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(c) / Price |
| ACTIVE LEARNING: 101 Strategies To Teach Any Subject - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | This book is a comprehensive collection of practical strategies for teachers. Each strategy is described with clear, step-by-step instructions appropriate for a variety of subject areas. This handy resource is one you’ll appreciate for those times when you just can’t think of another creative way to introduce, reinforce, or review a lesson. This book is particularly useful for teachers of grades 4 through 12. | Mel Silberman c.1996
$22.00 |
| ADOLESCENT LITERACY: Turning Promise into Practice | Adolescent Literacy is a handbook of critical issues that begins with a look at literacy and schools: to learn more about yourself as a teacher...; to consider what it means to prepare students for active democratic participation in this changing world; to better understand adolescents of today; to rethink teaching reading skills; to assess achievement effectively; to better understand the demands of the 21st century; to teach using multiple technologies so student are multiliterate; to focus on ELLs and under-achieving students; and to rethink composition skills. All chapters: recognize that texts must be read at an instructional level and an independent reading level for students to learn; and encourage students to read and write narrative and expositive texts. | Kylene Beers, Robert E. Probst, Linda Rief - Editors
$16.00 |
| ADVENTURES IN GRAPHICA: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension (2-6) | Comic books and graphic novels, known collectively as "graphica," have long been popular with teenagers and adults. Recently, graphica has grown in popularity with younger readers as well, motivating and engaging reluctant readers who often shun traditional texts. While some teachers have become curious about graphica's potential, many remain confused by the number of new titles and series available and unsure of its suitability and function in their classrooms. Drawing on recent research and his own success using graphica with elementary readers, literacy coach Terry Thompson helps teachers navigate this medium and shows how teaching with graphica fits into literacy frameworks and correlates with best practices in comprehension, vocabulary and fluency instruction. | Terry Thompson
$15.00 |
| ART CONNECTIONS: Integrating Art Throughout the Curriculum - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | This book is a must-have resource for teachers of elementary visual arts programs! Art Connections will help you address the expectations for elementary visual arts program; design activities for art production, art history, art criticism and aesthetics; integrate meaningful art education with other subject areas; relate art to real-world activities such as graphic art and city planning; teach students how to analyze and discuss art; and show how to recognize the historical and cultural influences in art. Audience: Grades 4-8 | Kimberly Thompson and Diana Loftus c.1995
$11.00 |
| ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING: An Action Guide for School Leaders - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | This book is grounded in the research shown to increase student motivation and learning through improved classroom assessment. This combination text and workbook: is user-friendly with practical examples of what assessment for learning looks like in everyday instruction; helps educators increase knowledge and skill in student-involved classroom assessment; comes with activities that lead to hands-on practice in the classroom; and contains additional resources on a CD-ROM and video segments on the accompanying DVD. Another suggestion: Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right-Using It Well | S. Chappuis, R.J. Stiggins, J. Arter and J. Chappuis c.2005
$25.00 |
| AWAKENING BRILLIANCE | In this book, the author combines the skills of a fine storyteller/novelist with a deep sensitivity for what children need. Any teacher, administrator, parent or caregiver will be able to learn, through the vicarious experience of reading, what it takes to be a “great” teacher instead of just a “good” teacher. The practical information is first received as an engaging story and then in a useful appendix. This book celebrates teaching and learning and will be passed from hand to hand. | Pamela Sims, M. Ed c.1997
$10.00 |
| BECOMING A BETTER TEACHER: 8 Innovations That Work | This book provides JK-12 educators with key information about some of the most effective teaching and learning tools available today. The author addresses curriculum integration, standards-based curriculum and assessment design, authentic assessment, scoring rubrics, portfolios, reflection, and action research. Numerous examples from different grade levels - along with design modules, templates and checklists - make this an invaluable guide for teachers and school administrators. Audience: All educators | Giselle Martin-Kniep c.2000
$10.00 |
| BEING AN EFFECTIVE MENTOR: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed | Experienced teachers and administrators know how important it is to give beginning teachers the support and advice they need. This incredibly straightforward and useful guide will help mentor teachers to develop effective mentoring strategies, including how to provide direct assistance, demonstration teaching, observation and feedback, informal contact, and role modeling. You’ll also find monthly listings of activities designed to promote interaction between mentors and protégés that correspond to activities and events occurring in a typical school year. Five additional resources, including a first-day checklist, provide valuable information and tools to help you mentor the beginning teacher. | Kathleen Feeney Jonson c.2002
$17.00 |
| BEYOND BIRD UNITS: 18 Models for Teaching and Learning in Information-Rich and Technology-Rich Environments (Refresh Ed) | The original edition was published in 2007. All of the units (worksheets/ project guides) have been updated to include more emphasis on the Big Think (the metacognitive activity) as the final event in each of the learning experiences and the use of Web 2.0 tools as a means of boosting learning. For a number of years now, this trio of authors has waged war on bird units. (Definition of a bird unit is a learning experience where kids/teens choose a topic to research; copy a bunch of facts from books or the Internet; paste them onto worksheets or PowerPoint slides; and finally subject their peers to boring oral reports. This book is the foundation of the war strategy and models include planning sheets and discipline/grade level tasks in an attempt to make deep understanding within the world of information and high tech. Instead of the classroom teacher going it alone, they advocate the involvement of other specialists in the school (teacher librarian; technology, art, music teachers, reading coaches, etc.) as co-teachers/ collaborators. For teacher librarians and all classroom teachers. | David V. Loertscher Carol Koechlin Sandi Zwaan c. 2011
$23.00 |
| BEYOND DISCIPLINE: From Compliance to Community | In this book, Kohn shows how a fundamentally cynical view of children lies beneath the assumption that we must tell them exactly how we expect them to behave and then offer positive reinforcement when they obey. Just as memorizing someone else’s right answers fails to promote students’ intellectual development, so does complying with someone else’s behavioral expectations fail to help students develop socially or morally. Kohn contrasts the idea of discipline, in which things are done to students to control how they act, with an approach in which we work with students to create caring communities where decisions are made together. Packed with stories from real classrooms around the country, seasoned with humor and grounded in a vision as practical as it is optimistic, this book shows how students are most likely to flourish in schools that have moved toward collaborative problem solving and beyond discipline. | Alfie Kohn c.1996
$14.00 |
| BEYOND LEVELED BOOKS: Supporting Transitional Readers in Grades 2-5 | In this book the author takes a look at the way classroom routines, small group instruction, mini-lessons and conversations can help students move toward independence. It asks teachers to reach beyond the levels and look closely at the “supports” in the books they are reading with their students (e.g., the way chapters are organized, text layout, dialogue). Sample mini-lessons, strategies for grouping students for small group instruction, and assessment techniques are major components of this book. | Karen Szymusiak & Franki Sibberson c.2001
$15.00 |
| BEYONG MONET: The Artful Science of Instructional Integration | In Beyond Monet: The Artful Science of Instructional Integration, the authors look at multiple intelligence, lesson design, mind mapping, academic controversy, inductive thinking, cooperative learning and concept attainment, as well as brain research, children at risk, critical thinking, learning styles, and emotional intelligence. It is dedicated to Michael Fullan, Bruce Joyce and Beverly Showers for encouraging the authors to explore and integrate the complexity of educational change with the intricacy of instructional design. Review: Not only does it recognize the complexity of our job as a teacher, but it generously gives us many strategies to ensure and enhance our students’ learning. With more teachers using strategies such as the ones explained in this book, boys as well as girls would be turned on by learning! | Barrie Bennett, Carol Rolheiser
$32.00 |
| BLINK: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | In Blink, the author revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology to reveal that the difference between good decision making and bad has less to do with how much information we process than with our ability to focus on a few, particular details, he shows how we all can become better decision makers - in our homes, in our offices, and in everyday life. | Malcolm Gladwell
$9.00 |
