Translate the science of learning into strategies for maximum learning impact in your classroom. The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How can educators best create the learning experiences students need to truly learn? How Learning ......
How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking
With Disciplinary Literacy in Action, learn to pool teacher strengths to use innovative literacy moves tailored to each discipline. This book relies on real-world implementation rather than using inauthentic add-ons for different disciplines.
This activity book is designed to be used in tandem with the fourth edition of Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills. Activities align with the textbook chapters, including the new chapters addressing emergent literacy, executive function, and math learning disabilities.
The most comprehensive text available on multisensory teaching, this book prepares today's educators to use specific evidence-based approaches that improve struggling students' language skills and academic outcomes.
Written by an authority in the dyslexia field, this is the first accessible guide to the close interplay of spelling and dyslexia. Kelli Sandman-Hurley talks the teacher or parent
through why kids with dyslexia find spelling so hard, and what we can learn from the spelling mistakes in their writing samples. Introducing key ......
Strategies for Vocabulary, Reading, and Writing Across Disciplines
Be the instructional coach multilingual students and their teachers need. As the population of multilingual learners (MLs) in K-12 schools continues to grow, instructional coaches must support content teachers to recognize these students' assets and address their linguistic, cultural, academic, and social-emotional needs. Leveraging her decades of facilitating and coaching experience in the fields of language, literacy, and professional learning, Margarita Calderon meets this urgent need with practical, evidence-based strategies to leverage the power of coaching in support of ML excellence. Through the individual chapters dedicated to academic language, reading, and writing instruction and strategies to promote student discourse and social-emotional learning embedded throughout, this book will give coaches what they need to guide all teachers toward ML excellence. Additional features include A step-by-step framework designed to help coaches promote teacher efficacy with MLs regardless of program setting or instructional approach Clear guidance for how to structure coaching sessions with teachers, driven by research-based approaches and observation and feedback protocols for accelerating student comprehension Myth-busting facts about the do's and don'ts of effective coaching for ML success Spotlights on the experiences of veteran coaches focusing on successes, challenges, and tips to remain resilient Individual and group reflection questions and tools at the close of each chapter Offering solutions to the challenges faced by MLs that content area teachers must be prepared to address, this book is a powerful tool coaches can use to move multilingual instruction beyond compliance to excellence.
Making Every English Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Reading and Writing goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all English teachers must ask: What can I do to help my students to become confident and competent readers and writers?'
Writing in the practical, engaging style of the ......
This K-5 book takes implementation and assessment to the next level by digging deeper into specific lessons and providing grade-level strategies, with an emphasis on planning and executing highly effective lessons supported by John Hattie's Visible Learning research.
English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom
This book builds on the authors' highly acclaimed first collaboration, Understanding English Language Variation in US Schools, and examines the need to integrate linguistically informed teaching into the secondary English classroom. It includes specific information about the language varieties students bring with them to school so that educators ......
