Pamela Byrne Schiller

Pat Phipps

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Reading & Language Arts

Over 1,200 Easy Activities to Support Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

Because there's more than one way to be smart! This innovative book for three-to six-year-olds offers a complete plan for every learner. Organized by theme, The Daily Curriculum includes over 1,200 activities and ideas to engage multiple intelligences. Complete with assessment tools and a comprehensive appendix, you'll find everything you need to captivate and challenge every child in your classroom.

The Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood

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Irene Fountas

Gay Su Pinnell

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

English

Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom

In 1996, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas presented Guided Reading, the most comprehensive guided reading resource ever published. Hailed for its practical, systematic approach, the book showed hundreds of thousands of teachers how to address the needs of the whole classroom as well as individual readers. Now, with the publication of Word Matters, Pinnell and Fountas offer K-3 teachers the same unparalleled support, this time focusing on phonics and spelling instruction.

Word Matterspresents essential information on designing and implementing a high-quality, systematic literacy program to help children learn about letters, sounds, and words. The central goal is to teach children to become "word solvers": readers who can take words apart while reading for meaning, and writers who can construct words while writing to communicate. Where similar books are narrow in focus, Word Matterspresents the theoretical underpinnings and practical wherewithal of word study in three contexts:

 * word study that includes systematically planned and applied experiences focusing on the elements of letters and words
 * writing, including how children use phoneme-grapheme relationships, word patterns, and principles to develop spelling ability
 * reading, including teaching children how to solve words with the use of phonics and visual-analysis skills as they read for meaning.

Each topic is supported with a variety of practical tools: reproducible sheets for a word study system and for writing workshop; lists of spelling minilessons; and extensive word lists, including frequently used words, antonyms, synonyms, and more. Armed with these tools-and the tried-and-true wisdom of Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas-teachers can help students develop not just the "essential skills," but also a joyful appreciation of their own literacy.

Word Matters

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Gail Boushey

Joan Moser

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction

Instructs educators on using the CAFE system to develop student's reading skills and promote comprehension, including information on tracking growth and how to talk to students.

The CAFE Book

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Angela S. Powell

Classroom Management That Makes Teaching More Effective, Efficient, and Enjoyable

Using classroom photographs, forms, and dialogue examples, "The Cornerstone" shows how to design instructional routines that facilitate learning.

The Cornerstone

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Donalyn Miller

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

From the Publisher: Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they pick out themselves. Her love of books and teaching is both infectious and inspiring. The book includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.

The Book Whisperer

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Harvey Karp

Paula Spencer

A stage by stage approach to guide you through toddlerhood .

The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One- to Four-Year-Old

Toddlers can drive you bonkers...so adorable and fun one minute...so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable as it sounds, there is a way to turn the daily stream of "nos" and "don'ts" into "yeses" and hugs...if you know how to speak your toddler's language. In one of the most useful advances in parenting techniques of the past twenty-five years, Dr. Karp reveals that toddlers, with their immature brains and stormy outbursts, should be thought of not as pint-size people but as pintsize...cavemen. Having noticed that the usual techniques often failed to calm crying toddlers, Dr. Karp discovered that the key to effective communication was to speak to them in their own primitive language. When he did, suddenly he was able to soothe their outbursts almost every time! This amazing success led him to the realization that children between the ages of one and four go through four stages of "evolutionary" growth, each linked to the development of the brain, and each echoing a step in prehistoric humankind's journey to civilization: - The "Charming Chimp-Child" (12 to 18 months): Wobbles around on two legs, grabs everything in reach, plays a nonstop game of "monkey see monkey do."- The "Knee-High Neanderthal" (18 to 24 months): Strong-willed, fun-loving, messy, with a vocabulary of about thirty words, the favorites being "no" and "mine."- The "Clever Caveman" (24 to 36 months): Just beginning to learn how to share, make friends, take turns, and use the potty.- The "Versatile Villager" (36 to 48 months): Loves to tell stories, sing songs and dance, while trying hard to behave.To speak to these children, Dr. Karp has developed two extraordinarily effective techniques: 1) The "fastfood" rule -- restating what your child has said to make sure you got it right; 2) The four-step rule -- using gesture, repetition, simplicity, and tone to help your irate Stone-Ager be happy again.Once you've mastered "toddler

The Happiest Toddler on the Block

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