| BLOGS, WIKIS, PODCASTS and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms | This book brings teachers a bold vision and on-the-ground Monday morning practicality. It will move educators to think differently about technology's potential for strengthening students' critical thinking, writing, reflection and interactive learning. The author demystifies words like "blog, wiki and aggregator," making classroom technology an easily accessible component of classroom research, writing and learning. With detailed, simple explanations, definitions and how-tos, critical information on internet safety and helpful links, this exciting book opens an immense toolbox with specific teaching applications. | Will Richardson
$15.00 |
| BREAKTHROUGH | Breakthrough presents a revolutionary new approach to educational reform, breaking away from the conventional paradigm to help educators create focused instruction, transform the classroom experience, and dramatically raise - and sustain - performance levels for students and teachers alike. This book provides the breakthrough concepts needed for developing precise, validated, data-driven instruction personalized to each and every student. Synthesizing the best of current instructional models, this framework focuses on the Triple P Core Breakthrough Components: Personalization (meaningful, student-centered classroom interactions); Precision (using formative assessments to monitor individual student progress); and Professional Learning (daily, ongoing learning for all educators). Elements of the Breakthrough model include: improvement by design, assessment for learning, critical learning instructional paths, mapping instructional paths, smart use of data to drive instruction, and locking in ongoing improvement. | Michael Fullan, Peter Hill and Carmel Crevola
$15.00 |
| BUILDING LITERACY CONECTIONS WITH GRAPHIC NOVELS: Page by Page, Panel by Panel | As teachers, we're always looking for new ways to help our students engage with texts. The contributors to this collection have found an effective approach: use graphic novels! The contributors tap into the growing popularity of graphic novels in this one-of-a-kind guidebook. Each chapter presents practical suggestions for the classroom as it pairs a graphic novel with a more traditional text or examines connections between multiple sources. The creative pairings used open up a double world of possibilities - in word and images - to all kinds of learners, from reluctant readers and English language learners to gifted students and those who are critically exploring relevant social issues. Packed with great ideas for integrating graphic novels into the curriculum, this collection of creative and effective teaching strategies will help you and your students join the fun. | Edited by James Bucky Carter, University of Virgina
$16.00 |
| Children Dancing - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | Not available at this time. This book is a practical guide to the teaching of creative movement to children. Part One describes what to dance about and what methods to use. Part Two shows how movement can be related to a wide variety of ideas. Part Three is a collection of lessons exemplifying Parts One and Two. The movements and examples are simple with much opportunity for repetition and assimilation. Children Dancing is invaluable for those who know little about dance as well as for the more experienced. Audience: JK-4 teachers | Rosamund Shreeves c.1990
$17.00 |
| CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENT LEARNING: Doing It Right - Using It Well - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | Includes a DVD of video segments illustrating ideas and practices presented in the book and a CD-ROM containing activities that facilitate individual or group learning. This book is the core of a larger, comprehensive professional development program in student-involved classroom assessment that: teaches standards of assessment quality, and how to match achievement targets to assessment methods; help teachers learn to involve students in the assessment process and provide descriptive feedback to students, practices proven to be especially effective for low-performing students; saves professional development time and resources through presentation in a learning-team model; and integrates learning-team based text study with classroom practices, and includes 7 interactive training videos aligned to the presentation in the book. Another suggestion: Assessment For Learning: An Action Guide for School Leaders | R.J. Stiggins, J. Arter , J. Chappuis and S. Chappuis c.2005
$34.00 |
| CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION THAT WORKS: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement | What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students? The authors present nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning: identifying similarities and differences; summarizing and note taking; reinforcing effort and providing recognition; homework and practice; nonlinguistic representations; cooperative learning; setting objectives and providing feedback; generating and testing hypotheses; and questions, cues and advance organizers. Each chapter presents extended classroom examples of teachers and students in action; models of successful instruction; and many frames, rubrics, organizers and charts to help teachers plan and implement the strategies. | R.J. Marzano, D.J. Pickering and J.E. Pollock c.2001
$20.00 |
| Classroom Language Skills for Children with Down Syndrome | This book covers every aspect of a child’s language needs from kindergarten through middle school and explores the best strategies for adapting schoolwork and improving teacher-student communication. Included are tips on how to adapt curriculum, spoken instructions, written assignments, and classroom routines to meet the needs of students. Samples of worksheets, checklists, graphic organizers, visual prompts, and an IEP planner make it easy to get started. This book also covers augmentative communication methods for children who use little or no speech, as well as methods for enhancing conversation and social communication between children with down syndrome and their peers. By illustrating the key connection between language, learning and school success, this guide is a must-have reference for any parent or teacher of a child with down syndrome. | Libby Kumin, Ph.D., CCC-SLP c.2001
$16.00 |
| Classroom Strategies for Helping At-Risk Students | This book is essential reading for busy teachers who want to use high quality research to guide their practice. It identifies six general strategies proven to be positive interventions for students at risk of failure and describes each strategy, analyzes the research, and offers implications for deciding how to use the strategies. A discussion guide helps readers directly connect the research to their own classrooms. Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, this authoritative book will deepen your understanding of effective teaching methods and help you work more successfully with low-performing students. | David R. Snow c.2005
$16.00 |
| Creating Writers Through 6-Trait Writing (Assessment and Instruction) 4th Edition | This book offers a comprehensive overview of the best education strategies and philosophies from the worlds of writing assessment and instruction. It provides clear guidelines on helping students draft, assess and revise their writing, as well as explicit criteria to show students precisely what they must do to succeed as writers in virtually any situation. | Vicki Spandel c.2005
$30.00 |
| Creating Young Writers Using the 6-Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms | This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Spandel’s effective 6-trait approach to writing for K-3 teachers, and is the perfect complement to its parent text, Creating Writers. It provides clear guidelines on helping young students draft, assess and revise their writing, as well as explicit criteria to show students precisely what they must do to succeed as writers in virtually any situation. Features include: lesson ideas to help teachers understand exactly how to teach writing to beginning writers; samples of actual student work (text and art) so teachers understand how to recognize strengths and growth in student work; specific examples of how to model writing for students; samples of simple student portfolios; an explanation of how revision looks/works at beginning levels so teachers understand what it is and how to teach it; a step-by-step review of the publishing process; recommended books for teaching key traits of writing; analysis of classroom- versus large-scale assessment; and an inside look at four classrooms. | Vicki Spandel c.2004
$20.00 |
| CRITICAL LITERACY AND WRITER'S WORKSHOP: Bringing Purpose and Passion to Student Writing - NO LONGER AVAILABLE | This book shows elementary grade teachers how incorporating critical literacy into writer’s workshop will take their students’ writing to the next level. The author shares her story of a yearlong project that changed the type of writing that 3rd grade students produced as they learned to bridge their personal lives and social issues through social-narrative writing. The chapters provide insight into each step of the author’s journey to help you take the first steps toward implementing this type of workshop in your classroom. Plus, you’ll discover how integrating critical literacy into writer’s workshop allows students to engage in a form of social action as they actively critique the connections between their personal lives and society. | Lee Heffernan
$9.00 |
| CRITICAL LITERACY: Enhancing Students' Comprehension of Text | This book will help you engage and motivate your students as they learn to comprehend from a critical stance. In Part 1, the authors describe critical literacy and its theoretical underpinnings. They present research-based principles and provide practical frameworks for teaching critical literacy strategies and lessons. In Part 2, the authors describe theme-based critical literacy lessons, based on real classroom practice in primary, intermediate, and middle schools. The lessons, brought to life through teacher voices and student work, focus on the following themes: challenging the text, exploring identities, and seeing beyond the bias. | Maureen McLaughlin and Glenn L. DeVoogd c.2004
$15.00 |
| DIFFERENTIATED CLASSROOM, THE: Responding to the Needs of All Learners | This book offers powerful, practical solutions to the age-old question: How can teachers divide their time, resources and efforts to effectively instruct students of diverse backgrounds, skill levels and interests?
