Kathleen A. Carden

Mary Godley-Sugrue

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

Reading & Language Arts

Standards-Based Lessons That Guide Students Through the Writing Process, Teach Conventions, Explore Genres, and Help Second Graders Write Effective Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays

A complete, standards-based writing curriculum designed specifically for second graders. Through daily journal prompts and weekly writing lessons, second graders move from writing sentences to composing multiple paragraphs, learning how to organize, revise, and edit fiction and nonfiction effectively. The result is well-developed writing rich with details and voice. Includes management strategies, conferring tips, and much, much more.

Week-by-Week Lessons

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Robert J. Marzano

Debra J. Pickering

Tammy Heflebower

The Classroom Strategies Series

Student engagement happens as a result of a teacher's careful planning and execution of specific strategies. This self-study text provides in-depth understanding of how to generate high levels of student attention and engagement. Using the suggestions in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment where engagement is the norm, not the exception.

The Highly Engaged Classroom

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Diane Hood Nettles

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Designed to help you scaffold your students' reading and writing, Toolkit for Teachers of Literacy will be the resource you'll turn to for teaching and assessing literacy!

 

Diane Nettles presents a hands-on collection of assessment tools and teaching strategies that classroom teachers will love using! Broken down into five parts for quick reference and ease of use, Toolkit for Teachers of Literacy  takes the guesswork out of teaching literacy.

 

Take a look inside...

  ◊  Section I, Teaching Tools for Reading Instruction, a collection of strategies and tools for teaching, addresses early literacy assessments and ideas, strategies for learning story elements, nonfiction text organizers, comprehension strategies, and classroom management ideas.

  ◊  Section II, Rubrics for Analyzing Writing, features a set of writing rubrics correlated to benchmarks for grades one through eight and based on Vicki Spandel's instructional "six traits model" of teaching writing.

  ◊  Section III, Reading Assessments for the Classroom Teacher, is a complete set of classroom reading assessments such as forms, charts, and complete instructions for administering all of the assessments, including the results from a running record notation.

  ◊  Section IV, Using Standards-Based Literacy Portfolios, features literacy portfolios organized around the most important components of reading recommended by the National Reading Panel, and outlined in No Child Left Behind:  phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.

  ◊  Section V, Phonics Mini-Lessons: Understanding the Nature of Words, serves as a "refresher course in phonics" for pre-service and classroom teachers, with a set of 14 mini-lessons. Each lesson describes a phonetic element, using words pulled from children's books.

 

Blackline Masters of many of the figures and forms described in the book are available online at www.ablongman.com/nettles1e and can be downloaded for immediate use in the classroom.

 

Toolkit for Teachers of Literacy

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Guides and Fun Activities to Boost Reading Comprehension

Anticipation Guides

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Kay Davidson

Tressa Decker

Higher Level Questions and Activities for the Creative Classroom

Bloom's and Beyond

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Annie Brock

Heather Hundley

A Teacher's Month-By-Month Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve

Bring growth mindset strategies into the classroom with this easy-to-follow guide for teachers to empower learning through grit and resilience Created by teachers for teachers, this is the ultimate guide for unleashing students’ potential through creative lessons, empowering messages and innovative teaching. The Growth Mindset Coach provides all you need to foster a growth mindset classroom, including: A Month-by-Month Program Research-Based Activities Hands-On Lesson Plans Real-Life Educator Stories Constructive Feedback Sample Parent Letters Studies show that growth mindsets result in higher test scores, improved grades and more in-class involvement. When your students understand that their intelligence is not limited, they succeed like never before. With the tools in this book, you can motivate your students to believe in themselves and achieve anything.

The Growth Mindset Coach

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A Teacher's Guide to Promoting Student Success

An easy-to-implement collection of creative ideas and new strategies that inspire students with the power of growth mindsetStudents who harness the power of growth mindset can succeed beyond their wildest imagination. The key is having a growth-mindset teacher who provides support, guidance, and encouragement. Packed with research-based teaching methods, this approachable guide for applying the growth mindset offers:- Tips for overcoming challenges- Strategies for inspiring students- Ideas for constructive feedback- Techniques for improving communication- Examples of engaging lesson plansThe follow-up to the bestselling The Growth Mindset Coach, this expert handbook highlights several best practices for helping students realize their potential, explore new opportunities, and succeed socially and academically.

