Sharing high-quality storybooks and nonfiction books not only is enjoyable for young children and teachers-it is also a powerful way to build crucial literacy skills. This engaging guide provides effective strategies for selecting books and using read-alouds to develop children's oral language, vocabulary, concepts of print, alphabet knowledge, ......
Building foundational whole-number knowledge can help put K-5 students on the path to academic success and career readiness. Filling a gap for school practitioners, this book presents step-by-step guidelines for designing and implementing classwide, small-group, and individual interventions for mathematics difficulties. Effective procedures for ......
For use with struggling readers in Grades 6-8, this book arms literacy teachers with the why and how of effective, evidence-based instruction. Includes more than 20 step-by-step sample lessons for strengthening fluency, comprehension, word recognition, and vocabulary. Reading problems don't disappear when students enter middle school-recent ......
Supporting Text-Based Comprehension and Communication Skills
This teacher-friendly guide is packed with motivating lessons designed to improve the content learning and literacy skills of English language learners (ELLs) in K-8. Offering research-supported strategies that teachers can implement immediately, the book explains how to use content-area texts to support ELLs' growth in five crucial areas: ......
Helps early childhood professionals understand critical, key early literacy issues in context by presenting classroom practices and then making recommendations for improving early childhood literacy outcomes based on what research shows is best practice.
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Activities for 11-19 year olds
Essential guidance for adults teaching groups of teens about relationships & sex, this updated resource offers interactive activities/lesson plans that aid discussion around online pornography & its impact on healthy relationships & body image. Plus downloadable theory on RSE in faith schools/special schools and template forms.
Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communitie
Ready-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green agenda? How can we refocus education to emphasize integrative thinking and inspire hope? What ......
This established text and teacher resource is now in a revised and updated third edition, with a broader focus on whole-class instruction as well as small-group and individualized intervention.
This established text and teacher resource is now in a revised and updated third edition, with a broader focus on whole-class instruction as well as small-group and individualized intervention. The evidence-based Interactive Strategies Approach (ISA) provides a clear framework for supporting literacy development in grades K-3, particularly for ......