The author looks at elementary and secondary classrooms in nearly all subject areas to show how to turn the challenge of differentiation into reality. Tomlinson speaks to experienced and novice teachers as well as educational leaders who want to foster differentiation in their schools.
Audience: All educators | Carol Ann Tomlinson c.1999
$9.00 |
| DIRECTING THE WRITING WORKSHOP: An Elementary Teacher's Handbook | This book is a guide to reaching writing across a broad range off ages and grade levels (K-8). Each stage of the writing process is covered in detail, from setting a purpose for writing to drafting, revising, editing and producing a "finished" product. The goal is to provide a comprehensive overview of writing development and best practices in teaching, richly illustrated with examples of student work. Teachers learn strategies and techniques to help students work independently and in groups to develop meaningful projects; master needed skills through engaging mini-lessons; produce various forms of fiction and nonfiction writings; and use literature as a source of inspiration and modeling. | Jean Wallace Gillet and Lynn Beverly c.2001
$18.00 |
| Early Literacy Instruction in Kindergarten | Most educators will agree that a kindergarten program must provide not only a print-rich environment, but also carefully organized learning experiences. This author takes that assertion further by mapping out how to develop and maintain an exemplary literacy program in a kindergarten classroom. This book will help teachers set appropriate and achievable goals for an exemplary kindergarten literacy program that will meet the needs of all students. | Lori Jamison Rog (c) 2001
$15.00 |
| EDUCATORS AS LEARNERS: Creating a Professional Learning Community | How can schools develop a shared vision that embraces the aspiration of all members of the school community? How can members of a learning community work together to build the knowledge and processes needed for student success? This book describes a professional development model that supports educators and families in learning and growing together presented in three parts: cornerstones (discusses concepts, assumptions and leadership qualities of an effective school-based staff development model), process (presents lively case studies and activities that show how to build professional learning communities), and tools for learning (filled with practical, field-tested staff development tools that complement the process of building school-based professional learning communities). This book embraces principles of collegiality, inquiry, learning and community. | P.J. Wald and M.S. Castleberry (c)2000
$20.00 |
| ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS: Teaching Developmentally (not available at this time) | This textbook is intended for classroom teachers and undergraduate and graduate students who need assistance in further understanding mathematical concepts presented at the elementary level. The author explores developing mathematical understanding, teaching through problem solving, and mathematical assessment. Specific chapters are devoted to explaining the teaching of specific learning expectations in the five strands of mathematics. | John A. Van De Walle
$46.00 |
| First Days of School, The | This book is written to help all teachers “jump start” by beginning school successfully. This book is for you if: you had to buy only one book in education to help you become a successful teacher; you are having trouble with your students and are not getting the results you want; you are a staff developer or an administrator and you want to help your teachers be the best they can be; you are a college professor and you want to help your preservice teachers be the best that they can be. | H.K. Wong and R.T. Wong c.1998
$20.00 |
| First Four Weeks of Cooperative Learning, The | This book has been written for teachers who are new to cooperative learning. After returning from training or workshops, teachers are excited about starting cooperative learning, but often one of two things happen. The first thought that comes from teachers is, “I have all these ideas, but how/where do I begin?” The second obstacle that often occurs is teachers try the structures or activities they learned from their workshops or training, but do not experience high levels of success. This book is written to initially assist teacher son the things they must do to prepare the students BEFORE they are actually put into teams as well as activities to use with your own guided practice and review lesson activities which make learning fun. When learning is FUN, students learn more and enjoy school! | Stephen B.McCarney c.1991
$18.00 |
| GOOD QUESTIONS: Great Ways to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction | To help K-8 teachers differentiate math instruction with less difficulty and greater success, this resource: underscores the rationale for differentiating math instruction; describes two universal, easy-to-implement strategies designed to overcome the problems that teacher encounter; offers questions and tasks that teachers/coaches can adopt immediately; includes ‘teaching tips’ sidebars and an organizing template at the end of each chapter; and shows how to create a more inclusive classroom learning community with mathematical talk that engages participants from all levels. Teachers can use two powerful and universal strategies across all math content: open questions and parallel tasks. Showing teachers how to get started and become expert with these strategies, the author also demonstrates more inclusive learning conversations that promote broader student participation. Specific strategies and examples for each grade band are organized around the NCTM content strands (Number and Operations, Geometry, Measurement, Algebra, and Data Analysis and Probability). | Mirian Small
$20.00 |
| GRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE: Playing with Possibilities | This full-colour spiral-bound publication with large colour fold-out student examples puts you in the forefront of differentiating instruction and more meaningfully maneuvering in the world of multiple intelligences. Dr. Barrie Bennett's years of working with and applying graphic intelligence with Ranking Ladders, Venn Diagrams, Web Diagrams, Flow Charts, Mind Maps, Concept Maps, etc. have produced the most comprehensive and fully illustrated text on this subject. Finding better ways that are of interest to students with a focus on thinking and how that connects to how effectively students work with one another. This book is about how we think inductively and deductively, why we need to reflect and organize our thoughts, why talk is essential and why all of what was just said is critical for inquiry. That is why we employ graphic organizers - to invoke and encourage the process of organizing our thinking - and from that, if necessary, to more effectively communicate with others. | Dr. Barrie Bennett
$40.00 |
| GUIDED READING: Good First Teaching for All Children | This book is one of the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resources available and offers much instructional support for guided reading. The author explains how to create a balanced literacy program based on guided reading and is supported by reading aloud, shared reading, and interactive writing. Each chapter presents the theoretical underpinnings for the practices it suggests. Some examples of the guidelines included are: observation and assessment tools; dynamic groupings of students; selecting and introducing books; and classroom management strategies. The appendix lists over 2500 leveled books along with many reproducible masters. Audience: K-3 teachers | Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell c.1996
$25.00 |
| GUIDING READERS AND WRITERS GRADES 3-6: Teaching Comprehension, Genre and Content Literacy | In this book, the authors explore all the essential components of a quality elementary literacy program. It includes: special help for struggling readers and writers; breakthrough to literacy; independent reading; guided reading; literature study; teaching for comprehension and word analysis; the reading and writing connection; and 1,000 leveled books and lots of other support. All in all, this is your best resource for fostering the success that will enable students to enjoy a future filled with literacy journeys. | Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell c.2001
$24.00 |
| HAVING HARD CONVERSATIONS | For many educators, confronting a colleague about a work-related issue can be a daunting matter. This insightful book helps educators speak with clarity and courage to directly address difficult situations within their school. This book provides an interactive, personal approach to mastering the art of challenging conversations. The author's step-by-step strategy addresses a wide range of situations, including communication with supervisees, peers, and supervisors. Emphasizing that initiative and preparation are the keys to a successful conversation, this resource includes: thought-provoking questions and first-person accounts that help educators become more self-aware, effective communicators; advice on overcoming personal hesitation about expressing concerns; guidance on identifying goals for the conversation and choosing the best "what-where-and-when" for a productive discussion; and sample scripts and practical tools to help educators prepare for the conversation. By addressing important issues directly and professionally, educators can find self-empowerment and promote an open, healthy school environment. | Jennifer Abrams
$30.00 |
