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Both the new national curriculum in Australia and the Common Core State Standards in America have identified literacy as a cross-curricular capability that is critical to school and future success. This book will assist content-area teachers in understanding and teaching the literacy skills that apply to their various subjects. The role of literacy learning in humanities and social studies, science and technical subjects is explained in detail, including examples of lessons designed to ensure student mastery. Although the focus of the book is on unpacking the Common Core, there is significant correspondence with the Australian Curriculum, and Australian teachers will find much of value for enhancing their instruction.

Each thematic unit integrates activities across the curriculum in English, maths, science, social studies, art, music and life skills. Many of these activities encourage cooperative learning and suggestions, and patterns for display boards are provided. Culminating activities enable students to synthesise their knowledge in order to create products that can be shard beyond the classroom. Each thematic unit includes: literature selections, planning guides, writing ideas, homework suggestions, curriculum connections, group projects, a culminating activity and a reading list. Each book provides activities and lesson ideas based on two or more popular children’s stories.

Transformative Talk assists an aspirant Cognitive Coach in building their coaching capabilities. It draws upon each of the insights and experiences of Cognitive Coaching training associates and agency trainers who are 'walking the talk' in their own lives and careers. Each chapter at varying degrees reflects personal journeys shared with the explicit intention to assist you in making connections to your own work and your growth as a coach.Talk is critical to the complex, challenging and intrinsically satisfying work of educators. This book provides you with the opportunity to continue transforming your talk so you can transform the thinking of others in the process of education.

Teach Them Thinking Mental Menus for 24 Thinking Skills. If you are convinced of the importance of teaching thinking skills in the classroom, this is a must have resource. Twenty-four skills are presented along with ready to use sample lessons.

Designed for primary students, this resource incorporates the ideas of blooms taxonomy and multiple intelligences in a practical and fun way. The activities cover themes such as seasons, measuring time and cycles in our world and can be used by teachers to supplement their own classroom ideas. Each interdisciplinary unit of work includes activities that are individually coded for multiple intelligences. The activities have defined learning outcomes, promote creative thinking, draw out students' intellectual capabilities.

This is a delightful activity book for early childhood/primary school students, years P-2. The resource contains 20 superbly illustrated themes based around Bloom's Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences theory. Each theme is broken into parts, providing a thorough investigation of each topic. Activities are designed to promote creative thinking and to stimulate intellectual capabilities. Themes include community, travel, Aborigines, toys, dinosaurs, holidays, plus many more.

Do basic skills have to be boring? Absolutely not! This series uses exciting adventures and delightful characters to help teach fundamental skills and provide a foundation for learning. The books address specific content areas; present tasks that grab the attention and curiosity of students; contain clear directions to the students; ask students to use, remember and practise basic skills and; challenge students to be creative and analytical.

What is your first reaction to the term ‘back to basics’? Unfortunately, many students and teachers immediately think of unimaginative workbooks and dull, dry questions and answers. This is a myth laid to rest by The Basic Not Boring Series. Each book represents a carefully researched skills sequence and features exercises based on age-appropriate, high-interest themes developed by a team of experienced educators to make basic, fundamental skills exciting and achievable. The Basic Not Boring books will empower students to master skills and concepts needed to move successfully and with enthusiasm into the next level of lifelong learning. Complete coverage of basic social studies skills in: World Understandings, World Geography, Map Skills, World History, Australian History

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.

The achievement gap is a persistent and perplexing challenge for educators. Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time identifies small, specific adjustments to planning, teaching and assessment practices that will support more effective learning in every student, every day, and help close the achievement gap on a classroom-by-classroom basis. Minding the Achievement Gap also features the voices of working educators who share how "minding the gap" has helped them engage academically at-risk students and special education students; improve students' test scores; and sustain these gains over time.

Marzano Research combines Dr Robert Marzano's 40 years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice. Marzano Research provides teachers and school leaders with the tools they need to effect profound improvement in student achievement. This series is a collection of Marzano Research's invaluable resources.

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.