Bringing Maths and English Together Across the Curriculum
Education is the business of developing minds for the future, but unlike most businesses we often find that schools fail to co-ordinate learning across all departments and therefore fall short of producing a fully rounded end product.
Lisa's mission is to transform thinking around curriculum and education to ensure that the ......
A Human-Centered Approach to Using Artificial Intelligence in Grades 6-12
Discover strategies to use AI thoughtfully in every stage of the writing process-without compromising creativity or critical thinking Feeling conflicted about integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into your writing instruction? You're not alone. In a world where AI-generated text can seem like a writing teacher's enemy, incorporating it into ......
A Practical Guide to Classroom Teaching and Whole-School Implementation
From the bestselling author of The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading, this is your essential guide to teaching reading in primary schools. Filled with classroom-tested, practical guidance, this book addresses common questions faced in every school by those seeking to improve reading. It offers a clear, evidence-informed approach that ......
A Practical Guide to Classroom Teaching and Whole-School Implementation
From the bestselling author of The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading, this is your essential guide to teaching reading in primary schools. Filled with classroom-tested, practical guidance, this book addresses common questions faced in every school by those seeking to improve reading. It offers a clear, evidence-informed approach that ......
Teaching writing that is relevant to your students and their futures What kind of writing do we do beyond school? It certainly isn't the well known 5-paragraph essay or tight iambic pentameter. In today's workforce, the purpose of writing is to communicate complex ideas specific to career fields. Students need more than simply mastering academic writing, so Teaching Writing From Content Classroom to Career shows how to combine writing instruction teachers already share - language selection, tone, voice, audience, organization, and style - with meaningful writing tasks so students can connect classroom writing to the world of work and their futures. Authors Maria C. Grant, Diane Lapp, and Marisol Thayre explain ways to show students how writing works in the world of work with: Ready-to-go lesson plans focused on relevant, world of work writing tasks and formats An overarching rubric of key skills as well as student-self-assessment rubrics to make instruction and implementation crystal clear Downloadable and reproducible tools for both students and teachers for ease of implementation Exemplar mentor texts from the workplace in multiple disciplines that showcase writing's essential connections to workforce readiness Suggestions for using AI to generate exemplar texts, and Examples of how to be a successful communicator who knows how and when to move in and out of different modes of language. Full of tools, resources, and strategies that are easy to implement and seamlessly overlay school writing curriculum, this book sets students on the path to academic and career success through writing.
A step-by-step guide to developing equitable literacy instruction by adapting curriculum to support diverse learners. In Teaching with Literacy Programs, Patricia A. Edwards, Kristen L. White, Laura J. Hopkins, and Ann M. Castle present a model that allows educators to address educational inequity through the critical and adaptive use of ......
Strategies to Build Students' Writing Skills, Stamina, and Success
Student Writers Go the Distance with a Strength-Training Approach Good writers don't wing it-they have a plethora of skills. They list, picture, circle, strategize and revise to make language come alive. They know what to use and when. Like ace athletes, they are highly trained, well-versed in the techniques found in this lively book. Writing Workouts provides a method for instruction that gives students the fun they want and the targeted skill practice they need. Slinky paragraphs, pop-up poems, paint chip plotting, and many other activities get the serious business of teaching critical and creative writing done. Author Rebecca Harper shows you how to go about it systematically, so writing is tied to relevant lessons and writing standards. Help students learn to: Hone skills in persuasive writing, argument, fiction, poetry, memoir and more Toggle between brief and multi-step writing tasks, to build stamina (and not hyperventilate when faced with complex compositions) Tap into auditory, visual, and kinesthetic, and digital components of crafting Think about word, sentence, and paragraph-level techniques Jump the high-jumps of research writing by getting good at each smaller leap Students in middle school and high school often feel they are forever-sprinting toward a high-stakes writing task. With Writing Workouts, you help students crowd out stress with a strength-training approach to success.