| HIGH PERFORMANCE TOOLBOX, THE: Succeeding With Performance Tasks, Projects and Assessments | Complex performance tasks, often called “projects”, may either succeed or fail because of the details. This comprehensive resource not only explains the processes and details of a variety of quality performance task designs, it provides the crucial assessments required to analyze student learning. The toolbox includes: step-by-step guides for developing assessments, tasks and rubrics; easy-to-use organizers and templates; strategies for increasing scores on large-scale assessments; procedures for grading performances; tips to simplify classroom management; appendices with hundreds of practical ideas; examples of rubrics; and reproducible masters. This book is essential for all classroom teachers involved with designing activities and assessing learning. | Spence Rogers and Shari Graham c.2000
$27.00 |
| HOW TO GIVE EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK TO YOUR STUDENTS | A teachers feedback on student schoolwork can be a powerful force for learning - if it contains a helpful message and is delivered with certain considerations in mind. But what kind of content makes a feedback message helpful to a student? And what kinds of strategies work best for delivering feedback? In this book the author answers these questions by describing important elements of feedback content (focus, comparison, function, valence, clarity, specificity, and tone) and strategy (timing, amount, mode and audience). The book provides practical suggestions and classroom examples that demonstrate what to do - and not do - to have a positive impact on students. Readers will also learn what kinds of feedback work best in the various content areas and how to adjust feedback for different kinds of learners, including successful students, struggling students, and English language learners. Done well, feedback has a two-pronged effect, addressing both cognitive factors, by helping students to understand where they are in their learning and where they need to go next; and motivational factors, by helping them develop a feeling of control over their own learning. Taken together, these factors explain why learning how to give effective feedback should be at the top of every teachers to-do list. | Susan M. Brookhart
$10.00 |
| HOW TO GRADE FOR LEARNING: Linking Grades to Standards | Much of what teachers do is because that is the way it was done to them; this is no longer good enough. This book examines the many issues around grading and provides a set of practical guidelines that teachers may use to arrive at grades for their students. Teachers from kindergarten to college can use the ideas in this book to examine and perhaps change their own grading practices, and, even more important, to focus their discussion of this complex, confusing, and difficult issue with colleagues. “How to Grade for Learning is easy to understand and is an excellent resource for individual teachers or learning teams.” | Ken O'Connor c.2002
$21.00 |
| IN GRAPHIC DETAIL: Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom (Learning Through Literacy) | This book connects the enthusiasm of young adults for graphic novels with one of education's central goals - promoting literacy by encouraging extensive reading and reflective response. By harnessing the literacy power of the graphic novel, teachers can motivate readers, especially reluctant readers or students at risk, to become successfully engaged with an accessible and entertaining form of narrative. This book offers background information about this word/graphic mode of storytelling, along with a brief overview of the components that writers and artists incorporate in creasing this narrative genre. Explanations of the different terms and techniques inherent in graphic novels are supported by lavish illustrations. The authors provide strategies using different dynamics - independent reading, literature circles, guided reading, whole class shared reading, and curriculum and media links. In addition, it offers 40 response activities to support instruction in both reading and writing graphic novels. Reproducible pages are included to support the students as they work through the activities. | David Booth & Kathleen Gould Lundy
$18.00 |
| INCLUSION OF EXCEPTIONAL LEARNERS IN CANADIAN SCHOOLS: A Practical Handbook for Teachers, 2nd Edition | This book is an inclusive, research-based education resource for elementary and secondary school teachers. Instead of focusing on how teachers can individualize for exceptional students, this text addresses how teachers can adapt their teaching to include these students. You, as a teacher, must challenge the assumptions of what exceptional students can and cannot do and be able to find new ways to help these students reach their potential. This text helps you confront the assumptions while reflecting critically on what it means to include exceptional students in Canadian schools. Having taught in both elementary and secondary schools, the author acknowledges the difference between the two settings, and in the text, focuses on the information, skills and strategies that are practical and relevant for each. | Nancy L. Hutchinson
$45.00 |
| INTERACTIVE WRITING: How Language and Literacy Come Together (K-2) | This book supports young writers as they learn how to communicate their discoveries. Here, children explore letter-sound relationships for the first consonant sound they hear, the role space plays in defining words, and left-to-right directionality. Interactive writing involves children as apprentices, working alongside a more expert writer, their teacher. Young students can learn how to compose a wide range of texts including ones that would be too difficult for them to read or write without adult support. Interactive writing can be used for just about any kind of functional writing that would appear in a classroom. | Andrea McCarrier, Gay SuPinnell and Irene C. Fountas c.2000
$22.00 |
| IS THAT A FACT? Teaching Nonfiction Writing (K-3) | Learn how to help your students become successful nonfiction writers. This book provides you with essential nonfiction writing strategies, assessment rubrics for each writing purpose, five case studies in K-3 classrooms, lists of nonfiction resources by both type and level, and reproducible materials for classroom and home use. | Tony Stead c.2002
$20.00 |
| LEARNING LANGUAGE AND LOVING IT: A Guide to Promoting Children's Social, Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood Settings 2nd Edition | This beautifully illustrated guidebook provides a step-by-step approach to promoting children’s social, language, and literacy development in child care, preschool, and other early childhood settings. This edition is updated with the most current research in the field, and is geared to a wide range of needs, from children at the earliest stages of nonverbal communication development to those who can speak in complex sentences. Professionals who work in early childhood settings will find the practical, interactive strategies invaluable in helping children - including those whose language and/or social skills are delayed or at risk - to interact and communicate with their teachers and peers during everyday interactions. This is an outstanding resource for teachers, speech-language pathologists, and other professionals who work with young children and who are responsible for creating learning environments that maximize children’s language, social, and literacy skills. | Elaine Weitzman and Janice Greenberg c.2002
$22.00 |
| LITERACY GUIDE FOR TEACHERS, A: Teaching Children to Read and Write | This comprehensive teacher’s resource sets language learning in the context of a balanced literacy program. It clearly identifies the stages through which all readers and writers move as they progress toward fluency. In addition, it instructs teachers in appropriate strategies to ensure that students make steady progress. From shared reading and writing, to guided and independent reading; from spelling and miscue analysis, to conferencing and portfolios - this book has it all. The appendix of blackline masters provides a variety of tracking and assessment tools. This book is for JK through Grade 6 classroom teachers, Primary/Junior LST and ESL. | Toronto Guide for Teachers c.2000
$25.00 |
| Literacy Principal, The | This book offers administrators the background and effective strategies needed for building more literate students. It shows principals how to evaluate and support literacy initiatives that create more successful learners. Aspects of literacy include: principles and practices that underlie literacy teaching and learning (including cueing systems, stages of reading, writing and spelling development); background on exemplary reading and writing programs and strategies for promoting literacy growth among students; formal and informal assessment and evaluation tools (including insights into a variety of intervention approaches for improving student performance); factors that promote a commitment to literacy on the part of principals, teachers, parents, students and the community. | David Booth and Jennifer Rowsell c.2002
$9.00 |
| Literacy Through Play | This resource is for pre-school and primary teachers who are looking for proven methods for preparing young children to become confident and flexible readers and writers. Owocki begins the book by establishing the theoretical rationale for the importance of play in literacy development, then outlines what teachers can do to set up a developmentally appropriate environment. Owocki takes us inside two classrooms that use play in smart ways. | Gretchen Owocki c.1999
$16.00 |
