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The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Instruction

The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Instruction

by Gail Boushey

All readers of any age need instruction and support that helps them become more independent and self-reflective in their work . – Gail Boushey and Joan Moser In The CAFE Book , Gail Boushey and Joan Moser present a practical, simple way to integrate assessment into daily reading and classroom discussion. The CAFE system, based on research into the habits of proficient readers, is an acronym for Comprehension,... (more)

The Daily Five: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades

The Daily Five: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades

by Gail Boushey

Do you love teaching but feel exhausted from the energy you expend cajoling, disciplining, and directing students on a daily basis? If so, you'll want to meet “The Sisters”, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. Based on literacy learning and motivation research, they created a structure called The Daily Five which has been practiced and refined in their own classrooms for ten years, and shared with thousands of teachers... (more)

Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades

Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades

by Debbie Miller

If you have ever wondered how to teach comprehension strategies to primary-age children, read on. First, 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. ... (more)

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs (2nd Edition)

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs (2nd Edition)

by Richard L. Allington

The Second Edition of this bestselling book includes a new section on No Child Left Behind as well as research sections on reading fluency, comprehension strategies, interventions for struggling readers, and vocabulary development and instruction. What Really Matters for Struggling Readers helps teachers design reading remediation and intervention programs around well-established reality- and research-based... (more)

Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work

Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work

by Debbie Diller

This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers 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:... (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)

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.

Of Primary Importance: What's Essential in Teaching Young Writers

Of Primary Importance: What's Essential in Teaching Young Writers

by Ann Marie Corgill

From the first chapter of Ann Marie Corgill's Of Primary Importance you experience the swirling energy, the sights, and the sounds of a primary classroom. "Step inside" she says, "and breathe the writing workshop air with me. Take a look at a primary classroom, and take a minute to watch and listen and see real learning, real writing in action." Throughout these pages, you'll see Ann Marie guiding her primary... (more)

Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation for All

Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation for All

by Debbie Diller

In her previous books, Literacy Work Stations and Practice with Purpose , Debbie Diller showed teachers how to productively occupy the “rest of the class” while meeting with small groups. Now Debbie turns her attention to the groups themselves and the teacher's role in small-group instruction. Making the Most of Small Groups grapples with difficult questions regarding small-group instruction in elementary... (more)

What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-based Designs

What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-based Designs

by Richard L. Allington

Literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations and a teacher-friendly framework to guide classroom teachers in designing response to intervention programs. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of response to intervention designs, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom... (more)

The Literacy Coaching Challenge: Models and Methods for Grades K-8 (Solving Problems In Teaching Of Literacy)

The Literacy Coaching Challenge: Models and Methods for Grades K-8 (Solving Problems In Teaching Of Literacy)

by Michael C. McKenna

When the goal is supporting excellent teaching, there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach. This book helps literacy coaches and administrators navigate the many choices involved in developing and fine-tuning a coaching program that offers the best fit for a particular school. The authors draw on current research as well as their extensive experience in K-8 settings. They provide clear guidance (with helpful... (more)

Hands-On Literacy Coaching

by Nancy N. Boyles

Dr. Nancy Boyles integrates literacy instruction and coaching in a step-by-step guide for all literacy coaches. Using the explicit instruction model and complete with ready-to-use strategies, charts, checklists, protocols, and teaching scenarios, this book prepares coaches to learn: 1) The content of literacy coaching: Setting the stage for literacy learning, building literacy knowledge, and reinforcing literacy... (more)

The Writing-Rich High School Classroom: Engaging Students in the Writing Workshop

The Writing-Rich High School Classroom: Engaging Students in the Writing Workshop

by Jennifer Berne

This unique resource gives teachers everything they need to set up and manage a successful writing workshop in a high school classroom. By creating a classroom centered on writing, the workshop approach helps students develop skills and strategies for mastering numerous writing tasks and genres. After introducing the workshop's fundamental principles and methods, the book explains how to guide students through the... (more)

RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know

RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know

by Mary Howard

This book is desperately needed in districts and state departments everywhere. It is loaded with interventions that are right for kids and right for the educators who serve them. It profiles RTI as a framework for increasing intentional instruction…keeping the emphasis on knowledgeable educators rather than “programs.” If this book could become a prerequisite to implementation, I fully believe that the goals of... (more)

Math for all. Differentiating instruction, grades 3/5

Math for all. Differentiating instruction, grades 3/5

by Linda Schulman Dacey

In this two-book series, teachers will find powerful strategies for adapting mathematical lessons and tasks to address the wide range of abilities, interests, and learning styles of the students in their classrooms. Each book in this research-based series contains a wealth of activities tailored to its particular K-2 or 3-5 grade span. The authors provide numerous differentiated tasks ready for classroom... (more)

Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies

Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies

by Ellin Oliver Keene

Developed by renowned author Ellin Keene, Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies is an ideal tool for assessing students' reading comprehension. This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text. The book contains four reading passages for each grade level (1-8) that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text. Each assessment is accompanied by a rubric... (more)

Constructing Meaning Through Kid-Friendly Comprehension Strategy Instruction

Constructing Meaning Through Kid-Friendly Comprehension Strategy Instruction

by Nancy N. Boyles

Good readers think about reading while they are reading. But how does a teacher teach students to apply comprehension strategies as they read? By applying the explicit teaching model to comprehension strategy instruction, Dr. Nancy Boyles offers teachers an easy, effective, and innovative approach to improve students' reading comprehension. Using her book--rich with models, teacher-talk,and real-life... (more)

I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers

I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers

by Cris Tovani

I Read It, but I Don't Get It is a practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher and staff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement—from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle... (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.

From Phonics to Fluency (2nd Edition) (Professional Development Guide Series)

From Phonics to Fluency (2nd Edition) (Professional Development Guide Series)

by Timothy V. Rasinski

From Phonics to Fluency does not stop with word study but goes beyond words and explores effective fluency instruction. The authors offer aspiring or veteran teachers workable approaches to authentic word study that students will find engaging and enjoyable. The approaches shared are based on solid literacy theory, current reading research, actual classroom application and incorporate the National Reading Panel... (more)

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by Gail Boushey

by Gail Boushey

by Debbie Miller

by Richard L. Allington

by Debbie Diller

by Stephanie Harvey

by Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi

by Ann Marie Corgill

by Debbie Diller

by Richard L. Allington

by Michael C. McKenna

by Nancy N. Boyles

by Jennifer Berne

by Mary Howard

by Linda Schulman Dacey

by Ellin Oliver Keene

by Nancy N. Boyles

by Cris Tovani

by G. Kylene Beers

by Timothy V. Rasinski