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Product Description: A volume in Contemporary Research in Education Series Editor Terry A. Osborn, Fordham University Functional literacy, cultural literacy, and progressive literacy are just a few of the many terms one can invoke when attempting to define literacy...read more

Product Description: More than 50 percent of science lessons in today s elementary textbooks use visual information to help demonstrate concepts. With Developing Visual Learning in Science, K 8, educators can help their students develop skills in interpreting photographs, charts, diagrams, figures, labels, and graphic symbols...read more

Product Description: This book provides a broad range of fiction and nonfiction passages that help students in the primary grades develop the skills necessary to excel on high-stakes writing tests.• Contains over 120 activity pages, each containing charts, clipart, maps, or other visual features• Includes original fiction and nonfiction passages modeled upon many states' standardized release questions• Supplies an answer key for every practice sheet• Provides passages organized by grade leve...read more

Product Description: "It has made me more aware of the difficulties faced by ESL students on a daily basis across the curriculum." Year 4 teacher, Lynne Cadenhead, Aberdeen "Lots of ideas that should be encompassed in the whole school plan." Key Stage One Coordinator, Susan Hills, who has taught in Durham, Norfolk and North East Lincolnshire in both Independent & State schools "It helped me to bridge the gap between two cultures...read more

Product Description: This compendium of outstanding read-aloud choices for grades pre-K–3 will enrich and extend content area instruction, helping busy teachers to meet curriculum requirements within the confines of their busy schedules.• Detailed read-aloud plans created for trade books that scaffold learning across the curriculum in grades Pre-K–3• Cites over 700 recently published children's trade books with annotations that correspond to content areas• Contains selections addressing a wide range of topics, including school and family matters, community, friendship, prejudice, and civil rights, as well as books containing funny stories, tall tales, nursery rhymes, and mysteries• Subject, title, and author indexes• Children's poetry anthologies to further scaffold learning in grades Pre-K–3• Listings of wordless books and first-chapter book...read more

Product Description: From Mary's second-grade classroom inquiries to Freida's insect investigations, Carmen's hand jive reading lessons, Nancy's poetry through photography, Julia's pláticas literarias (and more!), teachers in this book demonstrate great teaching that builds from knowledge of children and literacy education addressing standards without being constrained by them...read more

Product Description: With all the different components of literacy, planning and delivering effective literacy instruction can be overwhelming. Explore the work of collaborative literacy teams from their formation to the employment of successful student-focused strategies...read more

The new edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills. Everything you need to know to implement each strategy effectively and quickly is included in a consistent, easy-to-understand format. Each of the strategies outlines: Instructional Focus: whether the strategy develops phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and/or writing Grade Level: whether the strategy is appropriate for k-2, 3-5 or 6-8 Scaffolding English Learners: how the strategy is particularly appropriate, or how it can be adapted to better meet the needs of, English Learners Step by Step: as always, clearly outlined steps to implement the strategy Why and When to Use the Strategy: headings to determine why each strategy is appropriate and when it’s best to choose each strategy Authentic Student Samples: to model the responses strategies will receive from students The strategies are organized alphabetically and numbered for easy reference. Inside the cover is an index grouping strategies by concept, providing another helpful guide to finding the strategy needed.

Product Description: A GPS for connecting standards to lessons Translating the Common Core State Standards into an effective curriculum is at the top of many educators’ to-do list, and this book shows you how. This text familiarizes teachers and curriculum designers with the key points of the ELA core standards and demonstrates how to design effective curriculum units to align with them...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

Product Description: * Finalist--Association of Educational Publishers 2013 Distinguished Achievement Award *Principals will discover practical strategies for strengthening and improving reading programs using the foundation established by the authors' six truths of reading instruction...read more

Product Description: Nearly every state has independently adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), making this practical guide an indispensable resource for grades 3-5 teachers and teachers-in-training. Leading authorities explain each of the English language arts (ELA) standards and vividly show how to implement them...read more

''Dyson's ethnographies offer new ways of thinking about writing time and remind us of the importance of play, talk, and social relationships in children's literacy learning. If every literacy researcher could write like Dyson, teachers would want to read about research! If policymakers took her insights on board, classrooms might become more respectful and enjoyable spaces for literacy teaching and learning that soar way above the basics.'' -- Barbara Comber, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaWhat are the real ''basics'' of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in children's worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and regimented class routines work against young children's natural social learning processes. Readers will have a front-row seat in Mrs. Bee's kindergarten and Mrs. Kay's 1st-grade class, where these dedicated teachers taught writing basics in schools serving predominately low-income children of color. The children, it turns out, had their own expectations for one another's actions during writing time. Driven by desires for companionship and meaning, they used available linguistic and multimodal resources to construct their shared lives. In so doing, they stretch, enrich, and ultimately transform our own understandings of the basics. ReWRITING the Basics goes beyond critiquing traditional writing basics to place them in the linguistic diversity and multimodal texts of children's everyday worlds. This engaging work:* Illustrates how scripted, uniform curricula can reduce the resources of so-called ''at-risk'' children.* Provides insight into how children may situate writing within the relational ethics and social structures of childhood cultures.* Offers guiding principles for creating a program that will expand children's possibilities in ways that are compatible with human sociability. * Includes examples of children's writing, reflections on research methods, and demographic tables.