Grade 1

Dive into Close Reading: Strategies for Your K-2 Classroom

Give grades K-2 students the tools they need to be successful using this must-have guide. It includes sample lessons showing the key elements of a close reading lesson as well as strategies for analyzing and selecting a text and how to support students.

Get the Picture: Visual Literacy in Content-Area Instruction

This resource equips teachers with innovative strategies to develop students' visual literacy skills, teach students to analyze visual texts, comprehend both explicit and implicit messages, and engage in meaningful discussion.

Guided Math Workshop

This must-have resource helps teachers plan, organize, implement, and manage Guided Math Workshop. It provides practical strategies to allow time for teachers to conduct small-group lessons and math conferences to target student needs.

Guided Math: A Framework for Mathematics Instruction Second Edition

This 2nd edition takes an innovative approach to mathematics, using the same teaching philosophies as guided reading. This instructional framework provides an environment for math that fosters mathematical thinking and meets the needs of all students.

Teaching Social Studies Today 2nd Edition

This updated resource provides educators with the tools to implement standards-based social studies curriculum that will help raise the level of social studies education at each specific grade level, and incorporate all dimensions of the C3 framework.

Mathematical Discourse: Let the Kids Talk!

This resource provides teachers with the tools they need to facilitate mathematical discourse in the 21st century classroom and create opportunities for students to think constructively, communicate effectively, and increase mathematics proficiency.

Clothesline Math: The Master Number Sense Maker

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.

The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop

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.

Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments

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.

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom, 2nd Edition

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.

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning (Second Edition)

This invaluable resource provides novice and experienced educators with a pedagogical framework for implementing culturally and linguistically responsive strategies in today's diverse classrooms.

Managing an Early Childhood Classroom

Create and manage an effective and developmentally-appropriate early childhood classroom! Filled with management suggestions and recommendations for young children's development, this guide provides ready-to-use lessons and templates to enhance learning.

Fluency Through Practice and Performance

Discover strategies for incorporating fluency instruction into your daily reading routines and easily incorporate it into instruction.

Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Supporting Rigorous Literacy Instruction

Meet the challenges of educating students with this balanced, whole-child approach to rigorous reading instruction. This updated, best-selling book co-published with the International Literacy Association (ILA) offers over 125 engaging techniques!

Building Academic Language through Content-Area Text: Strategies to Support ELLs

Set the stage for effective academic language instruction with strategies that are designed specifically for English language learners and support content-area literacy using informational text.

180 Days: Hands-On STEAM: Grade 1

Guided Math Conferences

Use conferencing successfully within your Guided Math classroom with this resource full of suggestions, tips, management, and implementation methods.

Implementing Guided Math: Tools for Educational Leaders

Support the implementation of the Guided Math framework with this guide by Laney Sammons. This resource provides school leaders with strategies for supporting teachers as they embark on teaching the components of the framework in their classrooms.

Connecting Content and Language for English Language Learners

Bridge the gap between content and language and put research into practice to instruct English language learners with strategies that meet their needs in language development and literacy.

Teaching with Text Sets

Increase student engagement, differentiate instruction, and integrate more informational texts into the curriculum. This product provides sample text sets and models as well as provides guidance in how to teach with text sets and put them into action.

Just the Facts: Close Reading and Comprehension of Informational Text

Effectively use informational text in the classroom! This resource provides a clear explanation of engaging strategies for instruction with informational text and includes practical tips, suggestions, lesson ideas, and digital resources.

Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy

This easy-to-follow guide is filled with practical approaches to help teachers transition towards a balanced literacy framework. It offers simple techniques to nurture reading and writing skills through reading and writing activities.

Building Mathematical Comprehension: Using Literacy Strategies to Make Meaning

This resource applies familiar reading comprehension strategies and relevant research to mathematics instruction to aid in building students' comprehension in mathematics.

Fostering Writing in Today's Classroom

Create enthusiastic writers and facilitate a positive learning environment with this easy-to-implement instructional resource that includes current research on topics such as managing Writer's Workshop, teaching the 5-step writing process, and more!