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Resources that provide real solutions for teachers in today's classrooms.
Our research- and standards-based professional development and classroom resources equip teachers with the tools and strategies that they need to be successful in the classroom. Designed to save valuable time, they include best classroom practices, evidence-based strategies that support rigorous educational standards, and the latest research by experts in their respective fields. Created for grades K-12 and across all content areas, our selection of resources offers solutions for every teacher and every classroom.
Grade: PK-1
$21.99Teaching the Alphabet
Grade: PK-1
- Item Number: 50626
- ISBN: 9781425806262
Price: $21.99
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
$24.99Managing an Early Childhood Classroom
Grade: PK-2
- Item Number: 50635
- ISBN: 9781425806354
Price: $24.99
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.
Understanding Learning Styles: Making A…
Grade: PK-12
$29.99Understanding Learning Styles: Making A Difference for Diverse Learners
Grade: PK-12
- Item Number: 50046
- ISBN: 9781425800468
Price: $29.99
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
$29.99You Can't Just Say It Louder! Differentiated Strat. for Comprehending Nonfiction
Grade: PK-12
- Item Number: 50519
- ISBN: 9781425805197
Price: $29.99
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
$45.99Dive into Close Reading: Strategies for Your K-2 Classroom
Grade: K-2
- Item Number: 51540
- ISBN: 9781425815400
Price: $45.99
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
$39.99My View, My Voice, Levels K-2
Grade: K-2
- Item Number: 51697
- ISBN: 9781425816971
Price: $39.99
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.
Get the Picture: Visual Literacy in…
Grade: K-3
$45.99Get the Picture: Visual Literacy in Content-Area Instruction
Grade: K-3
- Item Number: 51770
- ISBN: 9781493880805
Price: $45.99
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.
Grade: K-8
$45.99Teaching with Text Sets
Grade: K-8
- Item Number: 50688
- ISBN: 9781425806880
Price: $45.99
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
$45.99Just the Facts: Close Reading and Comprehension of Informational Text
Grade: K-8
- Item Number: 51316
- ISBN: 9781425813161
Price: $45.99
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
$45.99Effective Math Instruction
Grade: K-8
- Item Number: 51508
- ISBN: 9781425815080
Price: $45.99
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
$45.99Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy
Grade: K-8
- Item Number: 51519
- ISBN: 9781425815196
Price: $45.99
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
$29.99Vocabulary Instruction for Academic Success
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 50266
- ISBN: 9781425802660
Price: $29.99
Based on current research, this user-friendly resource provides vocabulary development strategies that are grouped together according to purpose.
Professional Learning Communities: Using…
Grade: K-12
$29.99Professional Learning Communities: Using Data in Decision Making
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 50518
- ISBN: 9781425805180
Price: $29.99
This practical resource demonstrates how to use data in decision making to improve student learning by promoting a school-wide learning community.
The 5Es of Inquiry-Based Science
Grade: K-12
$29.99The 5Es of Inquiry-Based Science
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 50689
- ISBN: 9781425806897
Price: $29.99
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
$29.99Common Sense Assessment in the Classroom
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 50690
- ISBN: 9781425806903
Price: $29.99
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
$24.99Bringing Joy Back into the Classroom
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 50756
- ISBN: 9781425807566
Price: $24.99
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
$24.99What's Your Math Problem!?! Getting to the Heart of Teaching Problem Solving
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 50788
- ISBN: 9781425807887
Price: $24.99
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
$29.99Science for English Language Learners
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 50859
- ISBN: 9781425808594
Price: $29.99
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.
Active Learning Across the Content Areas
Grade: K-12
$31.99Active Learning Across the Content Areas
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51050
- ISBN: 9781425810504
Price: $31.99
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
$24.99Using Technology to Improve Reading and Learning
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51314
- ISBN: 9781425813147
Price: $24.99
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
$29.99Orchestrating School Change: Transforming Your Leadership
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51315
- ISBN: 9781425813154
Price: $29.99
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
$34.99Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 8238
- ISBN: 9781425803674
Price: $34.99
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
$39.99The Synergy of Inquiry
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51212
- ISBN: 9781425812126
Price: $39.99
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
$39.99Teaching to Complexity
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51460
- ISBN: 9781425814601
Price: $39.99
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
$45.99TDQs: Strategies for Building Text-Dependent Questions
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51449
- ISBN: 9781425814496
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.
Writing Is Magic, Or Is It? Using Mentor Texts to…
Grade: K-12
$39.99Writing Is Magic, Or Is It? Using Mentor Texts to Develop the Writer's Craft
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51482
- ISBN: 9781425814823
Price: $39.99
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
$29.99Reading, Writing, and Rhythm: Engaging Content-Area Literacy Strategies
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 50999
- ISBN: 9781425809997
Price: $29.99
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
$45.99Analyzing and Writing with Primary Sources
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51478
- ISBN: 9781425814786
Price: $45.99
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
$45.99Connect to Text: Strategies for Close Reading and Writing
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51505
- ISBN: 9781425815059
Price: $45.99
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
$45.99Strategies for Writing from Sources
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51546
- ISBN: 9781425815462
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.
Grade: K-12
$31.99The Reading Makeover
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51476
- ISBN: 9781425814762
Price: $31.99
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
$45.99Strategies for Implementing Writer's Workshop
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51517
- ISBN: 9781425815172
Price: $45.99
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.
Mathematical Discourse: Let the Kids Talk!
Grade: K-12
$31.99Mathematical Discourse: Let the Kids Talk!
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 51768
- ISBN: 9781425817688
Price: $31.99
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
$45.99Clothesline Math: The Master Number Sense Maker
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 100444
- ISBN: 9781493885145
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.
The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages…
Grade: K-12
$29.99The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 100751
- ISBN: 9781493888429
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.
Integrated English Language Development
Grade: K-12
$31.99Integrated English Language Development
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 100742
- ISBN: 9781493888313
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…
Grade: K-12
$29.99Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments
Grade: K-12
- Item Number: 100743
- ISBN: 9781493888320
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.
Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies
Grade: 1-8
$29.99Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies
Grade: 1-8
- Item Number: 10404
- ISBN: 9781425804367
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.
Building Academic Language through…
Grade: 1-8
$31.99Building Academic Language through Content-Area Text: Strategies to Support ELLs
Grade: 1-8
- Item Number: 50631
- ISBN: 9781425806316
Price: $31.99
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
$45.99Dive into Close Reading: Strategies for Your 3-5 Classroom
Grade: 3-5
- Item Number: 51557
- ISBN: 9781425815578
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
$39.99My View, My Voice, Levels 3-5
Grade: 3-5
- Item Number: 51698
- ISBN: 9781425816988
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
$31.99Information Literacy: Separating Fact from Fiction
Grade: 3-8
- Item Number: 51756
- ISBN: 9781425817565
Price: $31.99
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
$31.99Content Area Writing that Rocks (and Works!)
Grade: 3-12
- Item Number: 51650
- ISBN: 9781425816506
Price: $31.99
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
$45.99The Reading Intervention Toolkit
Grade: 4-8
- Item Number: 51513
- ISBN: 9781425815134
Price: $45.99
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
$39.99My View, My Voice, Levels 6-8
Grade: 6-8
- Item Number: 51699
- ISBN: 9781425816995
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.