The Growth Mindset Playbook

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Charlotte F. Danielson

Leading Professional Conversations

This breakthrough work helpsáschool leaders understand the value and power of informal conversations with instructors to promote teacher learning, improve classroom teaching, and increase learner achievement. Administrators will find ′mental maps′ and practical tools to promote meaningful professional conversations about instructional practice. After the Classroom Walkthrough:Explains the critical function of informal professional conversations in supporting ongoing teacher learningExplores the interaction of power and leadership in schoolsOutlines the conversation skills needed by school leaders to conduct these pivotal conversationsProvides guidance for initiating and leading professional conversations

Talk about Teaching!

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Jennifer Williams

Computer Science

Using Edtech for Social Good

Today's students are ready to design, dream and MAKE the future. Teach Boldly: Using Edtech for Social Good is a guide for educators ready to activate positive change in teaching and learning through innovative practices, meaningful use of technology and global collaboration. The book offers a human-centered approach with design- and empathy-driven practices that address many aspects of teaching and learning. Topics covered include constructing agile classrooms, digital storytelling and communicating across lines of difference, and prioritizing feedback and active listening. This book invites readers to create a customized plan to leverage innovative practice, education technology and global networks to activate positive change in the classroom and the world; discusses learning space design through the lens of empathy and amplification of student voice; provides easy-to-implement ideas for transforming learning and classroom culture through space; showcases the power of narrative and bringing focus to the need for storytelling in education and the world; and offers direction for seeking out authentic feedback and steps for iterating on ideas with emphasis on preservation of voice and prioritization of creativity in expression of ideas. With inspiration from real-world peaceMAKERS in education, Teach Boldly invites readers to create ready-to-go action plans for themselves as educators, for classroom communities and for the global community.

Teach Boldly

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Interventions That Work

The Struggling Reader

Dave Burgess

Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life As an Educator

In this book you'll learn how to: tap into your passion as a teacher - even when you're less than excited about the subject; develop creative presentations that capture your students' interest; establish rapport and a sense of camaraderie in your classroom; transform your class into a life-changing experience for your students. --from back cover.

Teach Like a PIRATE

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Robert J. Hogan

Char Forsten

Math

Singapore's Best Problem-Solving Strategies

8-Step Model Drawing

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Carol Lyons

How to Use Brain-Based Research to Maximize Learning

Marie Clay, in her foreword, says that this important book will help raise the profile for what is needed to get all children off to a good start in education. And a good place to start is with Carol Lyons.

Lyons does a masterful job of introducing teachers to the concepts, categories, language, and arguments pertaining to the brain's control of what readers do. She offers a new way of thinking about learning, about how the mind develops, and about what teachers can do to reach struggling readers. She draws on examples from interactions with her son and her own teaching, from research, and from the work of ten expert teachers, who have successfully taught those children often considered the hardest to teach-children with learning disabilities, language delays, or attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder. In addition, she supplies numerous transcripts of teacher-student conversations and end-of-chapter tips to guide teachers to observe their students and plan instruction more effectively.

Lyons' lifework has been the cognitive development of children. For decades, she has worked side by side with them, observing and researching what exactly goes on as they read and write. Now she has given us a book that is both accessible and fascinating, that explores topics too often overlooked or avoided. She offers a breakthrough explanation of the role emotion and the brain play in learning to read. Most important, she provides specific advice, with examples, to illustrate how to enable students to read and write, whatever their needs or abilities.

Teaching Struggling Readers

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Michael F. Opitz

Michael P. Ford

Flexible and Innovative Strategies for Guided Reading

With Reaching Readers, they offer a second-generation model of guided readingone that urges teachers to expand their vision and presents alternative practices.

