Nonfiction

These Threads Become a Thinner Light

P.L.A.N. for Better Learning

4 simple steps for designing lessons that boost thinking and maximize learning.

Conquering the Crowded Curriculum

Discover innovative ways to conquer the many curricular challenges in today's diverse classrooms!

"This Is a Great Book!"

101 events for building enthusiastic readers inside and outside the classroom — from chapter books to young adult novels.

Reading Power

Teaching students to think while they read.

Dramatic Play in the Early Years

Classroom Routines for Real Learning

Daily management exercises that empower and engage students.

Exploding the Reading

Building a world of responses from one story: 50 interactive strategies for increasing comprehension.

Stop the Stress in Schools

Mental health strategies teachers can use to build a kinder gentler classroom.

Q Tasks

How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers.

Dramathemes

Classroom literacy that will excite, surprise, and stimulate learning.

3-Minute Motivators

More than 200 ways to reach, teach, and achieve more than you ever imagined.

The ANIE

A math assessment tool that reveals learning and informs teaching.

Nonfiction Writing Power

Teaching information writing with intent and purpose.

Struggling Readers

Why band-aids don't stick and worksheets don't work.

I've Got Something to Say!

How student voices inform our teaching.

Students at Risk

What's Next for this Beginning Writer? Revision

Mini-lessons that take writing from scribbles to script.

Guiding Readers

Making the most of the 18-minute guided reading lesson.

Creating Caring Classrooms

How to encourage students to communicate, create, and be compassionate of others.

Learning in Safe Schools

Caught in the Middle

Reading and writing in the transition years.

Writing Power

Engaging thinking through writing.

Rock & Roll Literacy

Sigmund Brouwer brings his unique sense of play to the serious business of learning to read and write.