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Scholastic Professional offers a robust selection of titles and professional tools that will help you overcome the challenges that you face in the classroom every day. Our publishing list includes an expansive selection of Teaching Strategy books on a variety of topics including Fluency for struggling learners, positive teacher talk, the craft of writing, and strategies for ELL students.

» Buy Now	Building Oral Language Skills in PreK-K Cindy Middendorf Grades PreK–K Drawing on her 22 years of experience as a kindergarten teacher, Cindy Middendorf has compiled this amazing resource packed with research-based activities, lessons, and strategies to increase students' oral language skills.
» Buy Now	Teaching Writing: Differentiated Instruction With Leveled Graphic Organizers Nancy L. Witherell; Mary C. McMackin Grades 1–3 Help every primary learner build basic writing skills with graphic organizers designed at three levels of challenge. Each of the 15 model lessons in this book is paired with three ready-to-use organizers that support and engage a range of learners and boost their writing skills.
» Buy Now	Teaching Writing in Mixed-Language Classrooms Joanne Yatvin Grades K–5 As classrooms become more and more diverse, teachers are faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of all their students—both English-speaking students and English Language Learners. Teaching writing is especially challenging in these mixed-language classrooms. In this book, a national literacy leader offers a variety of techniques for teaching writing that will motivate all students, while also providing ELLs with the supports they need.
» Buy Now	Expanding Comprehension With Multigenre Text Sets Maria Nichols Grades 2–5 In order to understand a topic deeply, learners must access information from a variety of sources and in many different text genres and media--yet our comprehension instruction often focuses on strategies for understanding single texts in isolation. In this book, a gifted teacher shares a powerful approach she's developed for teaching students to explore a topic using multigenre text sets.
» Buy Now	Teaching Comprehension With Nonfiction Read Alouds Dawn Little Grades 3–6 In this thoughtful new resource, a master teacher shares her framework for presenting powerful read-aloud lessons that teach students the comprehension skills they need to read nonfiction. You'll learn how to plan and present interactive read alouds of newspaper or magazines articles, textbooks, informational books, and lots more.
» Buy Now	Interactive Comprehension Strategies Frank Serafini Grades K–8 One of the hallmarks of an effective reading program is the energetic conversation that surrounds a text students are engaged in reading. Teachers can determine their students' comprehension of the text based on the kinds of questions students ask and the connections they build across text and to their own life stories. In this resource, Frank Serafini shares the strategies that he uses to maximize the effectiveness of these conversations.
» Buy Now	The Teacher's Essential Guide Series: Content Area Reading Jim Burke Grades 6–12 The Teacher's Essential Guide to Content Area Reading leads the reader through Burke's teaching strategies, which draw from a combination of research and Jim's own experience as a public school teacher. He includes invaluable techniques to improve student reading as well as guidelines for explicit comprehension instruction--which strategies to use, when to use them, and how to use them with a variety of texts.
» Buy Now	Writing Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard Lola M. Schaefer Grades 5 & Up These easy, step-by-step lessons show teachers how to use the interactive whiteboard to engage students in learning excellent writing craft techniques with models of strong writing. Expert writing teacher Lola Schaefer covers all the essentials-organizing, setting a strong focus, writing convincing leads, and more!
» Buy Now	First Grade in Photographs Judy Lynch Grade 1 Full-color photographs selected by seasoned first-grade teacher Judy Lynch showcase dozens and dozens of creative, practical ideas, each accompanied by Judy's insightful comments. From arranging furniture and creating storage space to designing teaching areas and making schedules, Judy guides teachers through the creation of a successful classroom environment.
» Buy Now	Using Name Walls to Teach Reading and Writing Janiel Wagstaff Grades K–2 Veteran teacher Janiel Wagstaff shows how to harness the power of children's names to teach key reading and writing skills. ABC Name Walls jumpstart lessons on letter-sound correspondence, identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds, and blending and segmenting sounds.
» Buy Now	Assessments for Differentiating Reading Instruction Laura Robb Grades 4–8 Timely assessments are key to effectively differentiating instruction. This practical resource from reading expert Laura Robb contains more than 50 easy-to-use assessments, including reading strategy checklists, reading interest surveys, tiered task evaluation forms, conference forms, self-evaluations, and more.
