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Recommended Titles
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Building Adolescent Literacy in Today's English Classrooms
by Randy Bomer
Building Adolescent Literacy in Today’s English Classrooms is built on a foundation of research into best practices and infused with the importance of young people learning to interact with others’ texts and to produce their own across many genres and media.
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Grammar Rants: How a Backstage Tour of Writing Complaints Can Help Students Make Informed, Savvy Choices About Their Writing
by Patricia A. Dunn and Ken Lindblom
Grammar Rants provides the background teachers need to speak with authority about punctuation, correctness, and other hot-button issues.
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Extending Children's Mathematics: Fractions & Decimals: Innovations In Cognitively Guided Instruction
by Susan B. Empson and Linda Levi
With illuminating examples of student work, classroom vignettes, "Teacher Commentaries" from the field, sample problems and instructional guides provided in each chapter, you’ll have all the tools you need to teach fractions and decimals with understanding and confidence.
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The Dynamics of Writing Instruction:
A Structured Process Approach for Middle and High School
by Peter Smagorinsky, Larry R. Johannessen, Elizabeth A. Kahn, and Thomas M. McCann
The book is packed full of how-tos, offering everything a teacher needs to get started: gateway activities, strategies, handouts, and a blueprint of possibilities to consider while interpreting and implementing the curriculum.
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The Continuum of Literacy Learning,
Grades PreK–8:
A Guide to Teaching, Second Edition
by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell
Where other assessment and benchmark systems leave you wondering "Now what?" Fountas and Pinnell have provided a link from assessment to instruction via proven classroom practices such as guided reading and read aloud.
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When Readers Struggle:
Teaching That Works
by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell
When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works is a comprehensive resource on struggling readers.
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RTI from All Sides:
What Every Teacher Needs to Know
by Mary Howard
With RTI from All Sides, Mary Howard shows how to make RTI live up to its promise.
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The RTI Daily Planning Book, K–6:
Tools and Strategies for Collecting and Assessing Reading Data & Targeted Follow-Up Instruction
by Gretchen Owocki
Gretchen Owocki gives you clear-cut directions and specific tools and strategies for RTI that are sensible and developmentally sensitive.
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Comprehension and Collaboration:
Inquiry Circles in Action
by Harvey Daniels & Stephanie Harvey
Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action occurs at the intersection of comprehension, collaboration, and inquiry and serves as a guide for teachers who want to realize the benefits of well-structured, student-led, cross-curricular projects.
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Literacy Beginnings:
A Prekindergarten Handbook
by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas
In their latest professional book, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas show you how to tap into young children’s excitement to introduce them to the world of literacy in joyful, engaging ways.
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Image Grammar, Second Edition:
Teaching Grammar as Part of the Writing Process
by Harry R. Noden
Each chapter is divided into two sections: concepts that show how professional writers develop their art and lesson strategies to implement these concepts in the classroom.
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The Inside Guide to the Reading-Writing Classroom, Grades 3-6:
Strategies for Extraordinary Teaching
by Leslie Blauman
Let Leslie show you how to help your students experience the high involvement, deep engagement, humor, and trust that come with knowing their abilities are appreciated and result in a true classroom community.
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The Next-Step Guide to Enhancing Writing Instruction:
Rubrics and Resources for Self-Evaluation and Goal Setting, For Literacy Coaches, Principals, and Teacher Study Groups, K-6
by Bonnie Campbell Hill and Carrie Ekey
Bonnie Campbell Hill and Carrie Ekey affirm the good work you’re doing, and inspire you to read further and incorporate new ideas so that you can teach writing even more effectively, intentionally, responsively, and joyfully with cutting-edge ideas in writing instruction.
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Teaching Middle School Writers:
What Every English Teacher
Needs to Know
by Laura Robb
While grounded in the common schedule constraints and curriculum demands of middle school, Laura Robb’s Teaching Middle School Writers offers teachers lessons and routines that are uncommonly attuned to adolescents’ developmental and social needs.
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Middle School Readers:
Helping Them Read Widely,
Helping Them Read Well
by Nancy Allison
In this book Nancy Allison turns paradox into perfectly doable instruction that both honors and cultivates student independence.
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English Language Learners Day by Day, K–6:
A Complete Guide to Literacy, Content-Area, and Language Instruction
by Christina M. Celic
Christina Celic’s foundational guide provides an authentic and meaningful answer to the question, “How can I teach the grade-level curriculum in a way that makes my English language learners successful?”
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"Stepping On My Brother's Head" and Other Secrets Your English Professor Never Told You:
A College Reader
Edited by Charles I. Schuster & Sondra Perl
These twelve provocative essays by some of America’s most distinguished teachers of writing were written to grab your students’ interest.
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Grammar for College Writing:
A Sentence-Composing Approach
by Don Killgallon & Jenny Killgallon
Grammar for College Writing: A Sentence-Composing Approach presents a new and easier way to understand grammar.
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