| LITERACY WORK STATIONS: Making Centers Work | This book helps teachers solve the dilemma of what to do with the rest of the class while working with a small reading group. It includes practical suggestions for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year. Each chapter includes: how to introduce each station; materials to include at each station; what to model; how to solve problems; how to differentiate; how to assess and keep students accountable; reflection questions for professional development. Throughout the book the author has included photos of literacy work stations from a variety of classrooms in which she has worked to help illustrate the methods discussed in the text. | Debbie Diller c.2003
$18.00 |
| LITERATURE CIRCLES: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups | This edition offers new strategies, structures, tools and stories that show how to launch and guide literature circles effectively. Everything from getting started to advanced variations are explored. This edition features: four different models for preparing students for literature circles, using response logs, post-it notes, and newly designed role sheets; new structures for primary, intermediate, middle and high school grades; alternative scheduling patterns for group meetings and reading time; new mini-lessons for training, problem solving and book sharing; new tools and materials for assessing and grading literature circles; ideas for using literature circles with nonfiction texts across the curriculum; an inventory of common management problems and solutions; research on literature circles, including correlation with increased achievement on standardized tests; and an explanation of how literature circles match with the national standards for literacy education. | Harvey Daniels c.2002
$22.00 |
| MAKE IT REAL: Strategies for Success with Informational Texts | Hoyt provides a practical, classroom-friendly guide to unlocking the treasures of informational texts. What’s more, she demonstrates that reading and writing nonfiction can overcome the gender gap, allowing girls and boys to share interests in any subject from bugs and magnets to gardens and cake baking. She explains the use of a range of instructional strategies, including shared and guided reading and writing, to help students understand and use nonfiction material to answer questions about the world around them. She shows teachers how to make texts more attainable, scaffold vocabulary, and deal with content-specific words. She includes throughout her book: teaching points; reading strategies; writing exercises; checklists, plans, reading logs and other forms; vignettes from teachers across the country to serve as real-life models. “We’re learning abut the world AND learning how to read, too!” (includes reproducibles) | Linda Hoyt c.2002
$20.00 |
| Making the Most of Understanding by Design | This book reflects what educators have learned about effective UbD implementation and explores how schools and districts can leverage UbD principles to improve student achievement, staff performance, and organizational productivity. Educators who have used the UbD framework for several years in various school settings present advice, strategies and processes for using UbD to: design purposeful, coherent curricula; deliver instruction that promotes understanding for all; unpack district standards; expand assessment repertoires; create meaningful and effective professional development and teacher-induction programs; and sustain a successful process of continuous improvement and strategic planning. | John L. Brown c.2004
$20.00 |
| Matching Books to Readers Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading (K-3) | Behind every successful reading program, you’ll find a skilled teacher who knows how to select “just the right” books for guided, independent and home reading. Now, with this practical reference, the authors do the work for you, providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date leveled reading list ever. Created with the input of hundreds of early literacy teachers, this book compiles 7,500 caption books, natural language texts, series books, and children’s literature for kindergarten through grade 3. Books are organized by title and by level of difficulty. Word counts are provided for most books to assist teachers as they take running records. To help teachers match the right book to the reader, the authors consider text characteristics, including style, topic and format – with several hundred suggested titles for use at each level. It also includes helpful descriptions of a leveled book collection and how best to use it. | Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell c.1999
$23.00 |
| MINI-LESSONS FOR LITERATURE CIRCLES | Mini-Lessons are the secret to book clubs that click. Each of these 45 short, focused, and practical lessons include Nancy and Harvey’s actual classroom language and is formatted to help busy teachers with point-by-point answers to the questions they most frequently ask. Each mini-lesson spells out everything from the time and materials needed to word-by-word instructions for students. The authors even warn “what could go wrong”, helping teachers avoid predictable management problems. With abundant student examples, reproducible forms, photographs of kids in action, and recommended reading lists, Mini-lessons for Literature Circles helps you deepen student book discussions, create lifelong readers, and build a respectful classroom community. | Harvey Daniels & Nancy Steineke, Heinemann c.2007
$22.00 |
| MORE THAN WORDS: Helping Parents Promote Communication and Social Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder | In this book, the author presents a step-by-step guide for parents of preschool children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other social communication difficulties. Each chapter is divided into four colour-coded stages of communication - ranging from children who are not talking to those who can carry on short conversations - making it easy for parents to find information that is just right for their child. Full of practical ideas and colourful illustrations, this book shows parents how they can turn everyday activities into opportunities for promoting interaction and communication skills. | Fern Sussman c.1999
$25.00 |
| New Dramathemes, The 3rd Edition | Teachers will find their favourites as well as new games and strategies to help students meet and exceed curriculum expectations. This remarkable book includes more than 100 games and drama activities, all with a clear learning focus. The activities use themes as a springboard for easy drama through games, movement, tableaux, role playing, improvisation, readers theatre, choral speaking and much more. Teachers will find opportunities to explore literary sources that include the picture book, novel, rhyme, folktale, poem, script and photograph. New drama structures look at relevant topics that range from personal narrative and the immigrant experience to bullying and building a community. The simple structure of the games, activities and improvisations, as well as suggestions for integrating reading, writing and talk with the arts, has made this book a perennial favourite. Includes reproducible pages that are a popular part of the author’s drama workshops - mask design, bullying survey, tongue twisters and more. Also features 12 assessment profiles as well as detailed assessment rubrics. Create dynamic classrooms and learning opportunities that focus on students and learning. | Larry Swartz c.2002
$10.00 |
| No-Nonsense Guide to Teaching Writing (Strategies, Structures, Solutions) | Filling their book with specific how-to details, the authors describe the organization of a successful yearlong writing workshop centered on writing cycles and the writing notebook. They help teachers of Grades 3 to 8 prepare tools, address management issues, get the work started, and build momentum as students increase their understanding of good writing practice. Their companion website offers forms, reproducibles and additional student samples. | Judy Davis & Sharon Hill
$16.00 |
| NONVERBAL LEARNING DISABILITES AT SCHOOL: Educating Students with NLD, Asperger Syndrome and Related Conditions - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | Most teachers will at some point come across a child with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD), and this practical and informative book will be invaluable in helping them to help such children to achieve their full potential in the classroom. Topics such as finding the right school, curriculum modifications, and social and emotional issues experienced by children with NLD are covered. However, the bulk of the book outlines specific teaching strategies, from how to deal with essay questions, to tips on helping the student master long division and ideas for improving reading comprehension. The author defines and discusses concepts such as front loading and a cooperative learning environment, and describes how they benefit the student with NLD. | Pamela B. Tanguay c.2002
$25.00 |
| ON SOLID GROUND: Strategies for Teaching Reading (K-3) | Enter Sharon Taberski’s classroom and enter a world where children take pride, take risks, and most of all, take reading seriously. It’s not utopia by any means; Sharon deals with the same issues other teachers face: limited resources, tremendous diversity, and the constant threat of overcrowding. What makes her exceptional is her clear vision. She is systematic in her thinking, and wise in her decision making. Most of all, she understands her role as a teacher and goals for each student. This is why Sharon is on solid ground. In her book, Sharon shares what she’s gained in her twenty years of working with children and teachers. It’s organized not around a set of prescribed skills, but around a series of interconnected interactions with the learner. | Sharon Taberski, The Manhattan New School, New York c.2000
$20.00 |