» Buy Now	Closing the Achievement Gap Noah Borrero; Shawn Bird Grades 6–12 To meet the instructional needs of the increasingly diverse students in today's middle and high schools, teachers must be more than content area specialists--they must also know how to teach reading. In this practical resource, two teachers share the research-based, classroom-tested techniques they've developed that allow you to teach reading strategies as you teach content.
» Buy Now	Getting Started With the Traits: 3-5 Ruth Culham; Raymond Coutu Grades 3–5 For intermediate-grade teachers who want to weave the traits into their writing program but are unsure where to begin, help has arrived! This book contain just what they need to get started: trait-focused lessons, activities, reproducibles, scoring guides, conference comments, scored sample papers, children's book lists, and teaching tips.
» Buy Now	Getting Started With the Traits: K-2 Ruth Culham; Raymond Coutu Grades K–2 For primary-grade teachers who want to weave the traits into their writing program but are unsure where to begin, help has arrived! This book contain just what they need to get started: trait-focused lessons, activities, reproducibles, scoring guides, conference comments, scored sample papers, children's book lists, and teaching tips.
» Buy Now	Teaching Comprehension With Questioning Strategies That Motivate Middle School Readers Larry Lewin Grades 5 & Up Middle-school literacy expert Larry Lewin shares 12 questioning strategies that boost students' critical thinking and comprehension during and after reading. Easy to integrate into reading assignments in any content-area, these classroom-tested techniques help students engage in a dialogue with the text they're reading, improve their recall and understanding, and build a strong sense of purpose for reading.
» Buy Now	130 FAQs and Practical Answers From Scholastic's Teacher Helpline Ruth Manna Grades K–6 This reassuring resource contains dozens and dozens of frequently asked questions about everyday teaching issues—collected from Scholastic's Teacher Helpline. A mentor teacher answers a broad range of questions with a voice that is equal parts patient colleague, encouraging mom, and enthusiastic cheerleader.
» Buy Now	Literacy-Building Play in Preschool V. Susan Bennett-Armistead Grade Pre-K Whether they're putting on a puppet show, acting out a fairy tale, or running an imaginary restaurant, preschoolers love to play. In fact, they thrive on it. In this full-color, photo-packed book, Bennett-Armistead shows how to harness play's power so children not only have fun, but also learn essential reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills that prepare them for conventional literacy instruction.
» Buy Now	Month-by-Month Trait-Based Writing Instruction Maria P. Walther; Katherine Phillips Grades K–2 In this comprehensive resource, two veteran primary teachers share a multi-faceted approach to teaching writing that seamlessly combines the use of powerful mentor texts, strategy lessons, and the traits—ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
» Buy Now	The Next Step in Guided Reading Jan Richardson Grades K–8 Teachers facing the challenge of meeting the diverse reading needs of students will find the structure and tools they need in Jan Richardson's powerful approach to guided reading. Richardson has identified the essential components of an effective guided reading lesson: targeted assessments, data analysis that pinpoints specific strategies students need, and the use of guided writing to support the reading process.
» Buy Now	Creating the Best Literacy Block Ever Maryann Manning; Deborah Camp; Gayle Morrison Grades K–3 Literacy scholar Maryann Manning together with Nationally Board Certified teachers Deborah Camp and Gayle Morrison bring new energy, efficiency, and effectiveness into the 60-90-minute literacy block with a flexible 3-part framework that supports intentional teaching, peer interactions, and independent engagement. The authors provide an in-depth explanation of the framework and devote separate chapters to showing what a literacy block looks like at each grade level, K–3.
» Buy Now	Differentiated Small-Group Reading Lessons Margo Southall Grades K–3 In this highly practical, research-based resource, veteran teacher Margo Southall demonstrates how to form groups based on students' reading goals instead of their reading levels, allowing teachers to target instruction based on specific needs. She includes “When/Then” charts that describe common student difficulties and links them to the appropriate lesson.
» Buy Now	RTI: Assessments & Remediation for K-2 Dr. Brenda M. Weaver Grades K–2 Reading expert Brenda M. Weaver has developed an assessment system that enables teachers to screen students and monitor their progress in reading and writing all year long. Perfect for fulfilling the requirements of RTI (Response to Intervention), the ready-to-go assessments help teachers identify students who are making adequate progress, those who need extra support, and those who need intense intervention.
» Buy Now	Every Child a Reader Helene Coffin Grades K-2 In her classroom, Coffin has found that integrating reading instruction and poetry maximizes every kindergartner's opportunity to succeed at decoding and comprehending text. The strong rhythms, the rhyming patterns, the repetition of words and phrases, the enticing sounds of language, and the small, fresh, meaningful stories engage her students.
