Uses literacy basics to suggest concrete approaches that leaders and coaches can use to help teachers improve their instruction with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Based on firsthand experiences, research, and a school-university-community collaborative, this practical book homes in on what literacy leaders need to do in today's rapidly changing schools.
Uses literacy basics to suggest concrete approaches that leaders and coaches can use to help teachers improve their instruction with culturally and li...
Responding to the need to prepare elementary teachers for the increasing linguistic diversity in schools, this book presents key foundational principles in language and literacy development for linguistically diverse students. Readers see these ideas enacted through the journeys of real students as they progress from 1st through 6th grade.
Responding to the need to prepare elementary teachers for the increasing linguistic diversity in schools, this book presents key foundational principl...
Incorporating the newest research in vocabulary acquisition into the four-part model of vocabulary instruction that made the first edition a bestseller, this edition emphasizes vocabulary as an important tool in meeting the needs of increasingly diverse students. It also includes new instructional approaches to teaching vocabulary that have been classroom-tested since the previous edition.
Incorporating the newest research in vocabulary acquisition into the four-part model of vocabulary instruction that made the first edition a bestselle...
This resource will help K-2 teachers revitalize and restructure their classroom literacy instruction based on Marie Clay's groundbreaking and transformative literacy processing theory. This practical volume gives primary grade teachers specific suggestions for using these principles and includes rich, robust instructional examples to ensure that all children meet new and rigorous standards.
This resource will help K-2 teachers revitalize and restructure their classroom literacy instruction based on Marie Clay's groundbreaking and transfor...
Many writing teachers are searching for a better way to turn student writing into teaching and learning opportunities. This book introduces a rubric designed by the National Writing Project - the Analytic Writing Continuum. The authors use sample student writing and multiple classroom scenarios to illustrate how teachers have adapted this flexible tool to meet the needs of their students.
Many writing teachers are searching for a better way to turn student writing into teaching and learning opportunities. This book introduces a rubric d...
Shows how teachers can pursue and sustain personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices, even amidst the many demands associated with teaching. Chapter by chapter, the book provides strategies to help teachers get started on projects, build energy for writing, overcome obstacles, create support systems using online technologies, and develop coherence across their writing lives.
Shows how teachers can pursue and sustain personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices, even amidst the many demands associated with tea...
Step into a classroom and ""listen in"" on the writing initiatives and motivations of students who are given significant choice and agency in the development of their writing. Filled with rich portraits of in-class writing interactions and challenges, this book highlights various themes that help teachers become better observers and more responsive to the complexity of writing in children's lives.
Step into a classroom and ""listen in"" on the writing initiatives and motivations of students who are given significant choice and agency in the deve...
Focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts classrooms. With detailed analysis and authentic classroom vignettes, the author explores how teachers cultivate relationships for equity, utilize transformative language practices, demonstrate critical caring, and develop students' critical literacies.
Focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts clas...
Focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts classrooms. With detailed analysis and authentic classroom vignettes, the author explores how teachers cultivate relationships for equity, utilize transformative language practices, demonstrate critical caring, and develop students' critical literacies.
Focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts clas...
