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Gretchen Owocki

For more than 15 years, Gretchen Owocki has helped teachers find researched-based practices that improve learning by letting students experience curriculum as part of their own development. In popular Heinemann titles likeThe Common Core Lesson Book, K–5; The RTI Daily Planning Book, K–6ComprehensionMake Way for Literacy; and Time for Literacy Centers, she has shared teaching that engages students through authentic, meaningful tasks and challenges them to grow as readers. A professor at Saginaw Valley State University, Gretchen is a Heinemann Professional Development Services provider.

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Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey share tips and principles of vocabulary instruction from their latest ... Making Word Learning Fun for All Students

Donald Graves (1930-2010), a long-time University of New Hampshire literature professor and prolific... Secrets of a Master Writer: An Interview with Donald Graves

Jim Burke shares how a question-driven classroom engages adolescents of the digital age inside schoo... How big questions engage and motivate students who have grown up digitally