» Buy Now	Writing Above Standard Debbie Lera Grades K-5 Harness the power of a writing workshop that relies upon a standards-based foundation while still embracing active learning and student inquiry. Teachers benefit from the structure provided by the standards and, at the same time, enjoy flexibility that enables them to respond to the unique needs and interests of their students.
» Buy Now	100 Writing Lessons: Narrative • Descriptive • Expository • Persuasive Tara McCarthy Grades 4-8 Dip into this vast collection of quick writing lessons and activities to find exactly what you need-whether it's a lesson on using exact words, writing an essay, developing a plot, or organizing a report. You'll find dozens of ideas for teaching students the persuasive, narrative, descriptive, and expository writing skills they need.
» Buy Now	Teaching Reading: Differentiated Instruction With Leveled Graphic Organizers Nancy L. Witherell and Mary C. McMackin Grades 1-3 Help every primary reader build comprehension skills with graphic organizers designed at three levels of challenge. Each of the 15 model lessons in this book is paired with three ready-to-use organizers that support a range of learners.
» Buy Now	Teaching Vocabulary: Differentiated Instruction With Leveled Graphic Organizers Nancy L. Witherell and Mary C. McMackin Grades 1-3 Help every primary learner build a strong vocabulary with graphic organizers designed at three levels of challenge. Each of the 15 model lessons in this book is paired with three ready-to-use student pages that support a range of learners.
» Buy Now	Trait-Based Writing: Lessons and Activities Kristina Smekens Grade 4-6 Whether you're just getting started with the traits or want to invigorate your trait-based writing instruction, the 20 fun and engaging lessons in this resource are just what you need. Classroom-tested, ready-to-go lessons for all the traits-ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions-are included.
» Buy Now	The Scholastic Differentiated Instruction Plan Book Cindy Middendorf Grades 1-6 This 40-week planner, complete with interior storage pocket, is chockfull of resources to help teachers streamline and focus differentiated instruction. Includes CD with customize-and-print planning grids, lesson templates, and other tools to streamline planning and save time.
» Buy Now	Interactive Think-Aloud Lessons Lori Oczus Grades K-5 In Interactive Think-Aloud Lessons, you will find a wealth of exciting classroom-tested lessons that will aid you in teaching the comprehension strategies—connect, predict/infer, question, summarize, monitor/clarify, and evaluate—through a variety of modalities.
» Buy Now	25 Quick Formative Assessments for a Differentiated Classroom Judith Dodge Grades 3-8 This collection of quick, flexible, informal assessments helps teachers take a snapshot of student learning-at any time during a lesson or unit of study, in any curriculum area. Students' responses give teachers a clear picture of what students know and what they need help with, what material to reteach or extend, and how to pace instruction.
» Buy Now	Punctuation Tales Liza Charlesworth Grades 2-5 Mastering tricky mechanics is a snap with these humorous storybooks that teach kids everything they need to know about capitalization, exclamation points, question marks, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, abbreviations, and more!
» Buy Now	Tapping the Potential of Parents Patricia A. Edwards Grades K-6 This breakthrough book features concrete strategies that foster strong family-school partnerships which, in turn, help guarantee student success. The strategies, which enable teachers to interact with diverse families, include class and school demographic profiles, parenting contracts, parent vision statements, and parent informant literacy groups.
» Buy Now	The Bully Solution: A Parent's Guide Carol McMullen Grades K-6 Bullying is one of the toughest issues children face growing up. This guide—written just for parents— gives families a strategic approach to solving all kinds of bullying problems, both in and out of school. Parents will find McMullen's book accessible and filled with dozens of practical resources.
» Buy Now	Unwrapping the Read Aloud Lester L. Laminack Grades K-5 With this book and DVD, Laminack invites you to join him in an effort to reclaim the read aloud for students as one of the most potent instructional moments of the school day. To get the most from our read alouds and make every aspect of reading aloud intentional, he believes that we must be as thoughtful in our planning for the read aloud as we are when selecting manipulatives for mathematics.
