Explore the research and practices around trauma-informed education in Trauma-Responsive Pedagogy an easy-to-digest, actionable text that elevates the healing and wellness of both the children and the adults in our classrooms.
Reading matters because it changes us. It changes the way we think, the way we see the world, the way we process information and dream new thoughts.
This new edition of When Kids Can’t Read—What Teachers Can Do is a guidebook for those who teach students who struggle with reading. Extensively rewritten by Kylene Beers, it offers practical teaching scaffolds and strategies in the areas of comprehension, vocabulary development, fluency, and engagement.
The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 is designed to be a trusted, research-aligned companion for any K–8 reading classroom—no matter your curriculum, subject area, or instructional approach. Connect crucial research to powerful practice, whether you need engaging lessons for whole-class teaching, support for small-group instruction, ideas for intervention, or ways to fill gaps in a core curriculum. The friendly design makes it easy to find strategies that meet every student where they are now.
Dramatically improve student writing by teaching with mentor texts in Grades K-5. A foundational guide to finding, analyzing, and teaching with mentor texts.
New! Writer’s Notebooks for students in grades 3 and 4 to collect and experiment with ideas for writing original pieces throughout the academic year!
The Writer's Notebook is also available in 5 packs.
Easy-to-follow teaching directions for compelling, engaging lessons!
From “Look, Quick!” to “Mystery Sums,” the twenty classroom-tested lessons in this resource provide friendly, meaningful support for using ten-frames. Ten-frames are one of the most important models that teachers can use to help students anchor to the landmark number ten and develop all aspects of number sense. They help students develop the skills they need to become flexible and fluent problem solvers.
A superb resource for teachers!
The twenty classroom-tested lessons and games in this resource transform the hundreds chart from a poster on the classroom wall into a hands-on, interactive tool used by both teachers and students.
The hundreds chart is one of the most important tools teachers can manipulate to help students think about our base ten number system and to build a mental model of the mathematical structure of it. Working with the hundreds chart helps learners develop the skills they need to become flexible and fluent problem solvers.
Strengthen teaching and deepen learning of number skills and concepts
From “Mystery Number” to “Hot Lava Bridge,” the forty classroom-tested lessons in this resource promote the flexible use of number paths and number lines to solve problems and scaffold or document students’ thinking.
Good Questions for Math Teaching, High School is a powerful resource that provides more than 375 examples of open-ended questions for creating dynamic learning environments and helping students make sense of math.
Designed as a supplement to your mathematics curriculum, the questions can be seamlessly embedded within lessons and units of study, used for warm-up routines and review, incorporated into assessments, and used to support intervention or small group instruction.
Good Questions for Math Teaching, K-5 is a powerful resource that provides more than 300 examples of open-ended questions for creating dynamic learning environments and helping students make sense of math.
Designed as a supplement to your mathematics curriculum, the questions can be seamlessly embedded within lessons and units of study, used for warm-up routines and review, incorporated into assessments, and used to support intervention and small group instruction.
Good Questions for Math Teaching, 5-8 is a powerful resource that provides more than 375 examples of open-ended questions for creating dynamic learning environments and helping students make sense of math.
The Writer's Notebook is also available in 25 packs.
Help your students find poetry inspiration If your students cringe at the word poetry, Whispering in the Wind is for you!
In this book, master educator Linda Rief provides a cure for poetry agony. She introduces “Heart Books,” a project inspired by the Heart Maps of Georgia Heard. Linda has used Heart Books throughout her career to help students read more poetry, connect with it, and see how they, too, could write poetically. She also shows how to easily weave poetry into your already busy schedule.
