Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Teaching Writing in the Junior and Senior High School

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 writing-from workshop methods to prewriting and revising to issues of grammar and evaluation.

A Community of Writers

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English

Research-Based Strategies for Developing Critical Readers and Thoughtful Writers in Middle School

Want to help students achieve greater depth of reading, writing, and understanding? This book shows teachers how to facilitate discussions where students share rich, defensible interpretations of literature and solid, reasoned, understandings of any concepts under study. Based on the authors’ extensive research in middle schools, it describes why discussion-based instruction is crucial to achievement, and then shows you how to introduce and sustain discussions. The authors clearly define the teacher’s role and provide lots of successful strategies such as provocative statements and journal jots. Trouble-shooting sections answer common questions teachers have, such as how to correct a wrong interpretation and how to teach students to build on each other’s comments.

Building Literacy Through Classroom Discussion

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades

Describes the philosophy of the Daily 5 teaching structure and includes a collection of literacy tasks for students to complete daily.

The Daily Five

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

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.

Literature and the Writing Process

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

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.

The Giver of Stars

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Iowa

Creative Booktalking for Adults

This is the first book to focus solely on booktalking to adults. Here is an instruction manual and a material sourcebook in one; providing the reader with both step-by-step instructions on how to write a booktalk and 88 samples to use when creating a booktalk program for an adult audience.

Something to Talk About

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New Mexico

Reading & Language Arts

30 Instant Centers with Reproducible Templates and Activities That Help Kids Practice Important Literacy Skills-Independently!

Enrich center time with easy-to-make-and-store kits! These 30 skill-building games and activities help kids practice working with beginning and ending sounds, consonants, long and short vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Each box can be assembled with readily available materials and includes reproducible labels, easy-to-read student directions, and reproducible game boards, learning mats, and worksheets. Meets Common Core State Standards. For use with Grades K-2.

Shoe Box Learning Centers: Phonics

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Notice and Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies

Visit www.heinemann.com/ReadingNonfiction [http://www.heinemann.com/readingnonfiction/]for special previews, videos, and more.

Also available: Reading Nonfiction Student Bookmarks [http://www.heinemann.com/products/E08021.aspx]and Notice & Note/Reading Nonfiction Signpost Student Bookmarks [http://www.heinemann.com/products/E08020.aspx]

"When students recognize that nonfiction ought to challenge us, ought to slow us down and make us think, then they're more likely to become close readers." That means we need to help them question texts, authors, and, ultimately, their own thinking. No matter the content area, with Reading Nonfiction's classroom-tested suggestions, you'll lead kids toward skillful and responsible disciplinary literacy.

Picking up where their smash hit Notice & Noteleft off, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst write: "Fiction invites us into the writer's imagined world; nonfiction intrudes into ours and purports to tell us something about it." This crucial difference increases the responsibility of the nonfiction reader, so Kylene and Bob have developed interlocking scaffolds that every student can use to go beyond a superficial reading:

 * 3 essential questions that set students up for closer, more attentive readings of nonfiction texts
 * 5 Notice & Notenonfiction signposts that cue kids to apply the skills and processes that sophisticated readers use instinctively
 * 7 proven strategies readers can use to clear up confusions when the text gets tough.

We all know the value of helping students define nonfiction and understand its text structures. Reading Nonfictiongoes the next crucial step-helping kids challenge the claims of nonfiction authors, be challenged by them, and skillfully and rigorously make up their mind about purported truths.

Reading Nonfiction

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Louisiana

Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri--the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963. This complete, bilingual collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world--passionately sensuous, and exploding with all the erotic energy of a new love.

The Captain's Verses

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Rethinking Literacy Programs in America's Elementary Schools