» Buy Now	Teacher's Essential Guide Series: Content Area Writing Jim Burke Grades 6-12 The Teacher's Essential Guide to Content Area Writing leads the reader through Burke's teaching strategies, which draw from a combination of research and Jim's own experience as a public school teacher. He includes invaluable techniques to improve student writing as well as strategies to simply prompt students to write. Burke features several of his students' writing samples enabling the reader to review the outcome of his instructional techniques. .
» Buy Now	Interactive Think-Aloud Lessons Lori Oczus Grades K-5 In Interactive Think-Aloud Lessons, you will find a wealth of exciting classroom-tested lessons that will aid you in teaching the comprehension strategies—connect, predict/infer, question, summarize, monitor/clarify, and evaluate—through a variety of modalities.
» Buy Now	Reading Strategy Lessons for Science & Social Studies Laura Robb Grades K-5 Mentor teacher and reading expert, Laura Robb, shares 15 practical, research-based lessons that teachers can use to help kids navigate the special demands of the text they encounter in science and social studies classes. Strategy lessons include building background knowledge, asking questions, visualizing, building vocabulary, synthesizing information, and much more. Includes management tips and student samples.
» Buy Now	Teacher's Essential Guide Series: Content Area Writing Jim Burke Grades 6-12 The Teacher's Essential Guide to Content Area Writing leads the reader through Burke's teaching strategies, which draw from a combination of research and Jim's own experience as a public school teacher. He includes invaluable techniques to improve student writing as well as strategies to simply prompt students to write. Burke features several of his students' writing samples enabling the reader to review the outcome of his instructional techniques. .
» Buy Now	Writing Lessons for the Overhead: Responding to Literature Lola M. Schaefer Grade 3-6 A master writing teacher shares step-by-step lessons that guide students to analyze and respond thoughtfully to characters, conflict, theme, and other key elements of the literature they read. Schaefer provides 20 strong writing samples on transparencies for the overhead to help teachers model how to write convincing responses.
» Buy Now	Teaching Teens and Reaping Results in a Wi-Fi, Hip-Hop, Where-Has-All-the-Sanity-Gone World Alan Sitomer Grades 6-12 How do you prepare teens for the world filled with jobs, technologies, and challenges that don't even yet exist? Take a pull-no-punches, inspirational trip inside the classroom of Three-Time Teacher of the Year award winner and celebrated young adult novelist Alan Lawrence Sitomer.
» Buy Now	Daily Trait Warm-Ups Ruth Culham Grades 3 & Up The most daunting tasks of writing—revision and editing—just became easier and more manageable with the publication of this book. Ruth Culham targets specific skills with short, powerful activities that help students gain independence and confidence as they revise their work for ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency, and edit it for conventions.
» Buy Now	Differentiating Assessment in the Reading Workshop Karin Ma; Nicole Taylor Grades K-2 This resource is for teachers who need fast, efficient ongoing assessment to reach all of their primary readers. The authors provide strategies for streamlining conferences, pinpointing students' strengths and needs, and teaching to help students meet grade-level language arts goals. CD included.
» Buy Now	Differentiating Assessment in the Writing Workshop Karin Ma; Nicole Taylor Grades K-2 This resource is for teachers who need fast, efficient ongoing assessment to reach all of their primary writers. The authors provide strategies for streamlining conferences, pinpointing students' strengths and needs, and teaching to help students meet grade-level language arts goals. CD included.
» Buy Now	Purposeful Conferences—Powerful Writing! Marilyn Bogusch Pryle Grades 5 & Up In this friendly guide, veteran teacher Marilyn Pryle shows how to give focused and effective feedback during writing conferences. She annotates dozens of conferences transcripts, demonstrating how to select a teaching point for a conference, validate students' efforts, motivate them to revise, and build their confidence as writers.
» Buy Now	Side-by-Side Learning Karen Smith; Carole Edelsky; Christian Faltis Grades 3-6 Hands-on, project-based learning enhances literacy and language of both English learners and English speakers as they work side by side—even within mandated programs. Book provides research-supported guidelines and strategies, with the DVD showing learners in action within two elementary classrooms where teachers support and stretch students' oral and written English and build content knowledge at the same time.
» Buy Now	Teaching Literary Elements With Picture Books Susan Van Zile; Mary Napoli Grades 4-8 Two master teachers share 15 ready-to-use lessons for using engaging picture books to teach literary elements such as point of view, voice, irony, theme, metaphor, simile, and more. For each literary element, you'll find a clear definition; a detailed picture book-based lesson that incorporates before-, during-, and after-reading strategies; and writing and extension activities.