Product Description: The research is compelling: when teachers differentiate reading instruction, students learn more. But teachers are too often given the expectation of differentiation without the details on how to make it work. In No More Reading Instruction Without Differentiation, Debra Peterson and Lynn Bigelman offer an instructional framework that adapts instruction based on individual students needs and interests...read more

Product Description: Learn how tech tools can make it easier to differentiate reading instruction, so you can reach all of your students and help them increase their fluency and comprehension. This practical guide brings together evidence-based principles for differentiated reading instruction and user-friendly tech tools, to help middle level students grow as readers in fun, interactive, and engaging ways...read more

Product Description: 30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups provides an amazing framework, with a bank of engagement tools, that gets students interacting with texts. Follow this unique 4-part process to develop students’ literal, inferential, evaluative, and analytical skills: Engage: Before Reading Students use a tactile tool like a topic card or a pyramid Discuss: During Reading Students read and mark up a short text Deep-See Think: After Reading Students re-read and revise their interpretations together Connect: After Reading Students begin to transfer their understandings to other texts ...read more

Product Description: While the Common Core has made informational text a focal point in English/language arts classrooms around the country, it has also made literacy a key concern in other subjects.Teaching literacy in the disciplines and navigating informational texts are challenging prospects...read more

Product Description: 'This Is a Great Book!' is rooted in the belief that having a wide range of 'great' books to read is essential to student success as readers inside the classroom ... and beyond.   Based on extensive research, this highly readable book explores a wide range of recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages for readers of chapter books to young adult novels...read more

Reading Power promotes reading comprehension with a wealth of effective strategies that help students think as they read. Teachers will learn how to engage students and create powerful opportunities for a more interactive, thoughtful reading experience that improves comprehension.Built around the strategies that proficient readers use – or “reading powers” - the book recognizes that teachers are implementing strategies from many sources and offers simple applications that can be incorporated in any classroom.The book is organized around five reading strategies or reading powers — Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform. Each chapter includes: a song or chant to use in the classroom for each power;suggestions for introducing each reading power;sequential lessons that incorporate teacher modeling, guided practice, and independent reading;ready-to-copy pages that support the sequential lessons;The book uses authentic children's literature and includes ideas for modeling demonstrations, encouraging practice, and nurturing independent reading. Extensive lists of children's books, organized around grades and reading power, with suggestions for assembling classroom book collections, are an important part of this practical book.

Product Description: No matter the location, schools are guided by standards, including Common Core State Standards. This collection of contributions by some of the country’s leading literacy experts offers practical suggestions for implementing young adult literature to meet the demand that standards mandate for focusing on nonfiction in teaching literacy...read more

Product Description: Step back so readers can step forward When it comes to teaching reading, Gravity Goldberg declares there is a structure, one that works with your current curriculum, to help readers take charge. The way forward Gravity says lies in admiring, studying, and really getting to know your students...read more

Product Description: Lesson planning in line with the new Primary National Curriculum! Why do we teach children to read?  It is not merely to decode the words.  We teach them to derive meaning from the text, to comprehend it. To not just read the lines, but to read between the lines and even read beyond the lines...read more

Product Description: Implementation of the Common Core State Standards with the integration of children's literature can transform teaching and learning into a holistic and engaging experience.• Offers an easy-to-understand explanation of the CCSS• Defines and explains the CCSS three-prong approach to text complexity• Provides usable lesson and unit plans• Explains how to use children's literature as a primary tool for implementing the CCS...read more

Product Description: Many of our young students come to school with vast experience in the digital world but too often use digital tools in limited ways because they view technology as merely another form of entertainment. Educators William L. Bass II and Franki Sibberson believe that teachers can help students recognize their expertise in out-of-school digital reading and extend it into the world of school...read more

Product Description: As reading teachers, how do we deal with the massive shifts that digital literacy is creating? We can't abandon what we know works to keep up with the latest online-literacy fads. Yet, we need to prepare readers for a world of digital content...read more