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10 Easy Writing Lessons That Get Kids Ready for Writing Assessments
Teach students to write effectively and raise test scores at the same time. Easy, sequential lessons mirror the exercises found on state performance assessments.
Grades 3 – 6
Mary Rose

20 Reading and Writing Centers: Fun Literacy-Building Centers with Ready-to-Use Picture Cards, Word Cards, Templates, Game Boards, and More
Reading specialist Rosalie Franzese shares 20 of her best literacy centers. The fun activities help students practice letter recognition, letter formation, letter-sound correspondence, word recognition, directionality, one-to-one correspondence, and so much more.
Grades PreK – K
Rosalie Franzese

6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades
Why has the 6+1 TRAIT model had such a tremendous impact on writing instruction? Because it works. It allows teachers to pinpoint students' strengths and weaknesses in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and focus instruction. Now Culham turns her expert eye to our youngest students. Like her groundbreaking guide for grades 3 and up, her new book contains scoring guides, sample papers, and focus lessons for each trait, but framed to address K-2 teachers' needs.
Grades K – 2
Ruth Culham

Accelerated Vocabulary Instruction
A comprehensive guide to developing a rich vocabulary that helps children access and understand the core curriculum.
Grades 2 – 6
Nancy Akhavan

Assessment First
"To maximize the impact of your teaching, follow the assess-plan-teach model," teachers are told, yet they receive little support in putting this model into action. Finally, here is an indispensable guide that explains how to make every minute of primary reading instruction count--starting with assessment.
Grades 1 – 5
Kathryn Au; Maria Chang; Deborah White

Beyond Bedtime Stories
A Parent's Guide to Promoting Reading, Writing, and Other Literacy Skills from Birth to 5
Grades PreK – K
V. Susan Bennett-Armistead; Nell K. Duke; Annie Moses

Breakthrough in Beginning Reading and Writing
Drawing on major new insights in brain research, Gentry shows how reading and writing develop in five phases-from operations with no letter knowledge to understanding of phonics chunks- that provide the blueprint for instructional approaches.
Grades PreK – 2
Richard Gentry

Complete 4 for Literacy, The
This book provides an organizational framework, detailed models, lessons and practical support for mapping and building grade-specific curriculum across the school year through four major types of units of study—strategy, process, genre, and conventions—that integrate reading and writing.
Grades K – 5
Pam Allyn

Content-Rich Reading & Writing Workshop, The
By teaching reading and writing through content and by folding rich content into your reading and writing instruction, not only do you create more powerful and exciting learning experiences for your students—helping them learn more—you save time and become a more efficient and effective teacher.
Grades 4 – 8
Nancy Akhavan

Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop
In this book, two seasoned teachers show how to set reading goals, assess students to ensure goals are being met, and carry out instruction. Stressing that there are many ways to determine where students are and just as many ways to determine where to take them, they give teachers the tools to make that journey.
Grades 3 – 6
Franki Sibberson; Karen Szymusiak

Differentiated Literacy Centers
Developing leveled materials and creating an organizational system to manage it all is an immense undertaking. In this comprehensive resource, veteran teacher and staff developer Margo Southall shares management tools along with hundreds of leveled activities that she has fine-tuned over the years.
Grades K – 3
Margo Southall

Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten
Planning Tips, Assessment Tools, Management Strategies, Multi-Leveled Centers, and Activities That Reach and Nurture Every Learner
Grades K – K
Cindy Middendorf

Differentiating Reading Instruction
Differentiated instruction—matching just-right instruction to the needs of each learner—is a powerful and effective way to help all students be successful. In this resource, reading expert, Laura Robb, invites you into her classroom so you can see differentiated reading instruction in action.
Grades 5 – 12
Laura Robb

Easy Assessments for Pre-Kindergarten
A complete toolkit for assessing children's progress in language arts and math.
Grades PreK – Prek
Laurie Fyke

Easy Ways to Reach & Teach English Language Learners
How can we help English Language Learners adapt and adjust to life in the classroom—and thrive? ELL specialist Valerie Schiffer-Dannoff shares her success strategies for including ELLs in meaningful instruction and classroom life right from the start.
Grades K – 5
Valerie Schiffer-Danoff

English Language Learners
Two of the leading experts on English language learning show mainstream teachers in a variety of settings how to support language growth through content areas, organize curriculum around themes, draw on primary language and culture, emphasize meaningful reading and writing, and develop academic language.
Grades K – 12
David Freeman; Yvonne Freeman

English Learners in American Classrooms: 101 Questions, 101 Answers
The book provides a basic but comprehensive introduction that serves as a state-of-the-art guide to the field, using a straightforward Q&A format designed to focus sharply on the major issues, such as the research on effectiveness of various programs, and assessment and accountability for ELLs.
Grades K – 12
James Crawford; Stephen Krashen

Essential Kindergarten Assessments for Reading, Writing, and Math
A complete toolkit for assessing children's progress in language arts and math.
Grades K – K
Laurie Fyke

Exceeding the Standards
You don't need to give up what you know about best practice to address your state's standards! Margaret Moustafa shows you how you can not only meet but exceed the standards by aligning your state standards with such research-proven best practices as the read aloud, shared and guided reading and writing, reading and writing workshop, literature circles, directed reading and thinking activity, language experience, and reader's theater.
Grades K – 5
Margaret Moustafa