| PARENT TO PARENT: Our Children, Their Literacy - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | This book was written for parents to assist them in becoming active participants in their children’s literacy development. Authors offer parents a wealth of information to facilitate their children’s learning. | Gerald R. Oglan and Averil Elcombe c.2001
$9.00 |
| PATHWAYS TO PLAY: Developing Play Skills in Young Children | Play skills are life skills. They're the building blocks of successful human relationships in later years. This essential book shows teachers how to help children grow in social competency by developing cooperative play skills. The easy-to-use checklist helps you pinpoint where a child is having problems. Since the activities correspond with each checklist item, you can plan play activities that help the child develop the needed skills. Besides helping you manage problem behavior, it assists you in helping children develop new skills, as well as to encourage them to think imaginatively and to resolve conflict constructively and feel compassion. Those real life skills make a difference. Audience: Early Years | Sandra Heidemann and Deborah Hewitt c.1992
$12.00 |
| PRACTICE WITH PURPOSE: Literacy Work Stations for Grades 3-6 | Practice with Purpose offers guidance on establishing routines for independent reading and response writing, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to set up and manage a variety of hands-on literacy work stations appropriate for intermediate students. Each chapter includes: how to introduce the station; innovative ways to use materials; what to model to guarantee independence; how to troubleshoot; assessment and accountability ideas; how the station supports student achievement on state tests; and reflection questions for professional development. The extensive appendix includes time-saving tools such as management board icons, graphic organizers, task cards, and recommended Web sites and children’s literature. | Debbie Diller
$18.00 |
| PRIM (Pre-Referral Intervention Manual) 3rd ed - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | This manual provides a wide variety of intervention strategies that have been found to be successful for at-risk students and for students in special education. The strategies address 219 of the most common learning and behaviour problems encountered in the educational environment. This manual would be very useful to regular classroom teachers in their efforts to ameliorate problems prior to referral for special education services, to learning support teachers in assisting classroom teachers with designing accommodations and building consistency across classrooms, and to special education teachers in writing IEPs. | Teresa L. Cantlon c.2006
$32.00 |
| Q TASKS: How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers | The most critical key to improving understanding is the question and this book shows teachers how to develop a questioning culture among students. It offers practical strategies that will empower students to become critical thinkers and users of information. The step-by-step approach offers more than 80 tried-and-proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorization and rote learning. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding and give them ownership of their learning experience. Demonstrated is a skill-building approach to all kinds of tasks including: evaluating the reliability of information; connecting with literature and the arts; analyzing personal issues and setting realistic goals; exploring scientific and mathematical concepts; delving deeper into world issues; and testing new ideas. Each task contains explicit teaching instructions, curriculum contexts and evaluation techniques. Numerous reproducibles complement the deep lessons in this easy-to-use book. For teacher librarians and all classroom teachers. | Carol Koechlin Sandi Zwaan c.2006
$13.00 |
| READING ESSENTIALS: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well | What does it mean to be an effective teacher of reading? Good teaching doesn’t have to mean lots of hours spent planning. Instead, it requires lots of thinking - thinking about what matters to kids, what kids need to know, how we can move them forward, and how to ensure that they comprehend and enjoy what they read. Practical, philosophical, and political, this upbeat easy-to-read book is full of research-based strategies, immediately doable ideas, and professional common sense. It’s about what it means to teach reading well to all students, including those who struggle. Rautman gets to the heart of what effective reading instruction is all about and puts the fun back into teaching and learning. | Regie Routman c.2003
$20.00 |
| Reading With Meaning | If you have ever wondered how to teach comprehension strategies to primary-age children, read on. Imagine a primary-grade classroom where all the children are engaged and motivated; where the buzz of excited, emerging readers fills the air; where simultaneously words are sounded out and connections are made between the books of their choice and the experiences of their lives. Then, open these pages. Learn how best to teach children strategies for comprehending text. Students learn to become thoughtful, independent, and strategic readers. Through explicit instruction, modeling, classroom discussion, and by gradually releasing responsibility, you can create a climate and culture of thinking and learning. You will emerge with new tools for teaching comprehension strategies and a firm appreciation that a rigorous classroom can also be nurturing and joyful. | Debbie Miller c.2002
$19.00 |
| Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | Prepares students for a technologically defined 21st century! Practical, yet visionary. Focused on literacy within the context of technology. Demystifies the future of literacy and "makes it simple" for educators and students alike. Create students of the future and leaders for tomorrow's information highway! Walk away with a new definition of literacy for the Information Age that you can pass on to learners of all ages. Find suggestions and resources for discovering your own path to promoting literacy in the 21st century. "Action Items" suggest specific activities for all educators to undertake right away. A corresponding website that serves as a meeting place and discussion forum for collaboration and connectivity is also available to readers, where digital versions of charts, handouts and resources are at your fingertips. | David F. Warlick c.2004
$32.00 |
| REVISIT, REFLECT, RETELL: Time-Tested Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension UPDATED EDITION DVD | How can we be certain that students are making sense of print? What can we do to improve comprehension? This author is convinced that thoughtful reflection and retelling are the keys. When readers reflect upon and retell what they know about a text, they experience deeper levels of understanding and increased communicative competency. A new first chapter shows how to scaffold instruction for deep engagement. Important new tables link strategies to the seven comprehension strands. A DVD shares footage of the author working with students, demonstrating key teaching moves, and modelling effective classroom language. A CD of full-color learning tools from the text makes it easy to customize and print handouts that correspond with the strategies. Grades 2 to 9 Language Arts and English teachers will find this a valuable resource for creating meaningful and authentic learning experiences. | (c)2009
$18.00 |
| SCORING RUBRICS IN THE CLASSROOM: Using Performance Criteria for Assessing and Improving Student Performance | This is a practical guide to more effective assessment for improved student learning. Learn how to be more consistent in judging student performance, and help your students become more effective at assessing their own learning! This book offers a practical approach to assessing challenging but necessary performance tasks, like creative writing, real world research projects, and cooperative group activities. The authors, who are experts in the field of assessment, wrote this book to help you achieve three main goals: clarify the targets of instruction, especially for hard to define problem solving; provide valid and reliable assessment of student learning; and improve student motivation and achievement by helping students understand the nature of quality for performance and products. Teachers and administrators will find this an essential resource in increasing teacher effectiveness and student performance. | Judith Arter and Jay McTighe c.2001
$21.00 |
| So You Have to Teach Math? Sound Advice for K-6 Teachers | This book poses more than 100 questions that new and experienced K-6 teachers often ask themselves - and provides in-depth answers to these questions, no matter how large or how small. The authors’ responses are guaranteed to give teachers the support and direction they need to teach mathematics well. The chapters include: Chapters and Questions; Preparing for a Successful Year; Planning Effective Math Instruction; Leading Class Discussions; Number Sense and the Basics; Using Manipulative Materials; Dealing with Calculators; Incorporating Writing into Math Class; Linking Math and Literature; The First Week of School; Connecting with Parents; Handling Homework; Preparing for Administrator Observations; and Making Plans for Substitutes. | Marilyn Burns and Robyn Silbey c.2000
$14.00 |
