Product Description: The Developing Core Literacy Proficiencies program is an integrated set of English Language Arts/Literacy units spanning grades 6-12 that provide student-centered instruction on a set of literacy proficiencies at the heart of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)...read more

Product Description: Created specifically for middle school teachers, Pam Allyn’s dynamic Core Ready Program provides a complete toolkit for navigating and thriving with the core standards. In it teachers see clearly how to take complex concepts of the literacy standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday instruction...read more

Product Description: As schools shift to the Common Core, many English language arts teachers are left with questions about how their classrooms should look. Is fiction out? Can I still do strategy instruction? Does close reading mean deliberating on each word? Finally, there’s a resource with all of these answers and more...read more

Product Description: The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research...read more

Product Description: ''Accelerating Literacy for Diverse Learners meets the national mandate for coherent and systematic approaches to professional development for teachers working with CLD students. It does so in a manner that links theory and practice and provides research-based, practice-oriented, and meaningful strategies for teachers...read more

Product Description: Schools nationwide are transitioning to the Common Core--our advice to you: Don't go it alone! Our new book, Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans: Ready-to-Use Resources, 6-8, shows you that teaching the Common Core State Standards in the middle grades doesn't have to be intimidating! This easy-to-use guide meets the particular needs of middle school teachers...read more

This book is part of Pam Allyn’s highly popular Core Ready program, a dynamic series of books that gives educators critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. Using the information presented in the series, educators see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. The books address the needs of all learners, including ELL and special needs diverse learners, and cover the uses of technology and new media.   The Power to Persuade focuses on the understanding and recognition of the essential structures of opinion and argument through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Included are lesson sets on:   Grade K–I Have a Voice: What Is an Opinion? Grade 1–What I Think and Why: Supporting Ideas with Reason Grade 2–5Ws and 1H: Advertising and Promotional Writing   The grade K lessons lay the foundation for understanding opinions. The grade 1 lessons build on this understanding and introduce the concept of using evidence and reason to support an opinion. And the grade 2 lessons put the skills to work in a rigorous but exciting and fun set of lessons with real-world implications that bring the ideas to life. Additional attention is devoted to developing effective listening, conversation, and speaking behaviors when discussing, collaborating, or debating with peers.   With this book as a guide student see how to: Recognize and develop opinion and argument through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Foster an awareness of purpose and point of view by examining the views of others and developing individual ideas and voice. Consider their own passions, viewpoints, and reasoning by exploring opinion in real life, literature, and a variety of persuasive genres. Practice effective listening, conversation, and oral speaking behaviors. Visit http://pdtoolkit.pearson.com to purchase access to the PDToolkit for Pam Allyn's Core Ready Series. The PDToolkit access does not come with the print book.   PDToolkit for Pam Allyn's Core Ready Series is a supplemental online subscription-based resource that provides the tools that educators need to implement the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. The PDToolkit, together with the texts, provides the tools you need to ensure a standards-aligned year of joyful, effective, research-based literacy curriculum.

Product Description: This book is part of Pam Allyn’s highly popular Core Ready series, a dynamic series of books that gives educators critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. Using the information presented in the series, educators see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons...read more

Product Description: The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research guides teachers and students through three rich, dynamic lesson sets that focus on informational texts in the primary grades in ways that enliven inform, and inspire. With these lessons as a guide, students learn how to use the unique text features and structure of informational text to notice patterns and identify key ideas and concepts while building a vocabulary of domain-specific language...read more

Product Description: "Creative Curriculum Extenders: Projects for the Language Arts Classroom" is an easy-to-use source of reading and writing curriculum projects that tie to the National Literacy Standards and help teachers differentiate instruction...read more