“Students need to be reminded that revision isn’t merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.”
—Georgia Heard

“You mean I have to change my writing?” Georgia Heard frequently hears this question from students as well. “We must welcome... more

Barry Lane’s bestselling  After THE END helped teachers see revision in a whole new light, and inspired a generation of students to not only embrace revision, but to realize that writing is revision.  The long-awaited second edition keeps Barry’s humorous and endearing tone and updates his ideas, lessons, and activities for teaching writing with heart,... more

A best-selling and beloved teaching resource, Awakening the Heart inspired thousands of teachers to learn the power of infusing poetry into the everyday life of their classrooms rather than relegating it to one month out of the year.

In this fresh new edition, Georgia Heard offers updated strategies, lessons, mentor texts, and examples from both professional... more

Beyond Pizzas & Pies is all about building a foundational understanding of fractions

This book helps teachers and students understand fractions as numbers, including the use of equivalency and thinking about benchmark numbers, so that when students start to compute with fractions (see the companion volume, Beyond... more

“To help every kid fall in love with at least one field of knowledge, our students must encounter our fields’ most galvanizing, tantalizing, and pivotal documents. This book is about making those encounters as compelling as we can make them.”
—Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Steven Zemelman

We are specialists to the bone—in... more

The bestselling first edition of Essential Linguistics presented the basic concepts of linguistics in everyday language, and showed the connections between linguistic theory and classroom practice.  David and Yvonne Freeman make the Second Edition even more valuable by:

• clearly explaining

Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition of Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell remind you... more