Applying Differentiation Strategies: Teacher's Handbook for Grades 3-5

Give all learners in grades 3-5 the opportunity for successful learning! This resource will teach you how to differentiate your lessons through content, process, and product in order to effectively accommodate all learning levels and styles of learning.

You Can't Just Say It Louder! Differentiated Strat. for Comprehending Nonfiction

This dynamic book provides the foundation you need to confidently and successfully teach comprehension to a diverse population of students.

Strategies for Building Fluency ebook

This easy-to-use guide features practical, research-based strategies and supported leveled readings. The strategies are organized by grouping situations including whole group, small group, partner, independent, and performance.

Strategies for Teaching Mathematics ebook

Enhance mathematics instruction and build students' understanding of mathematical concepts with this exceptional resource notebook. Choose from a wide range of easy-to-implement strategies that enhance mathematical content.

Document-Based Assessment Activities ebook

Take students beyond textbook history to explore various people and events from ancient Egypt through the 20th Century using primary sources.

A Baker's Dozen of Lessons Learned from the Teaching Trenches ebook

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!"

Vocabulary Instruction for Academic Success ebook

Based on current research, this user-friendly resource provides vocabulary development strategies that are grouped together according to purpose.

Comprehension That Works: Taking Students Beyond Ordinary Understanding to Deep Comprehension ebook

Energize your reading instruction through innovative, engaging reading strategies that will empower you to improve your student's comprehension. These classroom-tested strategies integrate current research with real-life observation of students in action.

Greek and Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary ebook

Enhance instruction with an in-depth understanding of how to incorporate word roots into vocabulary lessons in all content areas.

The New Teacher's Guide to Success ebook

Be well prepared to achieve success in your first years of teaching! Presented in an easy-to-use format, you'll find answers to questions about classroom management, homework, communicating with parents, and more.

Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies ebook

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.

Esperanza renace: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Help Spanish-speaking students boost their reading comprehension skills! This book provides engaging lesson plans and activities to guide teachers in the instruction of Esperanza renace, the Spanish language version of the novel Esperanza Rising.

La isla de los delfines azules: An Instructional Guide for Literature

Help Spanish-speaking students build their reading comprehension skills! This teacher resource offers exciting lesson plans and activities for La isla de los delfines azules, the Spanish language version of the novel Island of the Blue Dolphins.

180 Days™: Writing for Fifth Grade (Spanish)

Help Spanish-speaking fifth graders improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Engage students while guiding them through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.

180 Days™: Reading for Fifth Grade (Spanish)

Encourage Spanish-speaking fifth graders to improve their reading skills with meaningful daily practice activities. Includes engaging Spanish passages that allow students to practice reading comprehension, word study, and written responses.

Gracias a Winn-Dixie (Because of Winn-Dixie): An Instructional Guide for Literature

Learn how Winn-Dixie encourages Opal to make friends by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons in this Spanish instructional guide for literature, created to support this award-winning children's favorite.

The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students-and You

The Empathetic Classroom goes beyond typical books on teacher well-being, focusing on holistic mindsets and strategies that support mental health in K-12 teachers and their students alike. Written by a teacher-turned-therapist, this approachable book uniquely offers a mental health perspective on classroom teaching. Maria Munro-Schuster shares tools for focusing on mental health in everyday practiceTeachers will benefit from sound advice on maintaining boundaries, confronting intrusive thoughts, responding to trauma, incorporating play into classrooms, and many other methods of remaining connected to themselves and their students. The conversational tone and relatable stories make this an easy, entertaining read.

Raising Awe-Seekers: How the Science of Wonder Helps Our Kids Thrive

What if helping children boost their mental and emotional well-being, strengthen their social ties, and support their curiosity and internal motivation were as simple as rediscovering awe? Through research, interviews, and personal stories, Deborah Farmer Kris explores how awe and wonder can and should be a part of every childhood, and how becoming awe-seekers can change readers lives and their parenting in profound and concrete ways. In this book structured around seven of the most common sources of awe identified by Dacher Keltner and other awe researchers, Farmer Kris breaks down the science of awe, connecting the research to what we know about how kids learn and grow and anchoring it with four of her personal parenting tenets that dovetail with awe-seeking.

Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning, Second Edition

There's Research for That: Your K-5 Literacy Instruction Questions Answered

Catch-Up Math: Grade K-6: Complete 7-Book Set

The Ultimate Math Catch-Up Set. This 7-Book Set includes one book per grade beginning with Kindergarten.Families appreciate that these full-color books offers simple step-by-step explanations of each topic and includes access to instructional videos created by math experts. The examples and practice activities help students master grade-level math concepts such as division, fractions, and angles. In addition, the review pages cement foundational mathematics skills, ensuring that students are ready to tackle more difficult math concepts going forward.

Academic Intervention Success: A Whole-Child Approach to K-5 Achievement

Drawing on decades of academic and action research, the authors, who work as an elementary intervention specialist and education professor, provide a comprehensive framework for developing effective intervention programs. Incorporating real-world examples and stories from the field, this resource offers school leaders and educators insightful guidance for creating a site-based intervention program to foster academic and emotional success in their students.

Short Texts, Big Impact: 35 Strategies for Strengthening Reading and Writing Skills

Unlock the potential of short texts in your classroom with this comprehensive guide for K-12 teachers. This book delves into the power of short texts to significantly enhance student reading and writing outcomes. You'll explore core reading strategies such as annotation, quick writing, and analyzing the writer's craft, and core writing strategies, including micro writing, mentor texts, and sticky note revision. Additionally, discover creative approaches such as the three-word summary, song rewriting, and storyboarding for prewriting. The book offers classroom tested step-by-step guidance for all of the strategies and is packed with models of the strategies in use, sample texts, examples of anchor charts, and more. Whether you want to improve students' engagement, refine their writing process, or assess their progress, this resource has practical strategies to elevate your teaching and boost student success in reading and writing.