Responding to the growing consensus among researchers and educators that prevention of learning problems makes more sense than remediation, this book presents essays that suggest ways to improve literacy instruction for all children, particularly those who are at risk. Essays in the book discuss practical matters such as funding, curriculum, assessment, and present numerous case studies of effective programs. After an introduction ("Literacy Lessons in the Elementary Schools: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" by Richard L. Allington), chapters in the book are: (1) "Redefining and Reforming Instructional Support Programs for At-Risk Students" (Sean A. Walmsley and Richard L. Allington); (2) "Flunking: Throwing Good Money after Bad" (Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen); (3)"Estimating Cost-Effectiveness and Educational Outcomes: Retention, Remediation, Special Education, and Early Intervention" (Philip C. Dyer and Ronald Binkney); (4) "Portfolios in the Classroom: What Happens When Teachers and Students Negotiate Assessment?" (Laura P. Stowell and Robert J. Tierney); (5) "Literacy Partnerships for Change with 'At-Risk' Kindergartners" (Lesley Mandel Morrow and Ellen M. O'Connor); (6) "Reducing Retention and Learning Disability Placement through Reading Recovery: An Educationally Sound, Cost-Effective Choice" (Carol A. Lyons and Joetta Beaver); (7) "Eliminating Ability Grouping and Reducing Failure in the Primary Grades" (Dorothy P. Hall and others); (8) "First Grade Teachers Provide Early Reading Intervention in the Classroom" (Barbara Taylor and others); (9) "Scoring Well on Tests or Becoming Genuinely Literate: Rethinking Remediation in a Small Rural School" (Trudy P. Walp and Sean A. Walmsley); (10) "Improving Early Literacy: Vermont Stories of Educational Change from the Bottom Up and the Top Down" (Susan Carey Biggam and others); (11) "Change in Urban Schools with High Concentrations of Low-Income Children: Chapter I Schoolwide Projects" (Linda F. Winfield); and (12) "The Implementation of the Accelerated School Model in an Urban Elementary School" (Stephanie L. Knight and Jane A. Stallings). An afterword ("No Quick Fix: Where Do We Go from Here?" by Richard L. Allington and Sean A. Walmsley) concludes the book. (RS)

No Quick Fix

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Reading and writing across content areas is emphasized in the standards and on high-stakes tests at the state and national level. As educators seek to incorporate content-area literacy into their teaching, they confront a maze of theories, instructional strategies, and acronyms like REAP and RAFT. Teachers who do work their way through the myriad content reading and writing strategies are discovering not all activities are appropriate for content instruction: only those with a strong research base meet the high standards expected in classrooms today.Janet Allen developed the ideal support for teachers who want to improve their reading instruction across the curriculum. Tools for Teaching Content Literacy is a compact tabbed flipchart designed as a ready reference for content reading and writing instruction.

Tools for Teaching Content Literacy

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Virginia

Reading Without Nonsense remains a groundbreaking, humanistic antidote to the managed ""systems"" approach to reading instruction. In his extensively revised fourth edition, Frank Smith brings teachers and teacher educators up to date on how reading should not be taught. It is a necessary reminder that reading and learning to read are natural activities. There is a massive assault on the independence of teachers of reading, mandated under the No Child Left Behind legislation, which regards reading as an unnatural act requiring contrived systematic instruction. Now more important than ever, ""Reading Without Nonsense, Fourth Edition"" provides the evidence and arguments that teachers need to resist this mechanistic view. As Frank Smith emphasizes, the act of reading has never changed despite all the changes in materials, procedures, and methodology proposed by people with an interest in how reading is taught. ""Reading Without Nonsense"" remains one of the most authoritative, influential, informative, and accessible texts on reading and learning to read. This bestseller is popular with classroom teachers and university professors as well as administrators, parents, and everyone concerned with literacy and education.

Reading Without Nonsense

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

What Every American Needs to Know

A national bestseller, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy has been widely acclaimed for identifying and defining the core body of knowledge that no literate American should be without. Now in this newly revised and updated edition, the authors provide a comprehensive look at cultural literacy for the nineties. New entries reflect suggestions from hundreds of readers. The dictionary takes into account the growing consensus over the specifics of multiculturalism, the political and geographic changes in the world, and the new ideas and terms that flow constantly from scientific research and technological development. Twenty-three sections, each alphabetically arranged, cover every major area of knowledge. Within each section, hundreds of individual entries identify ideas, events, and individuals, explaining their significance in our culture and placing them in context. More than 250 maps, charts, and illustrations provide information that cannot be conveyed by words alone. A complete index enables quick reference to any topic. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy challenges us to find out more about what we know and helps us make sense of what we read, hear, and learn. It is a "must have" book for every home.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

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Lessons in Children's Literature and Literacies

This text covers the history of children's books, themes in children's books, genres, conventions of children's books, their basic elements, the creative process, and how to teach using children's books. A strong emphasis is placed on multiculturalism and practical experiences throughout.

Words and Pictures

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California

No Spotlight Literacy 

Some writing, underlining, and highlighting (see pictures). #educational #pedegogy #teachingmaterials #highschoolenglish #collegeenglish #humanities #english #literacy  #paperback 

Missouri

Transforming Practice in the English Classroom

An Unquiet Pedagogyargues for a new approach to teaching English in the high school and college classroom, one that reconceives the relationship of literacy and the learner. The title is taken from an essay by Paulo Freire in his book with Donaldo Macedo entitled Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. Like Freire, the authors believe that pedagogy must be critical -- that it must examine the assumptions that teachers and students bring to any educational enterprise, that it must take into account the contexts of learners' lives, and that it must question, rather than quietly accept, existing practices.

