Teachers share advice on creating successful literacy classrooms for all students, including those who struggle This much-needed resource is filled with lively and inspiring stories from teachers who overcame challenges with underperforming and struggling learners-many of them special needs students-to make significant breakthroughs in reading and writing instruction. The teachers reveal their trials, errors, and triumphs in how they discovered particular instructional strategies or incorporated modeling and motivational techniques that best addressed students' learning needs and opened a path to success. Compelling and absorbing, the book includes unusual and often surprising approaches for connecting with students, including books that made a difference. Offers wisdom, inspiration, and guidance on working with varied students to improve reading and writing skills Contains 29 stories from real-world teachers who have had success in teaching literacy Summary sections focus on key breakthrough strategies, lessons learned, reflection questions, actions tips, and recommended resources Describes effective modeling, motivational, and engagement practices

Product Description: This practical resource for building children's vocabulary and comprehension skills provides word lists, literature selections, writing prompts, and suggestions for read-alouds and think-alouds.

Product Description: This reader-friendly resource examines the key elements of Early Reading First to help teachers foster the language, cognitive, and early reading skills critical to young children's success in kindergarten.

Product Description: Here is the ideal guide for the conscientious educator dedicated to moving students toward better literacy, a comprehensive, interactive resource that helps you examine, and improve, your teaching behavior and pedagogy. Designed to help develop the literacy teacher's awareness of how behaviors can effect instruction in the classroom, this book takes you on an inner teaching journey that helps you use self-reflection as a motivation for change...read more

Product Description: Today more than ever, educators are challenged to meet the literacy needs of all learners in increasingly diverse classrooms. To help you meet this challenge, author Susan E. Israel will show you how to use metacognitive assessments to adapt literacy instruction to your elementary students individual needs...read more

Product Description: Make informed decisions about the future of reading instruction by exploring the lives and lasting contributions of early literacy leaders who helped shape the field. ''Shaping the Reading Field'' documents the lives of 16 reading researchers, reading practitioners, and specialists in children's literature and adult reading...read more

The authors offer higher-level thinking and reading strategies that promote achievement for all students, with resources to build collaborative literacy, stimulate creativity, develop richer comprehension, and more.

Product Description: A year's worth of thought-provoking quotations will inspire you to reflect on the way you teach and provide you with tools to inspire your students, too!

Product Description: Are you looking for new ways to engage and inspire your students to read and write? Or do you need a little inspiration for your own daily teaching? The literacy-themed poems in this anthology -- reprinted from the premier journal for literacy educators, The Reading Teacher -- give teachers, literacy coaches, and parents a new way to enhance literacy learning...read more

Product Description: Packed with enriching ideas for all educators, this guide summarizes the key areas of the Reading First program to provide a comprehensive understanding of its components.

Product Description: This volume provides the first comprehensive, research-based examination of metacognition in literacy learning. Bringing together research findings from reading, linguistics, psychology, and education, it is logically organized as follows: Part I provides the theoretical foundation that supports the teaching of metacognition; Parts II and III provide new methods for metacognitive assessment and instruction in literacy contexts at all grade levels; and Part IV provides new information on integrating metacognition into professional development programs...read more