Our Books
Active Learning
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40 Teaching Methods to Engage Students in Every Class and Every Subject
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Whether tweaking your existing strategies or finding new moves to quickly become your own, this is your go-to guide for designing active and engaging learning experiences for students.
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Grades 6-12
By Barry Gilmore & Gravity Goldberg
Read Aloud with Heart
Grades K-2
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Literacy Lessons That Build Community, Comprehension, and Cultural Competency
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Read Alouds with Heart
Grades 3-5
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Literacy Lessons That Build Community, Comprehension, and Cultural Competency
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Use thoughtfully chosen multicultural mentors texts to build classroom community and honor the identities of everyone in your class. Companion mini-lessons offer reading strategies, discussion questions, and carry-over coaching prompts designed to hone students' comprehension skills, including character analysis, determining themes, and exploring perspectives. A must-have resource in every classroom!
Helping students in grades 3–5 become strong, independent readers requires thoughtful planning, active listening, accurate tracking, and personalized follow up.
But, many teachers don’t have the time, the tools, or the experience to plan effective conferring conversations that will allow them to assess students’ individual independent reading development and help them become stronger, joyful readers.
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With the Teacher’s Toolkit for Independent Reading, teachers will have everything they need to prepare, model, track, and manage effective, student-centered conferring sessions with confidence.
Pamela Koutrakos offers tools and ready-to-go resources to help teachers put the inquiry-based structures, lessons, and routines from her first book, Word Study That Sticks, into action. Let students take charge of their learning while you gain time for differentiated instruction, and make word study fun for students!
