Teaching Vocabulary in the Content Areas
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.
What's Missing in Math Instruction?
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.
Yes, Genre Makes the Difference
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.
How to Win at Classroom Management in Six Easy Steps
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.
The New Literacy Block
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.
Active Brave Conversations
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.
Making Time for It All
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.
Students in the Driver's Seat
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.
Behind Closed Doors
The Last Dance Of Mary Kelly
You think you know the history, but until you turn the final page you won't know the whole story. The lives of Jack the Ripper's final victim and an American Journalist intersect in Victorian London in this exploration of 19th century injustices.
A Short History of British Columbia
This book explains BC’s early economic, territory and political developments and includes the struggle over borders, railways, tariffs, and schools. It goes on with the boom that preceded the First World War, the depression that followed, and such issues as scandals, prohibition, women’s suffrage, and the rise to power of the Social Credit.
Literacy Instruction Matters
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.
Bridging the Reading Gap
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.
Assessment in Action
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.
How People See
Canada in the 1990s. The approaching referendum on Quebec sovereignty is threatening to cleave the country in two, while a family struggles with the aftermath of a tragedy that changes their lives forever.
Reggio-Inspired Literacy in Primary Classrooms
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.
Original People, Original Television
Original People, Original Television offers an insightful, honest perspective into the development and launch of the first Indigenous television network, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Former Communications Director for APTN Jennifer David shares behind-the-scenes stories and a closer look at the call to action.
Nothing Is Us
Nothing Is Us is the true story of a boy's escape from his father's abusive grasp.
I Can Do Math
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.
Powerful Thinking
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.
Surviving Vancouver
This book asks and answers two questions. What’s survived in Vancouver? And how do you survive in Vancouver? Michael Kluckner explores the contested space of Metro Vancouver, using his classic watercolour images from the past 25 years.
Messing Around with Math
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.
Radio Daze
When acclaimed comic writer Aaron Zevy began to collect vintage radios, his friends and family hoped they might get a respite from the barrage of short stories which had been filling their inboxes. After all, how much trouble can one man, no matter how unusual and prone to social and dating mishaps, get into?