Energize Research Reading and Writing: Fresh Strategies to Spark Interest, Develop Independence, and Meet Key Common Core Standards, Grades 4-8
10 best books like Energize Research Reading and Writing: Fresh Strategies to Spark Interest, Develop Independence, and Meet Key Common Core Standards, Grades 4-8 (Christopher Lehman): Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers, Real Revision: Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers, Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning, Conferring: The Keystone of Reader's Workshop, Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook, Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices, Write Like This, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement, Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers
Naked Reading was inspired by the author's ten-year-old granddaughter, whose frequent practice of spending time after a shower air-drying in the privacy of the bathroom, so she can continue reading an engrossing book, made Teri Lesesne curious about what makes some tweens avid readers while others...
Real Revision: Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 1571108564 |
How do you show students that revision is more than a classroom exercise to please the teacher? Take them into the real world of writing for publication. In Real Revision, award-winning author and teacher Kate Messner demystifies the revision process for teachers and students alike and provides tried-and-true...
| Author | George Hillocks Jr. |
| ISBN | 0325013969 |
"In this book, George Hillocks teaches us not only what an argument is, but how to teach it and why we should. Essential reading for those preparing ALL students to think critically, write well, and succeed academically in both high school and college."
Jim Burke, Author of The English Teacher's...
Conferring: The Keystone of Reader's Workshop
| Author | Patrick A. Allen |
| ISBN | 1571107681 |
In his workshops with teachers over the years, Patrick Allen has encountered a long list of “counterfeit beliefs” about the process of conferring with students, including such comments as: “I don’t have time. I don’t know what questions to ask, It’s too hard, I don’t know what to write...
| Author | Aimee Buckner |
| ISBN | 1571107827 |
The question I grappled with was how to move students from “couch-potato” readers who can answer basic questions with one word–to readers who think while reading–to readers who think beyond their reading.
–Aimee Buckner
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner demonstrated...
Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 1571104259 |
Writing test scores indicate that boys have fallen far behind girls across the grades. In general, boys don't enjoy writing as much as girls. What's wrong? How can we do a better of job of creating “boy-friendly” classrooms so their voices can be heard?
In Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their...
| Author | Kelly Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1571108963 |
If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school...
| Author | Jeff Anderson |
| ISBN | 1571108106 |
Whether writing a blog entry or a high-stakes test essay, fiction or nonfiction, short story or argumentation, students need to know certain things in order to write effectively. In 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, Jeff Anderson focuses on developing the concepts and application of ten essential...
| Author | Lucy Calkins |
| ISBN | 0325043558 |
"As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious expectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not."
-Lucy Calkins, Mary...
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325042950 |
"I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to reading. It's never too late."-Penny Kittle
Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English...
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As a novice teacher, Meenoo Rami experienced the same anxieties shared by many: the sense of isolation,...
| Author | Kate Roberts |
| ISBN | 0325078165 |
"We have never seen teachers work harder than we do now. These tools inspire kids to work as hard as we are."
-Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts
What's DIY Literacy? It's making your own visual teaching tools instead of buying them. It's using your teaching smarts to get the most from...
What Readers Really Do: Teaching the Process of Meaning Making
| Author | Dorothy Barnhouse |
| ISBN | 0325030731 |
Drawing on their own lives as readers and writers and years of experience working in classrooms as coaches, staff developers, and consultants, Dorothy Barnhouse and Vicki Vinton offer practical tips for meeting today's rigorous standards while reminding us of the deeper, enduring purposes and...
The Art of Slow Reading: Six Time-Honored Practices for Engagement
| Author | Thomas Newkirk |
| ISBN | 0325037310 |
"Tom Newkirk's call to appreciate the value of slow reading is both timely and important, especially in an era where skimming and click-and-go reading have become the norm for our students. Newkirk reminds us that our deepest reading pleasures are often found when we slow down and pay close attention,...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 9780325046 |
"Notice and Note" picks up where Keene and Zimmermann left off (or left us hanging) with strategy-based comprehension instruction. Like many teachers in the 1990's, after I read Keene & Zimmermann's "Mosaic of Thought" I attempted to explicitly teach visualizing, connecting, inferencing,...
| Author | Jennifer Serravallo |
| ISBN | 0325026807 |
For teachers who sometimes feel as if data-based instruction, differentiated groupings, and formative assessments somehow involve going over to The Dark Side, this book is a powerful antidote. It will help you know that you can hold tight to your deepest beliefs about children and literature, classrooms...
Who Owns the Learning? Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age
| Author | Alan C. November |
| ISBN | 1935542575 |
While the world outside the classroom has developed, classroom instruction has remained stagnant. Students are encouraged to just cover the curriculum and the power of purpose and meaningful contribution are absent. Furthermore this old way of doing things doesn't credit students' natural curiosity...
| Author | Peter H. Johnston |
| ISBN | 1571108165 |
"Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing...
| Author | Ruth Culham |
| ISBN | 0872070999 |
It's been said that good writers borrow while great writers steal. Writing thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief-and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves,...
| Author | Jan Burkins |
| ISBN | 1625310757 |
In their follow-up to Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who’s Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that...
Revised edition of Comprehension & Collaboration coming late June 2015!
"This book is about small-group projects that work. It's about combining what we know about the research process, about thinking, and about people working together to create a structure that consistently supports...
| Author | Harvey Daniels |
| ISBN | 0325030871 |
"To have any hope of kids investing fully in the subject matter, we have to start by evoking their curiosity and get them interested in the topic. Engaging the students can't wait. If we wait for the fun stuff that might pop up later, the kids will have already jumped ship."
-Harvey "Smokey" Daniels...
