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 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.

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Product Description: The Ethical Educator addresses critical aspects of ethical conduct related to teaching and teacher research. Identifying strategies and opportunities for reflection, it seeks to guide teachers and researchers in their quest for adherence to the highest level of ethical standards within their practice...read more

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