An invaluable resource for schools working to enhance their organizational capacity to boost student learning, this book provides a framework for collaborative professional development, outlines its principles, and supplies an array of tools that help structure and support the efforts of literacy coaches, staff developers, administrators, and teacher leaders. Tools for Leaders guides faculties in identifying what they need to learn and supplies the expertise to help them meet those needs. For use with Grades K-12.

Tools for Leaders: Indispensable Graphic Organizers, Protocols, and Planning Guidelines for Working and Learning Together

Education & Teaching

Larner, Marjorie

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an

Build a love of literature with these adorable comprehension-based projects. First, kids read any book, then they complete an engaging activity that helps them show what they understand about their reading. Projects from A to Z, such as Accordion Books, Book Bags, Story Quilts, and Story Zippers get kids excited about book reports, and encourage critical and creative thinking about story elements. Great for independent or small group learning! For use with Grades 2-4.

Quick & Creative Reading Response Activities: More Than 60 Sensational Make-and-Learn Activities to Help Kids Respond Meaningfully to What They Read

Fowler, Jane

Newlon, Stephanie

Stephanie, Newlon

Pop these poems in a pocket chart and build important reading skills! Children develop decoding strategies as they solve fun guess-me poems that target key sound-letter relationships—initial consonants, long- and short vowels, and more. Comes complete with step-by-step lessons, pocket-chart poems, reproducible picture cards, and follow-up activities. For use with Grades PreK-2.

30 Pocket Chart Poems That Teach Phonics: Irresistible Poems With Ready-to-Use Picture Cards That Teach Initial Consonants, Long and Short Vowels, and More

Linda B. Ross

Help students become confident, fluent readers using poetry. Compiled by a reading specialist, this book includes 50 engaging poems specially selected for building different aspects of oral reading fluency: poems to build intonation and phrasing, poems to build phonics patterns and sight words, and poems for repeated, expert readings. Also includes poems that are just right for partner and small group reading. Plus, research-based background on reading fluency and oral reading strategies to help students succeed. For use with Grades 3-4.

Perfect Poems: With Strategies for Building Fluency (Grades 3-4)

Scholastic, Inc.

With technology, today's students—even young students—have a world of information at their fingertips. However, many lack the skills to access, evaluate, and use information effectively. This book gives K–3 teachers easy-to-implement cognitive strategies for developing those skills, such as identifying facts, interpreting facts, making connections to facts, and building knowledge. The author demonstrates how to model strategies and help students apply them. The result: students become information literate, ready for more challenging reading in the upper grades. For use with Grades K-3.

Teaching the Information Generation: Strategies for Helping Primary Readers Understand the Fact-Filled Texts They Encounter Throughout Their School Years (Theory and Practice)

Benson-Castagna, Vicki

The JUST FOR YOU!(tm) series features 24 beginning readers written and illustrated by people of color. Young readers will see themselves and their experiences reflected in these delightful books. They will read about how the characters spend their time with family and friends-at home, in school, at the park or barber shop, and other places in their community. These age-appropriate stories include books at three different reading levels. Plus, each book contains instructional-and fun-material for caregivers that targets comprehension and key vocabulary. For use with Grades K-1.

Just For You!: Lights Out

Children's Books

Angela Medearis

Literature & Fiction

When preschool children receive high-quality literacy instruction, it benefits their emotional and cognitive development enormously. But what does high-quality literacy instruction” look like? In this research-based, yet practical resource, Lea McGee answers this important question. She shares five guidelines that can help transform preschool programs: 1) develop a vision of standards and monthly goals 2) use a mixture of embedded and direct instruction, 3) create a shared definition of systematic, direct instruction, 4) help all teachers become masters at delivering instruction, and 5) seek agreement on a plan for how to begin making changes. She also provides strategies and lessons to help teachers meet these guidelines. Also includes case studies that show teachers that transforming their classrooms is achievable. For use with Grade PreK.

Transforming Literacy Practices in Preschool: Research-Based Practices That Give All Children the Opportunity to Reach Their Potential as Learners

McGee, Lea M.

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

Wells, Jan

Skobel, Bonnie

Words, Language & Grammar

This book provides situations and issues that teachers may encounter when working with ELLs, and offers grade-level appropriate solutions, teaching approaches, and activities to address them. Each chapter opens with a brief overview of relevant research and key teaching principles. The book is framed around real questions from real teachers in the field and offers strategies related to oral communication, reading, writing, assessment, special need students, and home school issues. For use with Grades 6 &amp; Up.

Teaching English Language Learners: Grades 6 12: Strategies That Work

Samway, Katharine

Taylor, Dorothy

English as a Second Language

Reading expert Michael F. Opitz takes a fresh look at fluency. He replaces myths and misinformation—including the idea that speed in reading is the ultimate goal—with clear facts to help you understand how all the key aspects of fluency support students as they learn to read and comprehend. After outlining his definition of fluency, Opitz provides the following 12 steps to help students learn to read with appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression. For use with Grades K-5.

Don't Speed. Read!: 12 Steps to Smart and Sensible Fluency Instruction

Opitz, Michael

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