Product Description: Guided reading has long been recognized as a dynamic process that supports children's skills as readers in all genres, yet fiction accounts for over ninety percent of the texts we select for these small-group encounters. If children are to be empowered, life-long readers, who read for many different purposes, they need concentrated, small-group encounters with informational texts...read more

Provides insight into why students struggle with reading comprehension, and offers practical skills and strategies to help them understand what they read.

Product Description: Journey with Tony Stead as he explores many amazing ways to make nonfiction reading and writing come alive in the classroom. This four-part video set takes you inside two classrooms at The Manhattan New School where Tony works with first-grade teacher Lauren Benjamin and third-grade teacher Lisa Elias Moynihan...read more

Examines the opposing viewpoints of a fourth-grade class on whether zoos are helpful or harmful to animals, written in persuasive language and designed to help readers come to their own conclusions.

Book by Gentry, J. Richard, Ph.D., Mann, Jean, Pott, Lynn, Stead, Tony, Trauernicht, Margaret

Product Description: Based on natural learning theories, this book for elementary teachers aims to integrate math into the broader curriculum through the exploration of facts, skills, and concepts in relevant and meaningful contexts. It also seeks to create a collaborative learning environment and provides innovative evaluation methods that depart from traditional means of testing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)