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Grade: PK-1
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Use these effective and practical approaches for teaching alphabet recognition to young children. The instructional activities follow a consistent pattern using materials that are readily available in early childhood classrooms.
Managing an Early Childhood Classroom
Grade: PK-2
$24.99Grade: PK-2
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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.
Reading and Responding: A Guide to Literature
Grade: PK-5
$12.99Grade: PK-5
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Introduce students to literary texts to help them become active and enthusiastic readers! From alphabet books to poetry, chapter books to read-alouds, this teacher-friendly resource is a must-have!
Understanding Learning Styles: Making a…
Grade: PK-12
$29.99Grade: PK-12
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This resource helps teachers determine the learning style of each student and the appropriate delivery methods to target and address the needs of as many of the intelligences as possible.
You Can't Just Say It Louder! Differentiated…
Grade: PK-12
$29.99Grade: PK-12
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This dynamic book provides the foundation you need to confidently and successfully teach comprehension to a diverse population of students.
Dive into Close Reading: Strategies for Your…
Grade: K-2
$45.99Grade: K-2
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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.
Grade: K-2
$39.99Grade: K-2
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Equip teachers with the strategies needed to teach persuasive writing. This essential classroom resource teaches K-2 students how to evaluate arguments, form opinions, and support and present their ideas with logic, reason, and evidence.
Grade: K-8
$45.99Grade: K-8
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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…
Grade: K-8
$45.99Grade: K-8
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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.
Grade: K-8
$45.99Grade: K-8
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Adequately address the shifts in mathematics instruction to meet the demands of the Common Core and other new state standards with this comprehensive guide. Teachers will be empowered to build lessons, templates, and exemplars for practical application.
Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy
Grade: K-8
$45.99Grade: K-8
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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.
Vocabulary Instruction for Academic Success
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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Based on current research, this user-friendly resource provides vocabulary development strategies that are grouped together according to purpose.
Greek and Latin Roots: Keys to Building…
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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Enhance instruction with an in-depth understanding of how to incorporate word roots into vocabulary lessons in all content areas.
Professional Learning Communities: Using…
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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This practical resource demonstrates how to use data in decision making to improve student learning by promoting a school-wide learning community.
A Baker's Dozen of Lessons Learned from the…
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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Maximize your effectiveness in the classroom with this practical "tried-and true" resource. This enjoyable book provides valuable insights and strategies to use in the classroom tomorrow!
The 5Es of Inquiry-Based Science
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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Create an active learning environment in grades K-12 using the 5E inquiry-based science model! Featuring a practical guide to implementing the 5E model of instruction, this resource clearly explains each "E" in the 5E model of inquiry-based science.
Common Sense Assessment in the Classroom
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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Take the mystery out of assessment and understand how to successfully implement it into instruction with this comprehensive guide!
Bringing Joy Back into the Classroom
Grade: K-12
$24.99Grade: K-12
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Aimed at motivating teachers to create a welcoming and challenging environment for their students, this professional book is told through a series of anecdotes and stories and remind teachers of the intrinsic rewards of teaching.
What's Your Math Problem!?! Getting to the…
Grade: K-12
$24.99Grade: K-12
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Dig into problem solving and reflect on current teaching practices with this exceptional resource. Meaningful instructional tools and methods are provided to help teachers understand each problem solving strategy and how to use it with their students.
Science for English Language Learners
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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Effectively build students' language skills while developing their scientific understanding. Using the inquiry-based 5E model of instruction, this product offers valuable strategies for developing students' scientific content knowledge.
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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Build students' creativity while implementing standards-based instruction! This resource helps teachers learn to merge teaching the standards and creative-thinking strategies in order to help students solve problems, think effectively, and be innovative.
Active Learning Across the Content Areas
Grade: K-12
$31.99Grade: K-12
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Transform your classroom into an active learning environment with innovative strategies that motivate students to put learning into their own hands. Research-based strategies work to engage students with hands-on activities and improve critical thinking.
Using Technology to Improve Reading and…
Grade: K-12
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New classroom uses for technology are introduced in this easy-to-use resource that help educators enhance students' attention, engagement, creativity, and collaboration in reading and learning.
Orchestrating School Change: Transforming…
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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This resource provides concrete examples and strong research models as well as practical applications that school leaders and administrators at any level can use to support implementation of any strategic initiative.
Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
Grade: K-12
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Developed by social studies specialists, this resource helps teachers turn classrooms into primary source learning environments. This book offers effective, creative strategies for integrating primary source materials and providing cross-curricular ideas.
Grade: K-12
$39.99Grade: K-12
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Discover and implement effective ways for students to develop conceptual understandings, complex thinking skills, and habits of mind using an inquiry-based approach. Teachers learn how to embed the inquiry process into instruction across content areas.
Grade: K-12
$39.99Grade: K-12
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As an important tool for instruction and text selection, this timely resource helps teachers learn to evaluate children's and young adult literature and informational text for quality and complexity to support rigorous literacy and content learning.
TDQs: Strategies for Building Text-Dependent…
Grade: K-12
$45.99Grade: K-12
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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.
Writing Is Magic, Or Is It? Using Mentor Texts to…
Grade: K-12
$39.99Grade: K-12
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Help students become strong writers and support their understanding of mentor texts with this practical, standards-based resource that dives deep into multiple genres such as poetry, narration, informational texts, literary nonfiction, and persuasion.
Reading, Writing, and Rhythm: Engaging…
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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Lead students toward mastering content-specific knowledge and literacy skills with engaging activities such as creating raps, scripts, and discussions. This product uses innovative approaches to teach content-area material by integrating the arts.
Analyzing and Writing with Primary Sources
Grade: K-12
$45.99Grade: K-12
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Winner of the 2017 Golden Lamp Award for Classroom Professional Resources, this practical, standards-based resource dives deeply into the use of primary sources to support the development of students' close reading and writing skills.
Connect to Text: Strategies for Close Reading…
Grade: K-12
$45.99Grade: K-12
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Dive into the use of close reading in classroom instruction with this practical, standards-based resource featuring easy-to-use lessons that focus on informational/explanatory, argumentative, or narrative text samples to improve students' reading skills.
Strategies for Writing from Sources
Grade: K-12
$45.99Grade: K-12
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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.
Grade: K-12
$31.99Grade: K-12
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Make over your reading routine with fun activities that will engage even the most reluctant readers. This action plan offers techniques to ignite a passion for readers of all levels.
Strategies for Implementing Writer's…
Grade: K-12
$45.99Grade: K-12
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This comprehensive guide provides teachers with techniques to engage students as they strengthen their writing skills. Whether working with small groups or the entire classroom, this workbook gives lesson plans geared to students of various ages.
Taming the Wild Text: Literacy Strategies for…
Grade: K-12
$39.99Grade: K-12
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This resource guides teachers in how to meet the changing needs of today's readers while still meeting today's rigorous standards, and provides teachers with the best practices for teaching reading to 21st century students.
Mathematical Discourse: Let the Kids Talk!
Grade: K-12
$31.99Grade: K-12
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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…
Grade: K-12
$45.99Grade: K-12
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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…
Grade: K-12
$29.99Grade: K-12
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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
$29.99Grade: 1-8
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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.
Building Academic Language through…
Grade: 1-8
$31.99Grade: 1-8
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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.
Dive into Close Reading: Strategies for Your…
Grade: 3-5
$45.99Grade: 3-5
Price: $45.99
Give grades 3-5 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.
Grade: 3-5
$39.99Grade: 3-5
Price: $39.99
Equip teachers with the strategies needed to teach persuasive writing. This essential classroom resource teaches grades 3-5 students how to evaluate arguments, form opinions, and support and present their ideas with logic, reason, and evidence.
Information Literacy: Separating Fact from…
Grade: 3-8
$31.99Grade: 3-8
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Help students achieve digital literacy and become 21st century thinkers in a world of information overload! This resource provides educators with the tools they need to help students actively analyze and assess information from multiple online sources.
Content Area Writing that Rocks (and Works!)
Grade: 3-12
$31.99Grade: 3-12
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Create an innovative classroom where students develop writing skills by learning strategies based on their interests in technology, social media, and other topics. Students apply these tools and strategies to build college and career readiness skills.
The Reading Intervention Toolkit
Grade: 4-8
$45.99Grade: 4-8
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This practical resource contains classroom-tested interventions for struggling readers provided in 5-, 10 to 15-, and 30 to 40-minute settings.
Grade: 6-8
$39.99Grade: 6-8
Price: $39.99
Equip teachers with the strategies needed to teach persuasive writing. This essential classroom resource teaches grades 6-8 students how to evaluate arguments, form opinions, and support and present their ideas with logic, reason, and evidence.
