This practical, all-in-one guide helps students master content-area vocabulary through powerful word-learning strategies and thinking routines, while giving teachers the tools to deepen their own instructional knowledge.
A practical approach to ensuring that students succeed on any math test. Teachers explore four evidence-based practices that set students up to understand, navigate, and demonstrate their knowledge of math concepts.
Everything a teacher needs to use picture books, poetry, novels and nonfiction in grades 2–8 classrooms. Full of practical literacy activities that will encourage students to read and write in all genres.
This timely book provides K-12 teachers and anyone working with Black young people the background and strategies they need to inspire students to affirm Black identity and joy. It reflects sound principles for fostering belonging and celebrating learning and culture in our classrooms.
In this practical guide, Angie Barrett shares her tried and tested teaching strategies in six easy steps. You’ll find a game plan for success, personal and colleague-shared experiences, tips and tricks, as well as troubleshooting through real classroom examples.
A fresh approach to structured literacy that makes every minute count. This thoughtful examination of instructional practices and routines will enable teachers to systematically address the alphabetic code (word recognition and decoding) and the necessary language comprehension skills students need to become proficient readers and writers.
A practical, positive approach that helps teachers navigate issues and topics around inclusion and equity. The focus on belonging makes brave conversations on these issues safe for students and teachers alike.
A must-read for teachers seeking to simplify their literacy instruction while still delivering a comprehensive, high-quality, research-based program. With this approach, teachers can finally feel confident that they are doing it all—reaching every learner, making the most of every minute, and building a classroom where students thrive.
Put each student in the driver’s seat of their learning by creating a student-centred classroom. Everything a teacher needs to help students find joy, purpose, and meaning in their learning.
Many teachers feel ill-prepared to teach their students to read and write. This book empowers teachers with its overall approach and countless specific strategies, all grounded in research and strong pedagogy.
A comprehensive series of lessons that address phonics, morphology, and vocabulary for teachers working with students in grades 4–8. With a wide range of learners in every classroom, engaging activities and carefully curated lists scaffold instruction for emergent to competent readers.
This book provides an active and engaging approach to student-centred teaching and learning. Instruction and assessment are woven together seamlessly to inform planning and motivate learning.
In this practical book, teachers will find hands-on, Reggio-inspired practices that focus on building literacy skills through nurturing concepts of identity and shared knowledge alongside children.
I Can Do Math shows teachers how to inspire confidence in students as they learn math concepts in a creative, playful way. Reproducible single pages involve students in coloring and solving puzzles and exercises as they cut, fold, and create 90 unique minibooks.
Ready-to-use thinking strategies that helps student connect, question, visualize, inform, and transform their learning across the curriculum. Explicit, targeted lessons to foster literacy development and nudge student learning as students construct meaning, build knowledge, and think more deeply about content-area learning.
Provides a wide range of ready-to-use problems around key concepts in math: numeracy, mental math, fractions, addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, measurement, spatial sense, financial literacy, equations, and graphing.
A unique approach that focuses on developing the cognitive skills common to science and literacy. Fail-safe strategies and activities can be easily implemented by any teacher wanting to engage students.
In this practical book teachers will find strategies focused on self-regulation, word recognition, language comprehension, along with various ways to connect and strengthen each aspect of reading.
Build a classroom landscape that includes students sharing ideas and thinking, exploring ways of knowing, and integrating all methods and modes of learning. With strong student-to-student mentoring, children gain new ways of looking at learning, problem-solving, challenges, and the world around them.
Over 40 practical lessons that guide teachers to confront racism and discrimination, and that lead young people to take action for inclusion and tolerance.
The literacy fundamentals school leaders need to understand and support teachers and students. This book empowers principals to inspire and lead schools where reading, writing, and literacy flourish.
Week-by-week, step-by-step skill progressions and model lesson plans for teaching phonics in K–3 classrooms. This blueprint to effective reading instruction includes tools for easy classroom use: high-impact activities, word lists, phoneme-grapheme grids, word ladders, and more.
60 practical lessons that guide students to write in a variety of forms. Organized alphabetically, they give students opportunities to read books that can inspire their writing and to write for a variety of purposes.
With the increasing stressors in today’s classrooms, inclusivity and belonging can feel like impossible goals. Finding a Place for Every Student makes it simple, with tried-and-tested strategies, real-life case studies, insights into relationships with parents and caregivers, and a wealth of hands-on reproducibles.
