About the Author Jane Baskwill, a principal at Kingston and District school, and Paulette Whitman, a second-grade teacher at Annapolis East Elementary School, both in Nova Scotia, Canada, are well known as the authors of the Whole Language Sourcebook and other works that assist teachers in creating a more effective learning environment for children.

Every Child Can Read (Grades K-6)

Children's Books

Baskwill, Jane

Whitman, Paulette

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Scholastic Teaching Resources

Boost children's understanding of story structures with these adorable, moveable footbooks, jumbo storyboards, wallmats, puppets, and other tools that allow kids to play with print. Includes activities, favorite books, chants and rhymes, step-by-step instructions, and lots of photos that show how kids love to get their hands—and feet— on text when they can manipulate it! Predicting, retelling, inventing new storylines. . . the skills are as rich as the fun! For use with Grades K-2.

Big Interactive Literacy Builders (Grades K-2)

Parents and Teachers: Partners in Learning

Parenting & Relationships

Whether it's an antique armoire or fifteen pairs of rubber boots you're looking for, the hunt can end on someone else's cluttered front yard. In this light-hearted guide, two seasoned yardsalers share what they've learned about finding good times and good buys on the yard sale trail.

Jane & Paulette's Guide to Successful Yardsaleing

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Nimbus Publishing

In today's results-based classrooms, student engagement and fulfillment are too often left behind as teachers strive to meet external standards. This innovative book explores best practices and projects designed to meet the literacy learning needs of a diverse range of students. It is committed to connecting student knowledge, experience, and interests to literacy learning that is relevant and valuable.
 Providing detailed descriptions of actual classroom practices and practical suggestions for positive change in the classroom, the authors challenge teachers to reflect on both the projects described and their own teaching style:
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<li>how were learning outcomes, objectives, or standards addressed?</li>
<li>how did the teacher support and extend student literacy learning?</li>
<li>how did classroom assessment practices support student growth?</li>
<li>how were parents and the wider community involved from the beginning? </li>
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Based on decades of work in schools and rooted in extensive research, the book presents an effective framework for designing a curriculum that fosters student engagement. It explores all aspects of evaluation and suggests novel ways to use student self-assessment to help students recognize their own individual learning style.

Yes, But...If They Like It, They'll Learn It!: How to Plan, Organize, and Assess Learning Experiences with Meaning, Purpose, and Joy

Education & Teaching

Church, Susan

Swain, Margaret

Schools & Teaching

Pembroke Publishers

Getting Dads On Board offers teachers effective techniques for attracting, recruiting, and keeping fathers involved in their children's literacy learning. Real-life experiences illustrate how a father's individual interests, strengths, and identity can complement and enrich his child's learning. Filled with sample letters to send home (with suggested games and activities), as well as ideas for workshops and other literacy events, this book provides teachers with a range of tools they can use to get and keep dads on board.

Getting Dads on Board: Fostering Literacy Partnerships for Successful Student Learning

Based on research that shows that parents play a vital role in raising a reader, Books as Bridges offers an effective and efficient way to use touchstone texts, including children’s picture books, to help create a common reading experience for the class that can be extended to the home. This practical book introduces four guiding principles—predictable structures, nonfiction, comprehension, and imagination and language play—describing each principle in terms of a series of strategies, which are highlighted by their use with specific touchstone books, and supported by lists of related books to consider.

Books as Bridges: Using Text to Connect Home and School Literacy and Learning

It is widely accepted that when home and school work together, children's learning improves. Although this fact is readily acknowledged, communication between school and home is still often one-sided and remains a struggle for many teachers. This book explores a wide range of tools -- take-home information and materials, parent conferences, learning nights, and digital and social media -- for teachers to use in establishing and maintaining the parent-teacher relationship, one that holds the child at the center of all education decisions.

Attention Grabbing Tools: For Involving Parents in Their Children's Learning

Describes in verse and illustrations some of the many wonders of nature occurring around the world at one moment in time

Somewhere

Science, Nature & How It Works

Mondo Pub.

Literature & Fiction

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Books by Baskwill, Jane

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Every Child Can Read (Grades K-6)

Big Interactive Literacy Builders (Grades K-2)

Parents and Teachers: Partners in Learning

Jane & Paulette's Guide to Successful Yardsaleing

Yes, But...If They Like It, They'll Learn It!: How to Plan, Organize, and Assess Learning Experiences with Meaning, Purpose, and Joy

Getting Dads on Board: Fostering Literacy Partnerships for Successful Student Learning

Books as Bridges: Using Text to Connect Home and School Literacy and Learning

Attention Grabbing Tools: For Involving Parents in Their Children's Learning

Somewhere

Somewhere