This practical resource for middle and secondary school teachers presents a fresh approach to literature that makes the study of any genre more meaningful and exciting.

Reading Response Logs

Education & Teaching

Wells, Jan

Kooy, Mary

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

Explains how to use a literature-based reading program to encourage a love of reading in three- to eight-year-olds

Real Books for Reading

Want to guarantee that students are learning rich vocabulary all day, everydayand, by doing this, improving their reading and writing? In this lively, research-based book, based on successful classroom practice, the authors offer dozens of strategies, mini-lessons, units , and activities that increase students' exposure to and appreciation of sophisticated language.
A sampling of the vocabulary-focused strategies and tools include:
 Using daily read alouds and think alouds during shared reading to gather powerful language from literature
 Organizing literature circles with one student serving as the word hunter”
 Engaging in whole class and small group lively games such as gift of words bingo and ricochet
 Using mentor texts as models for writing class books
 Appointing all students to be word catchers” and word coaches” for each other
 Establishing a classroom community where it is considered normal to ask about word meanings and experimenting with language
 Collecting and displaying words in the Bank of Powerful Language”
 Offering rubrics for word learning assessment
In addition, the authors offer lively ways to enhance word consciousness by linking reading and writing through step-by-step units on poetry, memoir, stories, and research writing. For use with Grades 4-8.

The Word-Conscious Classroom: Building the Vocabulary Readers and Writers Need

Reference

Scott, Judith

Skobel, Bonnie

Words, Language & Grammar

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an

This is a comprehensive guide to selecting and using real books to nurture a love of reading and language in 3 to 8 year-olds. It will help teachers, librarians, and parents to evaluate books most appropriate for children at specific points in their development as readers. Of particular value is the chapter on realistic, practical criteria for choosing books for home, library, and classroom.  "Real Books for Reading" is illustrated with delightful examples of children's response to literature. The extensive bibliography is organized around ten categories that reflect realistically the stages of children's reading development from pre-reader to independent reader.

Hart-Hewins, Linda

Pembroke Pub Ltd

Phonics, Too!

Pembroke Publishers

This comprehensive handbook shows teachers how to build a foundation for writing with effective lessons that are the key to powerful writing workshops.
Writing Anchors demonstrates how to create a supportive classroom, model writing experiences, and create enthusiasm for writing among students. The practical lessons explore the major elements of writing, with explicit strategies for teaching the major forms of writing:
<ul>
<li>Informational writing—detailed descriptions of ways to take and organize notes, use text features, and create reports that have voice; </li>
<li>Poetry and personal writing— language choice, imagery, using the senses, and finding the personal pulse of the writer; </li>
<li>Narrative—extends writing skills with lessons on story sequence, problem solving, and character development.</li>
</ul>
The lessons form "metacognitive anchors" that build an understanding of the elements of powerful writing. Each lesson comes with an anchor cue card that prompts students to apply their growing understandings independently in writing workshops and in assessing their own writing. In addition, the book provides more than thirty effective tools that are ready to copy and use in the classroom—writing checklists, rubrics for assessment, graphic organizers, note-taking grids, semantic maps, story maps, tips for proofing, and student examples collected from grade 2–7 classrooms.

Writing Anchors: Explicit Lessons That Identify Criteria, Offer Strategic Support, and Lead Students to Take Ownership of Their Writing

Reid, Janine

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

This comprehensive resource shows you how to develop a classroom where reading time is more popular than recess. Based on the authors' belief that using real books and real writing experiences help children not only become literate but also lovers of reading, Better Books! Better Readers! offers practical guidelines for creating classrooms that foster language learning.
Organized around three evolving categories—Beginning Readers and Writers, Developing Readers and Writers, and Fluent Independent Readers and Writers—Better Books! Better Readers! suggests detailed ideas for: 
<ul>
<li>choosing and leveling books;</li>
<li>selecting specific books to meet the needs of children;</li>
<li>creating reading and writing activities;</li>
<li>organizing time and space in the classroom.</li>
</ul>
An extensive bibliography featuring the best and newest children's books will make leveling easier than ever for teachers. Better Books! Better Readers! is an invaluable guide that no teacher with an interest in children and reading will want to be without.

Better Books! Better Readers!

Routledge

This inductive Bible study focuses on the message for the Christian churches in the region of Galatia by carefully examining the apostle Paul’s concerns for this group of believers. Each week’s lesson of the in-depth ten-week study also includes a close look at one of the fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22,23 so students can consider its evidence in their own life. The nature and role of the Holy Spirit is studied throughout the lessons. 
The study provides a number of options for completing the lessons. The study also offers a reflection in Scripture to provide a time of worship as a conclusion to the daily lesson.

Galatians and the Fruit of the Spirit

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Xulon Press

The Life of David

Women of the Word

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