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Learning Under the Influence of Language and Learning
The read-aloud of yesteryear was often limited in its ambition and application: a well-intended routine for getting students’ attention or settling them down. But today’s read-aloud is a vibrant, deliberate part of good teaching, an...
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Lesson Study Step by Step: How Teacher Learning Communities Improve Instruction
“At a time when so many educational policies fail to recognize and nurture the capacity of teachers to improve instruction, we feel enormously grateful for the learning community lesson study has brought to us.” —Catherine Lewis and...
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Lessons and Activities for Building Powerful Numeracy
Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle and High School Students brought the world of research on numeracy at the elementary level to the secondary level, helping teachers build numeracy in their students and showing how that work supports students in...
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Lessons from a Writer's Life
There is much in this book to inspire any writer to seek more in his or her own writing: to pay attention to sounds, smells, people, and dialogue. Because Judith’s voice is strong, offering such a real and rich invitation, my students will listen...
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Lessons in Comprehension
Plumbing his file drawers for 64 of the most effective comprehension minilessons from his distinguished teaching career, Serafini has created a teaching treasure trove that contains nearly a year’s worth of comprehension instruction plus an...
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Lessons That Change Writers
In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by...