Showcasing assessment practices that can help teachers plan effective instruction, this book addresses the real-world complexities of teaching literacy in grades K-8. Leading contributors present trustworthy approaches that examine learning processes as well as learning products, that yield information on how the learning environment can be improved, and that are conducted in the context of authentic reading and writing activities. The volume provides workable, nuts-and-bolts ideas for incorporating assessment into instruction in all major literacy domains and with diverse learners, including students in high-poverty schools and those with special learning needs. It is illustrated throughout with helpful concrete examples.

Product Description: Second-grade classrooms are exciting places to visit. Children are consolidating their growing reading and writing expertise, exploring new genres, and becoming more effective communicators. This book takes the reader into several exemplary second-grade classrooms to demonstrate what teachers can do to optimize literacy learning for their students...read more

Everything a dictionary should be--comprehensive, up to date, and easy to use--this superb reference features 180,000 entries in a single, instantly accessible alphabetical listing. Features high-quality, acid-free paper, gold-stamped cover, and the same superb editorial features as the regular edition. 800 drawings, maps, and diagrams.

Product Description: Changing the way you teach writing requires changing the way you understand the process of writing. The chapters in this collection bring together the perspectives of university researchers and classroom teachers so you see the explicit connection between writing theory and practice...read more

Product Description: This book provides direction to teachers who wish to work collaboratively with linguistically and culturally-different parents to increase children's opportunities to learn both at home and at school. Opening Doors, Opening Opportunities describes the development and implementation of the Intergenerational Literacy Project, a family literacy project for immigrant parents and their children...read more

Product Description: Peer Talk in the Classroom: Learning from Research will help teachers and researchers uncover the connections between what is known about language and literacy acquisition and how teachers can create conditions for peer talk in a variety of settings...read more