Support students' deep comprehension of complex text with this practical, standards-based resource. Featuring easy-to-use lessons that focus on informational/explanatory text samples, argumentative text samples, or narrative text samples, each lesson is tailored toward specific grade spans and includes step-by-step instructions on how to work with and improve students' close reading skills.
Through rich practice, students will critically examine texts using key strategies for close reading and writing that can be applied to any text. By implementing the techniques and strategies outlined in this book, students will become more prepared for college and career, become strong global thinkers, and will be able to meet the standards and expectations of 21st-century learners.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Reading Strategies for Fiction
Grade: 1-12
Price: $39.99
Created to support current standards, this book provides an in-depth research base about literacy instruction, and includes key strategies to help students read and comprehend fiction.
Writing Strategies for Fiction
Grade: 1-12
Price: $39.99
Created to support current standards, this book provides an in-depth research base about literacy instruction, and includes key strategies to help students write about and comprehend fiction.
TDQs: Strategies for Building Text-Dependent Questions
Grade: K-12
Price: $45.99
Use effective questions across all grade levels to improve comprehension. This innovative resource provides teachers with the tools needed to effectively instruct using text-dependent questions.
Strategies for Writing from Sources
Grade: K-12
Price: $45.99
This how-to guide provides teachers with all of the information they need to help their students write from sources. This book is divided into sections based on five different types of sources that students are expected to use in their writing.
180 Days of Problem Solving for Kindergarten
Grade: K
Price: $22.99
Demystify word problems with this book that provides daily practice for boosting skills. With the changes in standards, there is a greater need to implement lessons that provide a deeper understanding of how these concepts apply in real-life situations.
180 Days of High-Frequency Words for Kindergarten
Grade: K
Price: $22.99
Build reading skills and increase your students' ability to recognize sight words instantly with 180 Days of High-Frequency Words for Kindergarten. This series features quick, easy-to-use daily word study activities.