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Both students and teachers will love this handy guide that features twelve classroom-tested strategies that add value to story writing. It will help students set and reach personal goals for using effective planning strategies, writing better beginnings and endings, writing with voice, dealing with spelling and usage demons, using purposeful revision strategies, and much more.

This powerful book helps teachers redefine an inclusive curriculum by questioning what is taught, how it is taught, to whom, and under what conditions. It offers teachers a wealth of challenging, open-ended pursuits that give students voice and help them better understand their world. A glossary of more than fifty strategies is included, along with reproducible pages for easy classroom use.

This practical book shows teachers how to plan literacy events that recognize and interpret the factors that readers and writers bring to the text. It offers successful strategies for becoming caring mentors who support and encourage students as they explore a variety of text forms - from poems to novels, from speeches to blogs, from art to invention.

How to teach the skills beginning writers need - from alphabet recognition and spelling, to strategies for self-editing and building coherent text! This resource offers effective strategies to help pupils master the skills they need to get off to a great start as writers. It also includes techniques for promoting printing, writing and reading.

This comprehensive guide offers a framework for using read-aloud and other oral language experiences to build reading comprehension skills and help students record, share, value, and interpret ideas. These organizational tools free students to listen more attentively; organize their responses; and watch for subtle clues, such as body language, that are an important part of listening.

This book explores innovative ways to motivate students using all forms of communication - books, magazines, blogs, movies, zines, the internet, television, music, comics, texting, newspapers, rap, video games, collector cards, and more. Based on the belief that literacy takes place everywhere, the book promotes learning strategies that incorporate what we see, read, hear, and do every day.

Explores the background and issues related not just to student-on-student bullying but also to all forms of bullying found in too many schools. This book suggests constructive ways the education community can handle all forms of bullying and helps educators implement innovative ways to heal a bullying school.

Shows teachers how to guide students through the various stages of the writing process and teach them to focus on the purpose for writing in all kinds of non-fiction. This book helps teachers assess what students know so they can plan more successful instruction. It enables teachers of content-area subjects discover ways to help their students.

This 32-page flipbook will guide writers through the seven essential steps to successful writing in any form. From idea to drafting to revision to final product, this handy resource has it all. Straightforward and easy to read, the book will help writers get started, stay motivated, and complete pieces of writing that they'll be proud to share.

Exploring innovative ways to organise vocabulary instruction in the primary classroom, this title also demonstrates how to create a positive, pupil-centred environment for the concept-based, multi-layered learning of words, and teach vocabulary during shared reading, guided reading, and independent time.

This compassionate overview deconstructs many of the assumptions parents and educators have about boys and the world of print. Included are the voices of boys and men, providing compelling insights into how to help all struggling readers, and support boys in their journey toward becoming successful readers and writers.

Provides a comprehensive approach to using role play and discussion to build language experiences that are meaningful for learners. It explores issues around storytelling, silent speech, writing and imagination and shows teachers how to be effective observers and support the deeper meaning that comes from working inside and outside the text.

Provides a comprehensive look at literacy and learning that includes reading, writing, oral communication, and digital literacy. This timely book shows teachers how to fit balanced literacy into a daily 100-minute literacy block using a framework of whole-class instruction and writing sessions, combined with independent work.

This timely book presents straightforward analysis and practical guidance on confronting bullying, taming the digital universe, and changing the troublesome trend in students' entitled attitudes toward learning and marks.It introduces three simple principles teachers can use to prioritise their approach to any teaching task.

Offers teachers a richly textured picture of the world of middle-school students. It describes who these students are, explains why fostering their voice is important, and discusses the creation of a community of literacy partners. It addresses topics related to technology, reading, writing, research, use of the arts, community, and assessment. It focuses on such important issues as recognising the impact of social media; the effect of the internet on research; the need for critical literacy; and the potential of the school library.

This practical and thoughtful resource is a follow up to the ground-breaking Reading Power books, which feature simple strategies for helping students focus on their "thinking" while they read. Using five thinking strategies - Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform - young writers will learn how to engage their readers' thinking through their writing.

The play-based learning and individualised strategies in this practical book build on the wide range of literacy skills present in the kindergarten classroom. This valuable resource explores simple ways to use traditional learning centres to provide children with real and authentic reasons to listen, speak, read, write, and view. Teachers will find a wealth of resources for creating meaningful learning experiences.

Create meaningful and unique learning opportunities with this comprehensive outline of improvisation and interpretation strategies that are easily incorporated into classroom instruction. This practical and useful book offers a host of sources for dramatic activity that include scripts, monologues, poetry, novel excerpts, and technology.

A deeper way of looking at picture books as tools for learning, this handy flip book describes how experiencing and responding to picture books can lead readers to new understandings, new learnings, and new wonderings. The book includes tips, charts, graphic organizers, and activities for use in the classroom or independently.