#paperback #education #literacy #learning #teaching #homeschool #reading 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

On Being Literate

#fiction #historicalfiction #hardcover #reesesbookclub #jojomoyes #literacy #extraordinarywomen 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE WITHERSPOON X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK “A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together.” —Reese Witherspoon From the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover, now a major motion picture on Netflix, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era America Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic--a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.

The Giver of Stars

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#teaching #homeschool #literacy #fountasandpinnell

Illinois

English

How Language and Literacy Come Together, K-2

Grades K-2

 

Children want to make their mark-on paper, on any surface, in life. But the difficulties of transferring words to paper can be daunting enough to drown out even the most enthusiastic voice. Enter interactive writing, a new instructional approach in which teachers and children collaborate to produce a written text. Just as Fountas and Pinnell did in their best-selling Guided Reading, the authors offer powerful first teaching designed to accelerate and support children's critical understanding of the writing process.

Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers. In a clear, step-by-step format, the authors show how teachers can use interactive writing to teach a range of foundational literacy skills by sharing the pen with young writers:

 * letter learning
 * phonological and orthographic awareness
 * learning the nature of words
 * building a writing vocabulary
 * learning concepts about print
 * organizing and composing narrative and expository text.

Important features include a rich array of examples of children's writing, down-to-earth practical advice, suggestions for using children's literature and art in the writing program, numerous photos of children's work, and suggestions for professional development. Additionally, there are thorough descriptions of how interactive writing can be used as a tool for inquiry across the curriculum-in content areas as well as in literature. With this kind of broad application, children can grow to see writing as a lifelong tool for learning-and see themselves as writers, right from the start.

The book is filled with practical information on how to get started with interactive writing, with explicit details from specific materials to fine teaching points.

Interactive Writing

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#paperback #literacy #childhoodeducation #teaching #education #primary #school #middleschool #literature 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Developing Literacy Through Literature, K-8

This bestselling text has helped countless numbers of educators to create effective reading programs that are fun and inspiring for both the student and the educator. New features include a chapter on contemporary literary theories for classroom practice, a section on storytelling, assessment advice and more.

The Child As Critic

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#paperback #paperback #teaching #education #reading #contentareas #literacy #writing #research #book-pairing this book is so cool! Tons of book pairs and research ideas and reproducible!! #walch-publishing

Cooperative writing, discussion and research activities 

Meeting of Minds

#paperback #nonfiction #donalynmiller #inspiring #education

Florida

Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer, " 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. She shares her teaching methods and 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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Louisiana

Reading & Language Arts

Making Centers Work

This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year. Each chapter includes: how to introduce each station;materials to include at each station;what to model;how to solve problems;how to differentiate;how to assess and keep students accountable;reflection questions for professional development. Materials in both English and Spanish are provided in the extensive resource section. Throughout the book the author has included photos of literacy workstations from a variety of classrooms in which she has worked to illustrate the methods discussed in the text.

Literacy Work Stations

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Inquiries into Meaning Making with New Technologies

This work examines critical aspects of literacy in the new information age and the complex issues surrounding the use of new technologies. The pieces build on specific examples from classrooms, Web use, and other experiences with new digital information and communication environments.

Literacy in the Information Age

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#culture #literacy #literature #bible #folklore #proverbs #idioms #philosophy # religion #finesrts #hustory #politics #geography #anthropology #psychology #sociology #physicalscience #mathematics #medicine #health #technology #dictionary


Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Indiana

What Every American Needs to Know

Defines the people, places, sayings, and ideas representing essential information for literate Americans

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

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#fiction #hardcover #botm #friendship #literacy #kentucky #prejudice #romance #jojomoyes #packhorse-librarians 

Kentucky

In Depression-era America, five extraordinary women embark on a remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. Based on a true story rooted in America's past, The Giver of Stars is a richly rewarding novel of women's friendship, of true love, and of what happens when people reach beyond their grasp.

#paperback #LibraryScience #EqualAccess #outreach #ALA #literacy

Innovative Models of Library Policy and Practice

The many assumptions about current library outreach services--that they're off-site, depend on special funding, and are administered by specific staff--no longer reflect the realities of providing equitable library services to the audiences who most need them.

From Outreach to Equity

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#paperback #idioms #language #literacy #fiction #playonwords #humor

A Little Pigeon Toad

Wisconsin

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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#paperback #educational #learning #differention #instruction #teaching #literacy #elementary

'Best Books for Building Literacy in the Elementary School' helps current and future teachers find interesting books for every student in their class and use children's books to help each student fully develop her or his literacy potential. It provides an annotated listing of more than 1000 books selected for students in grades one through six.

Best Books for Building Literacy for Elementary School Children

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A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production and Social Change

This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Drawing on his twenty years of experience working with inner-city youth at the acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City, Steven Goodman looks closely at both the problems and possibilities of this model of media education.

Teaching Youth Media

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#paperback #education #teaching #reading #literacy #writing #fieldsofreading 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Motives for Writing

Fields of Reading draws on the major divisions of the curriculum — arts and humanities, social sciences and public affairs, and sciences — to present well-crafted and high-quality writing from these fields. Chosen by six editors who are all distinguished teachers and writers, the selections progress from individual essays to paired texts to casebooks that contain multiple readings on an engaging topic. Students are thus exposed to important readings — and conversations — by key voices in contemporary intellectual life — and asked to engage in the kind of reading, writing, and cross-curricular thinking they encounter in college. An additional emphasis on rhetorical purpose (reflecting, reporting, explaining, and arguing), helps students understand how subject, intent, and audience influence the form and style of their own writing.

