Product Description: Explore plaster's potential to create practical and decorative objects, without the need for a kiln.

Product Description: "When we value kids' writing enough to use it to teach other kids, all kids grow into stronger writers. Thanks, Lisa, for writing this important book. I needed it, teachers need it, and the field needs it." -Stephanie Harvey "If students know we believe in them, that the content of their writing matters, more kids will take a risk and try some new things-even if they don't know how to spell all the words or punctuate all the sentences correctly...read more

Product Description: A collection of articles from the National Geographic Native American Series. Articles include: Towering Totems and the Legend of the Orca.

Product Description: A collection of articles for the National Geographic Around the World Series. Articles include Welcome to Kenya, The Mighty Maasai, The Elephant and the Hare.

Product Description: A collection of articles from the National Geographic Communities We Live In Series. Articles include Prickly Plants and Desert Pen Pals.

Product Description: A collection of articles from the National Geographic Communities We Live In Series. Articles include Prairie Dog Towns, Cyrus Heading West and Kids on the Plains.

Product Description: A collection of articles for the National Geographic Around the World Series. Articles include Into the Rain Forest, Let's go to Carnival and How Beetle Got Her Coat

Product Description: A collection of articles for the National Geographic Around the World Series. Articles include Welcome to China, Rice, and The Thief and the Elephant.

Product Description: A collection of articles for the National Geographic Around the World Series. Articles include Welcome to India and the Foolish Timid Rabbit.

Product Description: "We turn information into knowledge by thinking about it. These texts support students in using the Toolkit's comprehension and thinking strategies as tools to acquire and actively use knowledge in history." -Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis To support cross-curricular strategy instruction and close reading for information, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have expanded their Toolkit Texts series to include a library of short nonfiction for American history with 10 all-new Toolkit lessons...read more

Product Description: Next-generation lessons for today’s student writers These 20 high-energy projectable lessons for grades 4-8 harness the brevity and potency of poetry for teaching the intricate skills behind writing well in any subject. The 100 poems―set against vivid full-color photographs and graphics on more than 500 slides―serve as a springboard for activities in which students read, discuss, and write to meet the literacy objectives of the Common Core: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and meanings Interpret words and phrases Analyze the structure of texts Produce clear and coherent writing Present information, findings, and supporting evidence...read more

Product Description: A collection of articles linked together by the topic of the moon's mysteries

Product Description: "This staff development resource helps coaches and administrators maximize teacher effectiveness through collaborative and collegial staff development." Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, and Angela Butler Schroden Teachers matter. Effective comprehension instruction is more than a handful of reading strategies...read more

Product Description: "We have created the lessons in these books to help teachers give their English language learners the conceptual background and English language structures they need to collaborate fully in each Toolkit lesson." Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, Brad Buhrow, and Anne Upczak-Garcia The Comprehension Toolkit's inclusive whole-group instruction sets a high comprehension bar for ALL students...read more

Product Description: "We have created the lessons in these books to help teachers give their English language learners the conceptual background and English language structures they need to collaborate fully in each Toolkit lesson." Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, Brad Buhrow, and Anne Upczak-Garcia The Comprehension Toolkit's inclusive whole-group instruction sets a high comprehension bar for ALL students...read more

Product Description: "These articles lend themselves to active reading, giving kids a great place to annotate and work out their thinking as they read." --Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis In response to the overwhelming demand for more high-quality, age-appropriate nonfiction texts, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have developed the four-volume series Toolkit Texts: Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice...read more

Product Description: "These are the tried and true lessons I return to year after year. The lessons that students said made a difference in their writing and that will bring power and beauty to your students' writing and to your writing classroom." Leslie Blauman, author of The Inside Guide to the Reading-Writing Classroom "What's wrong with a little mentorship?" Leslie Blauman asks...read more

Product Description: "The real genius of this book is that it is written by teachers, for teachers. All of the authors in this book know what classrooms are like. This means that authenticity and integrity pervade every chapter in the book. Teachers will immediately sense this authenticity on their way to realizing that the book offers an endless supply of useful suggestions...read more

Product Description: "Children are eager to find out what's in the world and how it works. Kids are ready to work hard, not because we 'motivate' them, but because they want to know stuff. As teachers we can draw on all the curiosity, energy, and comprehending experience that kids bring to school, and we systematically link it to the skills and strategies that more experienced learners use...read more

Product Description: "When it comes to learning reading comprehension strategies children differ. They learn in fits and starts. What works for one may not work for another. For some it's a matter of time, for others a matter of interest. Some kids take these strategies and run with them after one whole-group Toolkit lesson...read more

Product Description: 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 background knowledge plays in understanding...read more

Product Description: Inferring, questioning, determining importance. It's not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies...read more

Product Description: Reading is a social act. We all love to talk about what we read, whether sharing the latest novel with a friend, reacting to an outrageous editorial with a colleague, or exploring a picture book with a child. Kids are no different—when they have opportunities to think and talk about their reading, they explode with thoughts, questions, and ideas...read more

Product Description: Grades K-8   In What Every Teacher Should Know About Reading Comprehension Instruction, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis give teachers, administrators, and literacy specialists the chance to listen in as they interview renowned reading researcher and comprehension theorist P...read more