The How & Wow of Teaching
Simple ideas for improving classroom instruction in reading, writing and math, as well as building life skills and social-emotional learning.
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Teaching Tough Topics
A comprehensive guide to choosing and using the best children’s books to address sensitive but significant topics in the classroom.
Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World
An open-ended approach to giving students voice and challenging them to think critically about social justice issues.
Powerful Writing Structures
Writing strategies that focus on brain pockets to deepen all forms of writing.
The New Literacy Block
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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.
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.
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 a 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.
The ABCs of Blackness in Our Schools
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.
Simply the Math
A collection of methods for making mathematical operations visual and simple for students to understand. Students will develop working models and strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with small numbers that will extend to working with all numbers.
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.
Powerful Read Alouds
A practical guide to using purposeful read alouds as a foundation for literacy, thinking, and community in primary classrooms. Through real books and engaging classroom routines, teachers will learn how to enrich language and literacy learning while nurturing curiosity, connection, and joy in reading.
