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Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

In clear language, Fletcher and Portalupi explain the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work.

Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle-Level Teacher

Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle-Level Teacher

by Rick Wormeli

Rick Wormeli is the teacher you would like to have on your team or in the room next door. from the Foreword by Ed Brazee Drawing on the wisdom of educators, researchers, and twenty years of personal experience in the middle school classroom, Rick Wormeli lays out a clear vision of what responsive middle-level teaching can be in Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle-Level Teacher. Both a... (more)

The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

by Parker J. Palmer

"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life." - Parker J. Palmer <from the Introduction> Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care... (more)

In the Middle : New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning

In the Middle : New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning

by Nancie Atwell

Nancie Atwell reflects on the ten years of her teaching experience since writing the first edition of the seminal work, In the Middle.

Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom

Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom

by Jim Fay, David Funk

Available for the first time in paperback. Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximize classroom learning time. Discover why Love and Logic works in the school environment and understand the psychological reasons for its effectiveness.... (more)

Side by Side: Essays on Teaching to Learn (Workshop Series)

Side by Side: Essays on Teaching to Learn (Workshop Series)

by Nancie Atwell

Nancie Atwell explores the conditions that make it possible for childrenand their teachersto become writers and readers.

Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop

Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop

by Susan Zimmermann, Ellin Oliver Keene

How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level?

The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

by Katie Wood Ray, Lester L. Laminack

Craft Lessons 2nd Edition

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

Craft is the cauldron in which the writing gets forged. Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi argue that too often we concentrate on the beginning and ending of the writing process—conceiving and correcting—while leaving students on their own to make a thousand critical decisions in their writing about crafting leads, voice, structure, supporting detail, setting, mood, and character. What elements of craft can we... (more)

Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12

Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12

by Janet Allen

Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to comprehend reading in literacy and content classes? Are you looking for a way to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your school or classroom so all students receive support in becoming competent and confident readers? In Yellow Brick Roads, Janet Allen offers research-based methods for helping teachers move toward these goals. This book... (more)

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

Writing nonfiction represents a big step for most students. Most young writers are not intimidated by personal narrative, fiction, or even poetry, but when they try to put together a "teaching book," report, or persuasive essay, they often feel anxious and frustrated. JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher believe that young nonfiction writers supply plenty of passion, keen interest, and wonder. Teachers can provide... (more)

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

by G. Kylene Beers

For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of the text.

Art of Teaching Reading, The

by Lucy McCormick Calkins

Written in Calkins' graceful and passionate style, The Art of Teaching Reading serves as an eloquent and desperately needed reminder of what matters most in teaching. Incredibly valuable resource for current and future teachers and educators. Offers a wealth of practical classroom examples to demonstrate principles and methods in practice. "I can think of no one in New York City who is more trusted... (more)

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

by Stephanie Harvey

Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating... (more)

The Inner Game of Tennis

by W. Timothy Gallwey

The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. Now available in a revised paperback edition, this classic bestseller can change the way the game of tennis is played.

6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide (Grades 3 and Up)

6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide (Grades 3 and Up)

by Ruth Culham

Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing With This Powerful Model Blueprint for Writing Instruction! Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits. Think of them as the fuel that stokes the engine of writing.

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

by Jonathan Kozol

National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.

"You Gotta Be the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading With Adolescents (Language and Literacy Series (Teachers College Pr))

"You Gotta Be the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading With Adolescents (Language and Literacy Series (Teachers College Pr))

by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

Through textured case studies of engaged and relectant readers, this text addresses the following issues: what do highly engaged, adolescent readers do as they read?; what is it about traditional schooling, reading instruction and literary instruction that deters engaged reading and serves to disenfranchise young readers?; how can interventions like dramatic and artistic responses to literature be used in... (more)

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

by Mark A. Noll

“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his judgment, Mark Noll ask why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little... (more)

Image Grammar : Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing(Bk & Cdrom)

Image Grammar : Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing(Bk & Cdrom)

by Harry R. Noden

For decades, scholars have urged teachers to integrate grammar and writing, yet few have provided teachers with enough strategies and materials to do so. With this ground-breaking book, Harry Noden meets this need in a unique way.

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by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

by Rick Wormeli

by Parker J. Palmer

by Nancie Atwell

by Jim Fay, David Funk

by Nancie Atwell

by Susan Zimmermann, Ellin Oliver Keene

by Katie Wood Ray, Lester L. Laminack

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

by Janet Allen

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

by G. Kylene Beers

by Lucy McCormick Calkins

by Stephanie Harvey

by W. Timothy Gallwey

by Ruth Culham

by Jonathan Kozol

by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

by Mark A. Noll

by Harry R. Noden