Reaching Readers

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Carolyn Coil

Electives

Differentiated Activities and Assessments Using the Common Core Standards

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Paul Solarz

Empowering Students to Become Collaborative Leaders

Teach kids peer collaboration, improvement-focused learning, responsibility, active learning, twenty-first century skills, and empowerment.

Learn Like a Pirate

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Ron Clark

Essential 55 Workbook

From the Disney Teacher of the Year and New York Times bestselling author comes the ideal updated companion to the revised edition of The Essential 55.

Ron Clark's The Essential 55 took the country by storm, selling over over one million copies. Now he provides a new edition of the companion workbook with fresh exercises for teachers and parents to transform any child into a successful student.

The Essential 55 Workbook is full of easy-to-do lessons to help you reinforce The Essential 55 rules that every child should know. With a series of self-tests, exercises, and questionnaires, The Essential 55 Workbook allows you to adapt Ron Clark's successful tools to your own situation. With determination, discipline, and regular rewards, the children you stick by will be the children you come to admire.

The Essential 55 Workbook

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Marcia L. Tate

20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

What could be more frustrating for teachers than teaching an important lesson and then having students unable to recall the content just 24 hours later? In this new edition of Marcia Tate's best-selling "Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites", her 20 field-tested, brain-compatible instructional strategies that maximize memory and minimize forgetting are supported by new classroom applications and research throughout. Each short chapter is devoted to one of the strategies and includes: the brain research and learning style theory undergirding the strategy, sample classroom activities utilizing the strategy, and reflection/action planning steps. As Tate's many workshop participants worldwide can attest, using these strategies will not only help students retain content and increase motivation but will also improve the classroom environment.

Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites

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Vicki Spandel

30 Revision and Editing Lessons

Grade appropriate lessons give students effective tools for strengthening revision and editings skills.

Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors for Grade 3

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Robert M. Wilson

Mary Anne Hall

Donald J. Leu

Charles K. Kinzer

An Interactive Tutorial

This practical self-study guide provides a strong foundation for phonemic awareness, phonics, and word analysis—and enables future and practicing teachers to update their knowledge, prepare for teacher certification, or study for competency tests. Learners are able to go through the text on their own and master the concepts and terminology of word analysis, and then demonstrate their knowledge by passing a short test on its contents. The book provides important information about a wide range of word analysis including phonic generalizations with high utility, morphemic and structural analysis, and using a dictionary. It also examines sound-letter relationships, the spelling patterns of language, and the language processing strategies useful to children. For teachers who are students of reading methods.

Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Word Analysis for Teachers

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Eric Jensen

Read the title again, and then consider: What is the point of doing your job any other way? After explaining the basics of research and theory in clear terms, this book offers precise techniques for putting those principles to work in class. The day after you read it, this book will make you more effective at commanding attention, motivating students, and helping them really remember what they learn. Produced by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).

Teaching with the Brain in Mind

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Andrew Nance

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Famous horror story writer R. U. Tremblin comes to the town of Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying--and deadly--night with him in a haunted house.

Daemon Hall

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Kate Morton

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah “An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York Post In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed. Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.

The Clockmaker's Daughter

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Cassandra Khaw

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
A Bram Stoker Award Nominee and World Fantasy Award Finalist!
An August Derleth Award Nominee!
An Indie Next and October LibraryReads Pick!
2022 RUSA Reading List: Horror Winner!
A Most Anticipated Read on Goodreads, Tor.com, Crime Reads, BookRiot, The Nerd Daily, and more.

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.

A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company.

It's the perfect venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back together to celebrate a wedding.

A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested.

But the house has secrets too. Lurking in the shadows is the ghost bride with a black smile and a hungry heart.

And she gets lonely down there in the dirt.

Effortlessly turning the classic haunted house story on its head, Nothing but Blackened Teeth is a sharp and devastating exploration of grief, the parasitic nature of relationships, and the consequences of our actions.

Nothing but Blackened Teeth

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Danielle Cronk

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