| Solving Behavior Problems in Autism - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | Are you frustrated by the inevitable communication breakdowns and behavior difficulties that occur regularly with your most challenging students? Then this is the book for you! It targets an area of greatly expressed need, provides a very practical and pragmatic approach to managing problem behaviors, and is packed with samples and examples of strategies that have worked to improve communication and solve behavior problems. This resource is guaranteed to provide practical help for every educator or parent who faces those behavior and self-management challenges of students with autism spectrum disorders and other students with moderate to severe communication and behavior disorders. This is the second book in the visual strategies series. It follows the same style and format as Visual Strategies for Improving Communication. | Linda A. Hodgdon, M.Ed., CCC-SLP c.1999
$40.00 |
| Speaking Rules! | Many students find public speaking intimidating, embarrassing and threatening. In this practical and encouraging book, classroom teachers will discover a wonderful collection of ideas to help students overcome their fear of public speaking and flourish in front of an audience. Speaking Rules! is divided into two major sections. The first section focuses on oral communication with specific suggestions for imagining, listening actively, remembering, developing rapport with an audience, using body language, exploring voice, showing composure, improvising and interpreting. The second section deals with performance, especially developing content, coaching student performers, and assessing and evaluating oral communication. This valuable resource is full of classroom-tested games and exercises that help students develop the necessary skills to be confident and effective public speakers. Speaking Rules! will help teachers make oral language an important, fundamental, and fun part of language learning. | Cathy Miyata c.2001
$12.00 |
| Still Learning to Read | Students in grades 3 to 6 are still learning to read and teachers who are still learning how to balance reading instruction with the other instructional priorities at this level will find a wealth of helpful ideas in this book. The authors provide guidance on how to devote more time to reading instruction without neglecting the content demands of the curriculum. Presented are: many sample lessons, descriptions of classroom routines, and stories taken from the heart of the authors' reading workshops. Included are: planning forms for whole-class, small group and individual instruction; assessment and conference strategies; detailed descriptions of how to use readers' notebooks flexibly; annotated bibliographies of children's books to use in lesson design; activities to extend and deepen read-aloud and whole group conversations; tips for designing lessons using nonfiction texts and student magazines; ways to organize the classroom and library to promote student independence; and alternatives to levels for matching students, books and skills instruction. | Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak c.2003
$18.00 |
| TALK ABOUT ASSESSMENT: Strategies and Tools to Improve Learning | Effective assessment is key to student learning. This comprehensive resource speaks directly to the classroom teacher. It is divided into two sections. In the first section, the author explores the best practices in assessment. An accompanying DVD brings these best practices to life in a series of ten powerful video clips that feature teachers and their students in real situations. The second section features dozens of customizable and reproducible tools that teachers can use immediately in their classroom. These tools - planning templates, sample units, rubrics and checklists - link directly to the best practices identified in the first section of the book. For quick and easy classroom use, these tools are also included on an accompanying CD-ROM and a comprehensive web site, which includes video clips, student samples, and recommended reading. | Damian Cooper
$40.00 |
| TEACHING KIDS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN THE REGULAR CLASSROOM: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use To Challenge and Motivate Struggling Students | This book is for any teacher whose classroom includes students who struggle to learn. The book’s step-by-step teaching strategies and easy-to-use classroom activities benefit all students, while being particularly effective with those students for whom school is a challenge. Find out how to: match teaching styles to learning styles; teach to multiple intelligences; implement a variety of assessment practices; improve students’ learning in all subject areas; use technology to enhance student performance; involve all students in learning activities; and respond and intervene effectively. This book includes responses to frequently asked questions, extensive readings and resource lists, and over 50 reproducible forms and handouts. | Susan Winebrenner c.1996
$25.00 |
| TEACHING READING TO CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME: A Guide for Parents and Teachers (not available at this time) | Children with down syndrome can be taught to read using an approach that provides for their unique learning styles and needs. The only book on this subject, it describes a nationally known reading program that ensures success by presenting lessons which are both imaginative and functional and which can be tailored to meet the needs of each student. | Patricia Logan Oelwein c.1995
$15.00 |
| Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics (Grades 5-8) Vol.3 - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | This resource provides practical guidance along with proven strategies for grades 5 to 8 teachers. This volume offers brand new material speciallly written for the middle grades. The grade-specific coverage and unique page design allow readers to quickly and easily locate information to implement in the classroom. Nearly 200 grade-appropriate activities are included. The student-centered, problem-based approach will help students develop real understanding and confidence in mathematics. BIG IDEAS provide clear and succinct explanations of the msot critical concepts in 5-8 mathematics. PROBLEM-BASED ACTIVITIES in chapters 2-12 provide numerous engaging tasks to help students develop understanding. ASSESSMENT NOTES illustrate how assessment can be an integral part of instruction and suggest practical assessment strategies. EXPANDED LESSONS elaborate on one activity in each chapter, providing examples for creating step-by-step lesson plans for classroom implementation. A COMPANION WEBSITE provides access to more than 50 reproducible blackline masters. Also see Elementary & Middle School Mathematics | John A. Van de Walle and LouAnn H. Lovin c.2006
$19.00 |
| TEACHING TOWARDS MUSICAL UNDERSTANDING: Handbook for the Elementary Grades (not available at this time) | This book has been written to provide a valuable resource for elementary music teachers currently working in the field who are looking for additional theoretical and pedagogical information with which to build a stronger music curriculum. It was inspired by the growing need for a Canadian textbook on elementary music education that features Canadian song materials and resources. It provides teachers with the knowledge needed to help children develop musical understanding: the ability to think and act musically with personal meaning. Each of the five main parts of the book provides significant information regarding a quality general music curriculum for students in Kindergarten to Grade 6 to help accomplish this goal. | Montgomery c.2002
$32.00 |
| TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY: Creating Student-Centred Classrooms | What happens between students and teachers when computers move into the classroom? Through the use of vivid case studies and eloquent teacher voices, the authors describe the perennial concerns of many educators: challenging the beliefs about instructional change, redefining student and teacher roles, maintaining student motivation and engagement, managing the technology-rich classroom, and integrating technology into the curriculum. This volume is an indispensable guidebook for teachers, school administrators and consultants committed to educational excellence in today’s electronic classrooms. Audience: All educators | Judith Sandholtz, et al c.1997
$15.00 |
| TeachTimer (not available at this time) | Teach time management skills on any standard overhead projector or desk top with this versatile classroom tool. TeachTimer functions as a timer, a clock, or a chronograph to bring time awareness to virtually any classroom activity. It stands alone on a desk top or table for use by small groups and includes lanyard attachment to wear on neck for outdoor use. It is adjustable from 0-5 minutes and has a pre-alarm warning. |
$40.00 |
| The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades | The Daily 5 is more than a management system or a curriculum framework - it is a structure that will help students develop the daily habits of reading, writing, and working with peers that will lead to a lifetime of independent literacy. This book not only explains the philosophy behind the structure, but shows you how to carefully and systematically train your students to participate in each of the 5 components. Explicit modeling, practice, reflecting and refining take place during the launching phase, preparing the foundation for a year of meaningful content instruction tailored to meet the unique needs of each child. The Daily 5 is a series of literacy tasks (reading to self, reading with someone, writing, word work, and listening to reading) which students complete daily while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals. | Gail Boushey & Joan Moser
$18.00 |
