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Questions that students care about are crucial to successful learning. Q-Tasks was instrumental in showing teachers how to empower students to develop their own questions and build their critical thinking and inquiry skills. In this new, totally revised edition, the book also addresses how teachers can use the power of technology to promote collaboration among students.

This lively new book introduces the power of the storyboard in the creative process — from brainstorming ideas to developing, revising, and finalizing stories. It describes an eight-stage process that shows, step-by-step, how students can create unique, action-filled pages for their stories and books. Planning suggestions, glossaries of visual terms, and ready-to-copy storyboards are all a part of the active process described.

Conquering the Crowded Curriculum builds on the four principles of identity, imagination, innovation, and integration that together form a framework that connects the curriculum by using one subject to enrich others.

An ideal review for teachers, this innovative flip book shows students how to identify their learning style as they build important information literacy skills.

More than band-aid solutions that focus on discrete skills that don't transfer to real reading, this insightful book shows teachers how to give struggling readers what they really need: the opportunity to read texts they can and want to read; explicit instruction in long-term strategies they can use on their own; confidence in themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers.

A simple, balanced approach to writing workshops in grades 3-9. Organized around six main writing genres - memoir, fictional narrative, informational report, opinion piece, procedural writing, and poetry - more than fifty hands-on mini-lessons deal with specific skills that will help students write effective fiction and nonfiction.

This insightful resource will help teachers to break down barriers, reach beyond the day-to-day frustrations, and turn even the most reluctant student onto learning. With simple, straightforward strategies to make learning contextualized, inclusive, respectful, and creative, this remarkable guide will help teachers to motivate and inspire those hard-to-reach kids that keep them awake at night.

This practical book draws on the latest research and personal case studies to give principals suggestions for improving leadership -- tackling accountability, respecting diversity, building professional learning communities, working with students and families, and much more.

To teach with excellence can be a challenge. This resource offers specific, practical ideas to help teachers: manage their classroom time efficiently; educate with passion and enthusiasm; support students who are struggling; motivate with creativity and humour; and lead effectively both inside the classroom and out.

This unique guide offers a comprehensive approach to informed classroom assessment, including a discussion about interpreting results, a framework of lessons, and a practical solution for the familiar challenge of time restraints. The book addresses the three fundamental components of successful teaching and learning: asking questions, observing students, and planning well-thought-out lessons.

Stuck debating how best to teach effective grammar in your classroom? This joyful guide offers fun and engaging activities, sentence-combining challenges, examples from professional writing, up-to-date details of the evolution of grammar and language, and much, much more, Grammarama! gives you everything you need to help your students make a lasting connection with language.