Today's students must know how to write for a variety of purposes and audiences. Create an innovative and collaborative classroom environment where students enjoy writing with this standards-based resource. Grades 3-12 students will learn key strategies to improve their writing skills based on their interests in technology, social media, and other relevant and contemporary topics.
Teachers are provided with engaging ideas to support writing instruction across all content areas including suggestions for differentiation and assessment. Students will implement tools for thinking, processing, and reflecting to develop college and career readiness skills. Each section is devoted to an essential skill with several activities that can be used to teach each skill and there are 26 skill-specific strategies. Chapters include:
With background information, practical activities, useful tips, and fun anecdotes, this is an essential resource for teaching writing in 21st century classrooms.
Clothesline Math: The Master Number Sense Maker
Grade: K-12
Price: $45.99
Implement Clothesline Math and teach number sense in K-12 classrooms! This essential resource includes the materials that teachers need to conduct Clothesline Math lessons, and techniques for effectively facilitating the ensuing mathematical discourse.
Integrated English Language Development
Grade: K-12
Price: $31.99
This powerful resource defines and supports the implementation of Integrated English Language Development (I-ELD) and provides research-based instructional strategies to immerse students in content while promoting oral and written language development.
Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
This resource defines social and emotional learning and digs into the real work of incorporating SEL in K-12 schools. It makes the connection between research and practical application through real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom.
The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
Newbery Medal-winning author Kwame Alexander shows how to shake up the traditional writing workshop to make writing fun again. Using his techniques and strategies, you'll invigorate the writing workshop and motivate even the most reluctant writers.
Making and Writing Words: Grades K-1
Grade: K-1
Price: $59.99
Making and Writing Words: Grades 2-3
Grade: 2-3
Price: $59.99
Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies
Grade: 1-8
Price: $29.99
This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text and features four reading passages for each grade level (1-8) that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text.
Using Primary Sources in the Classroom, 2nd Edition
Grade: K-12
Price: $39.99
Turn your classrooms into primary source learning environments! With more than 100 digital primary sources, fun activities, and model lesson plans, this resource contains everything needed to successfully teach with primary sources.
Building Vocabulary with Greek and Latin Roots: A Professional Guide to Word Knowledge and Vocabulary Development
Grade: K-12
Price: $31.99
This teacher-friendly, 2nd edition resource provides the latest research on how to teach Greek and Latin roots. It includes strategies for improving comprehension, planning instructional routines, and building a word-rich learning environment.
Document-Based Assessment Activities, 2nd Edition
Grade: K-12
Price: $49.99
Today's students need opportunities to evaluate sources and use evidence to support their conclusions. This K-12 resource provides both instructional support for teachers as well as a myriad of differentiated learning opportunities for students.
Writing Strategies for the Content Areas 2nd Edition Set
Grade: K-12
Price: $119.97
Help students write mathematics, social studies, and science content! This 3-book set provides standards-based strategies to help them write and comprehend content-area content.
Social Studies Strategies for Active Learning
Grade: 3-12
Price: $99.99
Make history in your classroom with an engaging, integrated approach to active social studies learning. Motivate your students with powerful strategies for brainstorming, language arts integration, discussion, primary sources, and deductive reasoning.