Fields of Reading

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Some light drink staining on inside and back cover

Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School

"Why should I read?" Can your students answer that question? Do they have trouble seeing the importance that reading may have in their lives? Are they lacking motivation, both in academic and recreational reading? Do you think you can effectively teach reading strategies if students don't understand the benefits of literacy?

Reading Reasons

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Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12

"Do I really have to teach reading?"



This is a question many teachers of adolescents ask, wondering how they can add a new element to an overloaded curriculum. The answer is yes; if teachers want their students to learn complex new concepts in different disciplines, they need to help develop their students' reading skills.



In Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12, author Cris Tovani takes on the challenge of helping students apply reading comprehension strategies in any subject. Tovani shows how teachers can expand on their content expertise to provide the instruction students need to understand specific technical and narrative texts. Inside the book you'll find:

 * Examples of how teachers can model their reading process for students
 * Ideas for supplementing and enhancing the use of required textbooks
 * Detailed descriptions of specific strategies taught in context
 * Stories from different high school classrooms to show how reading instruction varies according to content
 * Samples of student work, including both struggling readers and college-bound seniors
 * "Comprehension Constructors": guides designed to help students recognize and capture their thinking in writing while reading
 * Guidance on assessing students
 * Tips for balancing content and reading instruction



Tovani's humor, honesty, and willingness to share her own struggles as a teacher make this a unique take on content reading instruction that will be valuable to reading teachers as well as content specialists.

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?

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The Keystone of Reader's Workshop

Conferences are an invaluable way to get to know your students as readers. This simple guide begins by explaining what conferring is and what it's not, and then explores the essential components of the process: intimacy (the social context), rigor (the cognitive context), and inquiry (the analytical context). It then works through conferring's guiding principles--including goal setting, instruction points, listening, rapport, challenges, and teacher learning--and provides questions that will lead teachers through a reader's conference from start to finish.

Conferring

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Accessible and hands-on yet grounded in research, this book addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of integrating literacy instruction and the arts in grades K-8. Even teachers without any arts background will gain the skills they need to bring music, drama, visual arts, and dance into their classrooms. Provided are a wealth of specific resources and activities that other teachers have successfully used to build students' oral language, concepts of print, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing, while also promoting creativity and self-expression. Special features include reproducible worksheets and checklists for developing, evaluating, and implementing arts-related lesson plans.


Teaching Literacy Through the Arts

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#hardcover #antique #primer #geographical #ArtPrints #illustrated #workbook #literacy #composition 

Book One

Growth in English (1934)

This book is in good condition. It has been lightly used with minimal wear on the cover and pages. It is signed by the author for someone named Mary. 

Crucial Talk about Reading, Writing, and Other Teaching Dilemmas

Recommended by the Ontario Ministry of Education

 

Routman takes a hard look at many societal issues and at teachers who need to be clear about their goal and beliefs

Literacy at the Crossroads signed by author

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Minnesota

The Whole Story 

#paperback #literacy #writing #reading #writing-process #education #teaching 

6th edition

Blending a complete writing about literature, a literature anthology, and a handbook into one, this unique volume guides readers through the allied processes of critical reading and writing—illustrating the use of writing as a way of studying literature, and providing readers with all the tools necessary to analyze literature on their own. The book promotes interactive learning by integrating writing instruction with the study of literature. The volume outlines the prewriting, writing, and rewriting processes, writing about short fiction, writing about structure, imagery and symbolism, point of view, setting and atmosphere, theme, writing about poetry, writing about drama, the editing process and features extensive anthologies of short fiction, poetry and drama. For those looking for a guide for the processes of analytical reading and writing.

Margaret Meek

On Being Literate

Jojo Moyes

The Giver of Stars

Andrea McCarrier; Irene Fountas; Gay Su Pinnell

Interactive Writing

Glenna Sloan

The Child As Critic

Ann Bourman

Meeting of Minds

Donalyn Miller; Jeff Anderson (Foreword by)

The Book Whisperer

Debbie Diller

Literacy Work Stations

Bertram C. Bruce (Editor)

Literacy in the Information Age

E. D. Hirsch; Joseph F. Kett; James Trefil

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

Jojo Moyes

The Giver of Stars

American Library American Library Association

From Outreach to Equity

Fred Gwynne

A Little Pigeon Toad

Gail Boushey; Joan Moser

The CAFE Book

Thomas G. Gunning

Best Books for Building Literacy for Elementary School Children

Steven Goodman

Teaching Youth Media

Nancy R. Comley; David Hamilton; Carl H. Klaus; Robert Scholes; Nancy Sommers; Jason Tougaw

Fields of Reading

Kelly Gallagher

Reading Reasons

Cris Tovani

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?

Patrick A. Allen

Conferring

Nan L. McDonald; Douglas Fisher

Teaching Literacy Through the Arts

Mabel E. Simpson & Mary A. Adams

Growth in English (1934)

Regie Routman

Literacy at the Crossroads signed by author

Brian Cambourne

The Whole Story

Elizabeth McMahan; Susan Day; Robert Funk

Literature and the Writing Process