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Adrienne Gear continues the journey of effective literacy instruction with a focus on poetry. Combining writing, reading, and oral language skills, this book will provide teachers with a wealth of engaging lessons to bring the power of poetry into their classrooms.

Real-life problems are a remarkable tool to stretch student thinking and help them develop a deeper understanding of mathematics and its role in everyday life. Rather than using textbook exercises, this book argues that solving real-world problems promotes flexibility and encourages students to adjust and grow their thinking.

Provides an in-depth understanding of student behaviour, including identifying factors that trigger and maintain negative, disruptive actions and attitudes. The book provides an overview of appropriate reinforcement, and highlights many effective, evidence-based strategies that support permanent change.

Shows teachers how to develop the skills students need to be successful and how to cultivate passionate, lifelong readers. Classroom vignettes, promising practices, and step-by-step activities illustrate how teachers can weave teaching the skills of reading, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency with real reasons to read.

What's the difference between teaching our students and our autistic students? Not much. This practical book argues that all students are unique. It focuses on integrating teaching autistic students into the teaching practice of the whole class.

Based on what we now know about reading, this practical book offers strategies in a consistent format that is easy for teachers to incorporate in their daily instruction. This grab-bag of classroom-tested activities allows teachers to choose what they need to meet the diverse needs of students in grades 1 to 8.

A book to help teachers to connect to students with autism and support them along their own unique trajectory. Bringing to life communication difficulties that impact socialization and learning, this book removes the guesswork by offering practical solutions and classroom-tested strategies.

Explores ways teachers can collaborate and learn from each other in formal and informal situations. The book demonstrates that a mentoring relationship can benefit both new and experienced teachers. Full of strategies that are practical and easy to implement, it offers solutions to common questions, opportunities, and challenges.

The six essential steps for nurturing writers who have the will to write is the core of this practical book. Based on extensive classroom experience, the book explores how teachers can help students tap into their own life experiences, model the habits of a writer, and make use of the tools of the trade.

Uses thinking structures to deepen student writing. The book revolves around ""brain pockets"" to help students appreciate the qualities of different writing forms. Some powerful examples include memory pockets for personal narrative writing, fact pockets for nonfiction, and imagination pockets for story writing.

Examines a wide variety of daily tasks, from delivering engaging lessons to nurturing life skills. Throughout the book, simple steps for instruction are explained, along with suggestions for fun-filled activities and games.

Shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as they read and respond to quality children's literature.

How can teachers balance the needs of busy overwhelming classrooms with the needs of their own health and well-being? This timely book is about avoiding teacher burnout. It suggests that teachers can reduce the amount of time they work outside the classroom and still be a motivated and engaged teacher.

An essential guide for teachers on how to incorporate simple mindfulness activities and strategies to help foster self-regulation in the classroom and beyond. There are instructions, scripts, worksheets, and ready to use templates. The book defines self-regulation as students' ability to manage their own attention, emotions, and behaviour.

Shows teachers how to use freewriting to help kids write well and more, regardless of grade level, subject, time of day, or time of year. It is not a difficult process to implement and yet it makes a significant difference in teacher attitudes, student confidence, and, ultimately, student writing abilities.

Discover key strategies for making words the core of classroom instruction and engagement. Literacy guru Larry Swartz offers novel ways to expand students' interest in and facility with words and word power - day by day, word by word.

In this new book, David Booth answers questions about building skills in literacy, from phonics to comprehension, from simple exercises to rich reading materials. Drawing on more than 40 years of experience in education, David shares hard-learned lessons about what has-and hasn't-worked for him. This is both a practical guide and a personal chronicle of growth in the classroom.

Focus on reading with this wealth of single-page literacy activities that explore students' understanding of what they're reading, and encourage inventive and in-depth response from all students. Each activity uses a key aspect of literacy, from talk and oral reading to drama and the visual arts to writing and research, to examine the elements of any book, in any genre.

A host of inventive new ways to encourage students to become more effective learners by posing more thoughtful questions. Based on extensive classroom experience, this comprehensive guide helps teachers understand why questions are so important; promotes a simple, three-part classification of questions; offers models, techniques, and activities for better questioning; and much, much more.

Explores the essential steps for planning lessons that grab the attention of students and make them care about their learning. The steps address the key areas that are most important for meaningful learning: content, pedagogy, and building rapport with students. This practical book shows you how to make every lesson engaging, impactful, and fun.

Shows you how to get to know the needs and abilities of your students so you can help them make sense of maths concepts. You will discover how to structure learning experiences around key number concepts: quantity, counting, relating, and representing.

What do you need for a well-run classroom full of engaged students? Kathy Lundy takes you step-by-step through the nitty-gritty details of creating a classroom that works for you and your students. Based on extensive classroom experience, strategies throughout the book will help you become the teacher you want to be.

Our youngest learners thrive when their learning environment is one that celebrates curiosity, exploration, and imagination. This comprehensive resource sets the stage for play-based learning that will help children build a strong literacy foundation, as well as negotiate the choices they make in real life.

A playful look at all aspects of poetry -- guidelines, poetic forms, and "Top Ten" lists of favourites. From short activities to full classroom events, this engaging book focuses on both reading and writing your own poetry, and on experiencing poetry both on the page and read aloud.

Get back to basics with this look at the foundations of good essay writing. With personal and classroom anecdotes, ideas and strategies, and samples and reproducibles, this book offers advice that both teachers and students can really use. It's each chapter contains lessons along with teaching tips for teaching range of concepts.

Shows you how to connect with students, get to know what makes them tick, and what makes them behave and learn the way they do (or don't). The conversational style is supported by well-researched information on students with challenges and those students who challenge a teacher.

Shows teachers how to bring students on board with the ""writingest"" generation in history. The minilessons in this practical book go beyond grammar, spelling, and conventions to focus on comprehensive written communication as one of the essential skills for success. These fresh minilessons help students organise their thinking, solve problems, identify key ideas, and reflect on different perspectives.

Explores effective ways to build social emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read, and reflect on their learning as they develop into stronger readers and learners. This highly readable book includes a wealth of classroom examples and extensive hands-on activities.