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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.

How can you help students find meaning in informational texts and become independent strategic readers and thinkers? "Nonfiction Reading Power" gives teachers a wealth of effective strategies for helping students think while they read material in all subject areas. Using the best children's books to motivate students, Adrienne Gear shows teachers how help students zoom-in, question and infer; find the main idea, make connections, and transform what's on the printed page. Key introductory concept lessons for each of the five reading powers provide valuable insight into the purpose of each strategy. The book also explores the particular features of nonfiction and offers lists of key books organized around strategies and subject areas.

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.