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In this second edition of Independent Reading Inside the Box, Lisa Donohue shares what she has learned from the many teachers who have used her simple approach to reading response. Lisa describes how teachers can do even more to strengthen student comprehension, language and thinking skills. Full of new ways to monitor, assess and support students as they are actively engaged in their reading, the book remains committed to the premise that independent-reading time is purposeful and directly connected to classroom instruction.

The Essentials for Achieving Rigour series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring and adapting instruction. Readers can put the guides to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in their own classrooms.

Inside-Out covers topics such as using topographic maps to better understand landforms, exploring the physical landscape of a local area, learning how water sustains biological organisms, and discovering the relationship between soil conditions and local flora - employing both field- and classroom-based lessons to convey important environmental science concepts.

This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the most influential theories and models of reading and literacy, ranging from behaviourism and early information-processing theories to social constructionist and critical theories. Focusing on how these theories connect with different curricular approaches to literacy instruction (preschool to Year 12), the author shows how they both shape and are shaped by everyday literacy practices in classrooms. Readers are invited to explore detailed vignettes that offer a practice-based view of theories as they are brought to life in the classroom. This book devotes substantial attention to linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms and 21st-century technologies.

This survival guide for substitute teachers presents strategies that can help you get students on your side and make classroom management easier for the whole day and beyond. This handy resource includes tips for teaching and descriptions of students at each year level; full day plans with thematic lessons and reproducible pages for all year levels; lesson plans for different subject areas; and guidelines for dealing with classroom routines such as attendance, recess and dismissing students. Ideal for new teachers, an experienced teacher filling in or a classroom teacher looking for new ways to connect with students, this timely book offers what you need to survive and succeed.

How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build n their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools become places where everyone is learning from each other? These are the questions that guide the work of teachers at the well-known Mission Hill School and that are addressed in this book. Teaching in Themes will help schools incorporate a whole-school, theme-based curriculum that engages students across years F-8.

What Every Secondary School Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests (From Someone Who Has Written Them) Offers extensive, practical strategies to help students perform well on tests. This ready-to-use, easy-to-understand resource provides a wealth of information about reading tests, including high-quality preparation materials, samples of the most frequently assessed types of reading standards and engaging core-reading activities. This book provides a wealth of resources that can be incorporated into a teacher's everyday reading work, including vocabulary development, literary techniques, interpretation, comprehension and more.

This book offers teachers theory-based strategies for helping those students become motivated and successful readers and writers. You will see how one middle school teachers sets up her literacy classroom, offers intervention and support for struggling students and assesses their progress. Rich in description of Kyle's successes, the book also looks honestly at why some practices were ineffective in her setting. There's Room For Me Here includes record-keeping forms, extensive bibliographies of literature for shared and independent reading, professional materials and resource information, and samples of strategy lessons all embedded in this engaging story of a teacher's first three years building a literacy workshop in her classroom.

A call to action that is both passionate and practical, Five practices for equity-focused school leadership is an indispensable roadmap for educators undertaking the journey toward an education system that acknowledges and advances the worth and potential of all students.

Designed as a guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact. Promote F-12 student growth through research-based instructional strategies, performance-based assessments and social-emotional learning (SEL).

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research refers to experiments conducted to address problems in those fields that can be tested using the scientific method. The scientific method is an inquiry process used to systematically study, investigate and to provide explanations for observed phenomenon in the natural world. This method is used by STEM professionals to answer questions they have about important world problems and usually includes carefully orchestrating a situation that allows them to observe, measure and test their ideas.

ASCD Arias publications provide concise answers to challenging questions that you need to solve today—in a convenient format that you can read in one sitting and immediately put into practice. They’re the next-generation, immediate-need resources for everyone committed to the success of each learner.