| THE SIX SECRETS OF CHANGE: What the best leaders do to help their organizations survive and thrive | What do we know about successful organizational change under complex conditions? Now more than ever we need answers to the change question. The six secrets - 1 Love Your Employees 2 Connect Peers With Purpose 3 Capacity Building Prevails 4 Learning Is the Work 5 Transparency Rules 6 Systems Learn - will enable you to view the lessons with a critical eye, and equip you with the capacity to discern what advice is likely to be on the right track and what advice is downright dangerous. Fullan reveals what it takes to increase the chances of bringing about deep and lasting change. This book makes the six secrets accessible, insightful, actionable and concisely communicable and also offers the guidelines to internalize them. | Michael Fullan
$10.00 |
| TOOLS FOR TEACHING: Discipline, Instruction, Motivation | This book describes the basic skills of classroom management. Sections include building a classssroom management system, building classroom structure, setting limits, raising expectations, and producing responsible behaviour. It is packed with great teacher-tested ideas for effective classroom management and would be a great reference for new teachers as well as experienced teachers. It includes strategies to improve instruction, improve discipline, and increase motivation. | Fred Jones c.2000
$19.00 |
| Understanding By Design (Expanded 2nd Edition) | What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today’s high-stakes, standards-based environment? The authors answer these and many other questions. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have revised and expanded their work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment and instruction. With an improved UbD template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. | Grant Wiggins abd Jay McTighe c.2005
$15.00 |
| Understanding By Design Professional Development Workbook | This workbook extends the ideas presented in UbD by focusing on professional development and the practical matters of curriculum design. It provides a valuable resource to educators in developing curricula and assessments with a focus on developing and deepening students’ understanding of important ideas. It contains: design templates (planning organizers based on the three stages of backward design), design standards (criteria for reviewing curricular designs as a means of continuing improvement), exercises and process tools (thought-provoking workshop activities for developing and deepening participants’ understanding of the key ideas), design tools (a variety of graphic organizers and worksheets are included to assist designers in each stage of backward design), samples (multiple examples from diverse subject areas and levels illustrate the various elements of understanding-based designs), and glossary (definitions of key terms). | Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins c.2004
$20.00 |
| Understanding School Assessment: A Parent and Community Guide to Helping Students Learn | What is assessment and why is it changing? Why are there so many tests these days? How can I tell what my child is learning? What assessment practices will benefit students most? Understanding School Assessment will help parents and community members understand the important role classroom assessment plays in school improvement and student achievement. It explains in clear terms what a healthy, balanced assessment environment looks like in schools and classrooms and what you need to know about the wide variety of assessment information coming home today. This book will help you work knowledgeably with teachers, schools, districts, and other parents and community members to create the best education environment possible for your children and the children in your community. | Jan Chappuis, Stephen Chappuis (c)2002
$12.00 |
| VISUAL STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING COMMUNICATION: Practical Supports For School and Home - NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME | This book offers a comprehensive collection of visual tools that have proven successful with students of varying ages and ability levels. It contains lots of samples and examples of visual tools and how to use them. The first goal when working with these students is to create an environment that will support communication and make communication breakdowns less likely to occur. This is accomplished in part by developing a system of visual tools and aids to increase communication effectiveness. Schedules, aids to give directions, and aids to give information, and aids to establish and communicate rules are tools designed to increase the student's understanding of what is happening around him. A second goal, improving student independence and participation, is met with the presence of visual tools. | Linda A. Hodgdon, M.Ed., CCC-SLP c.1995
$38.00 |
| What A Writer Needs | This autobiography will be a valuable text and resource book for any teacher who wants to teach their students how to improve their writing efforts. The author writes of the writing process as both a writer and a teacher. His book connects the writing of elementary students with published writers. Through vivid examples, the author shows how we can get students to create voice, character and imaginative writing beginnings and endings in our students’ writings. An excellent resource book for any teacher immersed in the writing process with their students. | Ralph Fletcher c.1993
$17.00 |
| WHAT GREAT TEACHERS DO DIFFERENTLY: 14 Things That Matter Most | This book describes the beliefs, behaviours, attitudes and interactions that form the fabric of life in our best classrooms and schools. It focuses on the specific things that great teachers do - that others do not. | Todd Whitaker c.2004
$21.00 |
| WHAT TO DO WITH THE KID WHO: Developing cooperation, self-discipline and responsibility in the classroom 2nd Edition | Do you know the kid who constantly disrupts class, or the kid who never participates, or the kid who needs special attention, or the one who always forgets his or her homework? This new edition offers updated strategies and techniques to meet the critical challenges of today’s diverse classrooms and the unique needs of their students. It includes practical applications and helps teachers put best practices into action, establishing a warm classroom climate, providing clear expectations, using authentic assessment techniques, and teaching social skills. Addressing 19 common discipline problems, this book covers a wide range of scenarios that arise in today’s classrooms and offers problem-solving techniques. | Kay Burke c.2000
$26.00 |
| WHEN KIDS CAN'T READ: What Teachers Can Do - A Guide for Teachers 6-12 | In this critical and practical text, the author shares what she has learned and shows teachers how to help struggling readers with comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, word recognition and motivation. Kylene offers teachers the comprehensive handbook they’ve needed to help readers improve their skills, their attitudes, and their confidence. Filled with student transcripts, detailed strategies, reproducible material and extensive book lists, this much anticipated guide to teaching reading both instructs and inspires. | Kylene Beers c.2003
$23.00 |
| WITH ALL DUE RESPECT: Keys for Building Effective School Discipline | For the past twenty years, teachers have been taught to deal with student behaviour by using a set of strategies known as “classroom management.” These strategies are designed to keep students on task, minimize disruptions, and maintain general control of the learning environment. Important? Absolutely - but it’s not discipline. Classroom management you can do on your own; school discipline must be done as a team. This book helps teachers develop their personal discipline skills and also teaches the essential strategies for building discipline as a team. Teachers learn how to: increase time for teaching; improve standards for student work; put the authority back in the teacher role; and decrease reliance on punishment and suspension. | Ronald G. Morrish c.2000
$11.00 |
| WRITING THROUGH CHILDHOOD: Rethinking Process and Product | The author dares us to rethink our beliefs about how we design writing workshops, use writer’s notebooks, choose appropriate genres, teach spelling, help students connect their reading to their writing, and even edit and publish students’ writing. Filled with stories and work samples of real children in a diverse urban setting, the book will inspire rich conversations in which educators ask essential questions about their own practice, including: Does my writing workshop support the notion that writing during childhood is different than writing as an adult? How can I tap into the interests and attitudes young students bring to the writing workshop? How can I approach revision with children’s sensitivities and strengths in mind? Are the genres I’ve been assigning really appropriate for young writers? How can I help young writers make deliberate and long-lasting connections to the literature they read? How can I simplify publishing so that children joyfully and frequently publish high-quality work? | Shelley Harwayne c.1991
$20.00 |
| WRITING WORKSHOP: The Essential Guide | There are a variety of approaches or programs available to teach writing, but none of them matches the writing workshop when it comes to growing strong writers. Writing workshop is a practical book providing everything a teacher needs to get the writing workshop up and running. In clear language, the authors explain the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work. Each chapter addresses an essential element, then suggests specific things a teacher can do to implement the idea under discussion. There’s also a separate chapter entitled What About Skills? which shows how to effectively teach skills in the context of writing. | Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi c.2001
$13.50 |