Voices of beginning and experienced teachers are heard often in the book, exploring how such an unquiet pedagogy might come to be. The authors examine the experiences of these teachers, as well as their own, showing how the classroom can become a place of inquiry for both teachers and students and how theory and research that provide an integrated perspective on language, literacy, and culture must inform teaching practice. Their aim is to transform the English classroom into a place where the imagination becomes central and where learners construct knowledge in the development of real literacy.

An Unquiet Pedagogy

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Ohio

Guided Reading 

Making Connections between Writing and Reading 

Interactive Writing & Interactive Editing 

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Pennsylvania

A New Twist on Information Literacy

Designed to motivate students to do more research, InfoQuest ensures that information literacy skills are continuously practiced.

Using InfoQuest, each week a different research question is posed. Students have all week to come to the media center and use a variety of reference tools and media to research the answer. Small prizes are awarded on Friday to the students who have researched the answer correctly. This guide to implementing InfoQuest in your library includes a wealth of ready-made resource sheets for specific subject areas as well as a list of resources for individualizing the program to meet your specific needs.

* Teach information literacy skills with minimum preparation for you and a whole lot of fun for students

* Encourages students' natural curiosity

* Gives students repetitive practice in developing research skills

InfoQuest

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ARC Advanced Readers Copy
Uncorrected Proof
Weightless
Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
by
Evette Dionne
Brand New Paperback Book

Comes from a smoke/pet free home! Thanks for stopping by!

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Texas

Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne

My body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations on, but it has never let me down.

In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black woman are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to diagnosis with heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationships with friendship, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image.

Along the way, she lifts back the curtain to reveal the subtle, insidious forms of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor's office, where any health ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites, where larger bodies are rejected or fetishized. On TV, where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne's unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love.

An unmissable portrait of a woman on a journey toward understanding our society and herself, Weightless holds up a mirror to the world we live in and asks us to imagine the future we deserve.

*ARC Advanced Readers Copy* Weightless

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith--in an evocative novel set against late seventeenth-century America, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. 300,000 first printing.

A Mercy

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Alabama

Charlie's New Friend

#paperback #teaching #reading #literacy #content-arealearning #education #informational

This book discusses in detail how children's trade books can be used to achieve the national standards in the content areas (math, science, and social studies). Freeman and Person begin with a concise discussion of the national standards and explain how they translate into usable teaching methods. Each of the new standards is discussed with a focus on how they correlate positively with the use of informational children's books. This book is a wonderful guide - not only to understanding the standards, but to finding practical, innovative ways of achieving them through the use of informational books. Freeman and Person model methods of encouraging a problem-solving atmosphere of inquiry in the classroom by providing sample lesson plans for various grade levels. They describe how to link content area writing with the use of informational children's books, and how to use these books with integrated thematic units. As each sample unit is presented in detail, many outstanding informational children's books are discussed.This book provides excellent ideas for pre- and in-service teachers for implementing books in the content area curriculum, and most importantly, recommends actual titles that can be used to supplement traditional textbook learning.

Connecting Informational Children's Books with Content Area Learning

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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.

Harvey "Smokey" Daniels; Steven Zemelman

A Community of Writers

Mary Adler; Eija Rougle

Building Literacy Through Classroom Discussion

Gail Boushey; Joan Moser

The Daily Five

Elizabeth McMahan; Susan Day; Robert Funk

Literature and the Writing Process

Jojo Moyes

The Giver of Stars

Ann-Marie Cyr; Kellie M. Gillespie

Something to Talk About

Joan Novelli

Shoe Box Learning Centers: Phonics

Kylene Beers; Robert E. Probst

Reading Nonfiction

Pablo Neruda

The Captain's Verses

Richard Allington (Editor); Sean Walmsley (Editor); Richard L. Allington

No Quick Fix

Janet Allen

Tools for Teaching Content Literacy

Frank Smith

Reading Without Nonsense

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

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

Nina Mikkelsen

Words and Pictures

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

No Spotlight Literacy

Eleanor Kutz; Hephzib Roskelly; Paulo Freire (Foreword by)

An Unquiet Pedagogy

M B Schuman and C DeCruz Payne

Guided Reading

Stanley L. Swartz, Adria F. Klein, & Rebecca E. Shook

Interactive Writing & Interactive Editing

Peggy Milam

InfoQuest

Evette Dionne

*ARC Advanced Readers Copy* Weightless

Toni Morrison

A Mercy

Ree Drummond

Charlie's New Friend

Evelyn B. Freeman; Diane G. Person

Connecting Informational Children's Books with Content Area Learning

Cris Tovani

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?

ARC Advanced Readers Copy Weightless