This comprehensive overview of the challenging issues around boys and reading includes strategies and practical solutions for helping struggling readers. The role of gender in reading success is a complex one.
In freewriting, we write continuously: we begin with a prompt and keep our... Læs mere
A powerful technique for encouraging students to show action that peaks and resolves, storyboards free young writers to focus on language and build skills essential to highly visual media, where words, few but apt, must resonate.
Getting Dads On Board offers teachers effective techniques for attracting, recruiting, and keeping fathers involved... Læs mere
Whether or not to teach formal grammar in the classroom is a hot topic. Teachers need help in making sense of the issues.
In I’ve Got Something to Say, teachers will learn how to inspire students to buy into their own learning by giving them a voice in determining, organizing, structuring, and responding to what is happening in the classroom.
This timely book will
This simple book explores the elements and mechanics of good writing, including punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. It shows... Læs mere
All text comes with layers of meaning influenced by the background knowledge and attitudes of readers. This valuable resource examines the power of language and persuasion helps students critically examine and negotiate the underlying meaning in all that they read and see.
Journey to Literacy argues that teachers need to engage children in their own learning and give them opportunities to pursue their own interests and investigations.
A practical and timely revision, Learning in Safe Schools offers the tools teachers need for building inclusive schools, from establishing a schoolwide code of conduct to creating, enforcing, and supporting a behavior plan.