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Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers)
For too long, sentence instruction has been heavy on correctness and terminology (as in “mind your grammar”) and light on play and experimentation. Or it has been abandoned altogether. In this lively book, Marty Brandt sets out to change all...
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Grammar for College Writing: A Sentence-Composing Approach
Across America, in thousands of classrooms, from elementary school to high school, the time-tested sentence-composing approach has given students tools to become better writers. Now the Killgallons present a much anticipated sentence-composing grammar...
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It Makes Sense: Using Number Paths and Number Lines to Build Number Sense
Strengthen teaching and deepen learning of number skills and concepts From “Mystery Number” to “Hot Lava Bridge,” the forty classroom-tested lessons in It Makes Sense: Using Number Paths and Number Lines to Build Number...
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Teaching Writing in Small Groups
Find out how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students. Jennifer Serravallo’s Teaching Writing in Small Groups details essential practices for optimizing groups that help you: value...
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...And with a Light Touch : Learning About Reading, Writing, and Teaching with First Graders
With its first edition, this book was immediately praised for its authentic portrayal of classroom life and learning. "It's my bible for teaching young children" and "It reads like a novel," said veteran and pre-service teachers alike...
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100-Word Stories: A Short Form for Expansive Stories
What can 100-word stories help your students understand about writing? The short answer is, everything! This flash-fiction form has become a popular structure for efficiently teaching a wide variety of literary devices, terms, and processes in a targeted...
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180 DAYS: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents
“Teaching is art—creation—and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who questions it, and who revises it to meet the needs of each year’s students.” —Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle Two...
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4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency
Essay. Poetry. Book Clubs. Digital Composition. Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher extend their work in 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by taking a deep dive into four essential studies. Their aim is to move beyond...
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5 Questions for Any Text
Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation Now more than ever, students need the skills to determine whether the texts they encounter are trustworthy. 5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation provides a simple framework...
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50 Strategies Series
Find new ideas and inspiration with the 50 Strategies series! These popular books inspire teachers with short, practical classroom strategies that include differentiation ideas for different grade bands in K-12. Written by experts, each book shares...
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A Community of Writers
Building on the experience and expertise of many teachers they've worked with as well as the growing literature on composing, classroom dynamics, and whole language, Zemelman and Daniels offer detailed guidance for all aspects of teaching and using...
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A Mindset for Learning: Teaching the Traits of Joyful, Independent Growth
By Kristine Mraz, Christine Hertz “This book is a gem: vivid, fun and thoughtful. It’s like sitting next to a skillful, experienced, focused teacher in a real classroom. Kristi and Christine draw on their years of...