Product Description: Language is deeply involved in learning mathematics as students both communicate and think about mathematical ideas. Because of this, teachers of English learners have particular challenges to overcome. Mathematical Thinking and Communication addresses perhaps the most significant challenge: providing access to mathematics for these students...read more

Zoom in on the academic skills students are required to learn in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language! This book cuts through all of the Common Core jargon and gets right to the heart of what students need to learn now. Big Skills for the Common Core is packed with engaging strategies you can use immediately to improve your students' literacy skills and help them retain those skills. Special features include... Charts that break down the skills for each anchor standard and put them into teacher- friendly language. BONUS! The charts highlight the big shifts for teachers for discussion and sharing. Practical strategies to help students tackle and understand complex texts. Helpful ideas for teaching argument writing, plus writing rubrics and assessment strategies. Clear information on Tier II and Tier III words and how to teach them. In addition, each section of the book ends with "Classroom Close-Ups," which take you inside real classrooms that are implementing the Common Core. You'll see the standards in action across the curriculum and get takeaway tips you can use tomorrow in your own classroom!

Product Description: An indispensable guide for all who teach in grades three through five, as well as curriculum directors, reading specialists, literacy coaches, and school administrators, Inside the Common Core Classroom: Practical ELA Strategies for Grades 3-5  presents research-based teaching ideas that integrate the Common Core Standards with the best teaching practices in the critical English language arts areas...read more

Product Description: An indispensable guide for all who teach in grades K-2, as well as curriculum directors, reading specialists, literacy coaches, and school administrators, Inside the Common Core Classroom: Practical ELA Strategies for Grades K-2  helps teachers see ideas in action in this insightful look at the key aspects and fundamental shifts of the ELA Common Core Standards for grades K-2...read more

Product Description: Your blueprint for skilled Common Core literacy alignment! This all-in-one instructional resource is your best guide to building high quality, CCCS-aligned curriculum units across Grades 6–12 easily, manageably, and effectively...read more

Product Description: Literacy—it’s not just for English teachers anymore! The new Common Core English Language Arts Standards aren’t just for English teachers. Fluent reading and writing are critically important to the study of history/social studies, science, and technical subjects, too...read more

Product Description: Bats is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

Product Description: Teaching secondary students in the content areas is hard enough under the best of circumstances. When students are not well prepared academically and also lack academic literacy skills, the challenge can seem overwhelming. Fortunately, the Freemans help secondary content-area teachers provide these students with the academic support they very desperately need...read more

Product Description: Through this strategy-driven, theory-based text, content-area teachers gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental role that reading and writing play in content-area learning. Unique to this text is the attention paid to helping teachers understand how the high school cultures students belong to affect their view of literacy and learning...read more

This comprehensive text presents reading and writing instruction from a middle school and secondary school perspective. The third edition of this text focuses primarily on the role of literacy in subject area learning. The author clearly and comprehensively details the may ways that literacy-reading and writing-interact with and support learning.

Product Description: "Kinder sind keine kleinen Erwachsenen"! Bei Kindern werden Hautkrankheiten beobachtet, die bei Erwachsenen nur in Ausnahmefällen vorkommen. Auch die klinischen Erscheinungsformen von Hautkrankheiten können bei Kindern völlig anders als bei Erwachsenen aussehen...read more

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Product Description: This book guides the use of biographies with students.