Professional Resources

  •  Joyful Writing in PreK: Create. Imagine. Learn.

    Joyful Writing in PreK: Create. Imagine. Learn.

    Joyful Writing in PreK contains 125 lessons (100 writing minilessons + 25 interactive writing lessons) that spark creativity, imagination, and learning. Writing minilessons are brief, focused, explicit lessons that help children understand and...

  • Assessing Early Literacy with Richard Gentry (with DVD)

    Assessing Early Literacy with Richard Gentry (with DVD)

    This is a three-part, DVD-based kit that shows you how one simple diagnostic test can reveal any student’s progress through the phases of early reading and writing. You’ll watch firsthand as Gentry meets children between ages three and seven...

  • I Am Reading

    I Am Reading

    Nurturing Young Children's Meaning Making and Joyful Engagement with Any Book It’s vital that we support young children’s reading in ways that nurture healthy reading identities, that foster an attraction to books and a love of reading, and...

  • In Pictures and In Words, PreK-4

    In Pictures and In Words, PreK-4

    Make abstract qualities like tone, detail, and organization easily visible for young writers with Katie Wood Ray’s In Pictures and in Words. “If teachers show children how an illustrator’s decisions about pictures are a lot like a...

  • Letter Lessons and First Words

    Letter Lessons and First Words

    If you’re not sure how phonics fits within your daily instruction, or crave a more effective process for teaching phonics, Heidi Anne Mesmer is here to help. In Letter Lessons and First Words, Heidi Anne provides a research-based vision of...

  • Literacy Beginnings, 3rd Edition

    Literacy Beginnings, 3rd Edition

    With Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook, Third Edition, tap into young children’s curiosity to introduce them to the world of literacy in joyful, engaging ways. “The knowledge that forms the foundation for reading and...