methods and instructional approaches that capitalize on adolescents'...

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...

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...

Becoming a Literacy Leader, 2nd Edition: Supporting Learning and Change by Jennifer Allen

The new edition of her book is a thoughtful, reflective evolution of her work as she rethinks how her identity and role as a literacy leader have evolved in the ten years since she wrote the first edition. She focuses on three ideas to describe her...

Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action by Kathy Escamilla

Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action shows bilingual education teachers, administrators, and leadership teams how to plan, implement, monitor, and strengthen biliteracy instruction that builds on students? linguistic resources in two...