Grand Conversations - Updated Edition
This updated edition of a 1990 classic advocates the use of real books in a classroom context that places children's enjoyment and interpretation of literature at the center. New material includes a foreword by Shelley Harwayne and tributes to the book's influence by Stephanie Harvey, Lester Laminack, Frank Serafini, and Mary Glover. Assessment tools included.
Grades 2 – 6
Ralph Peterson; Maryann Eeds

Inside the Writing Traits Classroom
In these exciting lessons, primary students embrace the traits to improve their writing.
Grades K – 2
Ruth Culham

Literacy and the Youngest Learner
Research shows that literacy -- the ability to read, write, listen and speak -- begins developing long before children enter elementary school.
Grades PreK – K
V. Susan Bennett-Armistead; Nell K. Duke; Annie Moses

Literacy Centers in Photographs
This unique resource is packed with full-color photographs to show you how to make your literacy centers the best they can be.
Grades K – 2
Nikki Campo-Stallone

Look Who's Learning to Read
Whether you are a parent, a teacher, a babysitter, a nanny, a daycare worker, or a grandparent, the activities in this book will help you spend joyous moments with the children in your care and help those children learn to read and write as naturally as they have been learning to walk and talk.
Grades PreK – K
Shelly Harwayne

New Essentials for Teaching Reading in PreK-2
Find out why and how to integrate the "new essentials" of reading - comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency - into primary classrooms in this easy-to-navigate, research-based book.
Grades PreK – 2
Anna Lyon; Paula Moore

New Kindergarten: Teaching Reading, Writing & More, The
Come into Connie's kindergarten classroom and learn how to plan literacy-rich learning experiences all year long. This complete resource includes activities to build phonemic awareness and phonics skills, mini-lessons on shared reading and writing, and learning-filled morning messages and meetings.
Grades PreK – K
Constance Leuenberger

Nurturing Knowledge: Building a Foundation for School Success by Linking Early Literacy to Math, Science, Art, and Social Studies
In this practical resource, the authors share five essential early literacy practices and show how and why to apply these so children acquire the knowledge and the skills they need for academic success.
Grades PreK – K
Lisa Lenhart; Susan B. Neuman; Kathleen Roskos; Tanya Wright

Poems for Teaching in the Content Areas
What happens when you pair one of the most vibrant, versatile children's poets with one of the best educators? 75 poems perfectly pitched to the needs of teachers, along with simple unique ideas for maximizing their teaching power before, during, and after learning.
Grades 4 – & Up
Laura Robb; J. Patrick Lewis

Power of Repeated Reading in Small-Group Instruction, The
Deep word knowledge is built over time and through many exposures to a word in varied contexts. In this essential resource, a primary-grade teacher shares her classroom-tested strategies for giving children multiple exposures to words throughout the school day. From starting the day with a “salutation” to exploring the multiple meanings of the word of the day in a morning message to playing “what doesn't belong” during transitions, she shows you how to pack your day with purposeful and engaging activities that will help every child's vocabulary grow.
Grades PreK – 1
Wendie Bramwell; Brooke Graham Doyle

Principal's Guide to Literacy in the Elementary Classroom, The
Many principals are excellent leaders and managers, but feel less confident about their roles as curriculum leaders. This essential guide will help them with the most important area of learning that takes place in a school: literacy. Foreword by Gay Fawcett.
Grades K – 6
Autumn Tooms; Timothy Rasinski; Nancy Padak

Reading and Writing in Kindergarten: A Practical Guide
This practical guide to teaching literacy in kindergarten is based on the premise that "students can manage higher and more specific goals than those of the traditional kindergarten program."
Grades PreK – K
Rosalie Franzese

Ready-to-Use Reading Assessments & Intervention Strategies for K-2
Effective, ready-to-use assessments that enable teachers to track students' progress in literacy easily throughout the year. These research-based assessments measure achievement in four key literacy areas: print conventions, word recognition, comprehension, and writing.
Grades K – 2
Brenda Weaver

Scaffolded Writing Instruction
Fisher and Frey share six research-based strategies that support every developing writer. They present each strategy within a scaffolded framework of lessons that begin with teacher-directed instruction and support students as they learn to use the strategy independently.
Grades 3 – 8
Douglas Fisher; Nancy Frey

Smart Answers to Tough Questions
Provides clear answers to the most frequently asked questions about literacy instruction. Literacy coaches and administrators will also find the book an indispensable resource for professional development workshops, newsletters, and grant applications. A time-saving, comprehensive desktop essential.
Grades K – 8
Elaine Garan

Step-by-Step Assessment Guide to Code Breaking
A classroom-based, child-centered assessment for tracking step-by-step progress in reading, writing, and spelling with reproducible assessment forms. The assessment guide and DVD show you how to easily identify a child's phase of development, set reasonable expectations for growth, and select from the instructional techniques Gentry provides to best help every student become a successful reader and writer.
Grades PreK – 2
Richard Gentry

Strategies for Differentiating in the Content Areas
A master teacher-administrator team show how middle school teachers in ALL subject areas can reach ALL learners. Strayer and Strayer present eight surefire strategies teachers can use to a) provide assignment choices that motivate different kinds of learners and b) teach all students the content they need to know.
Grades 5 – & Up
Beverly Strayer; Troy Strayer

Teacher's Essential Guide Series: Classroom Management
Classroom management is about not only creating an effective classroom environment but reducing teachers’ stress, increasing productivity—for both teachers and students—and ensuring a safe, equitable environment committed to the proposition that all kids can learn and succeed.
Grades 6 – 12
Jim Burke

Teaching English Language Learners
This book provides situations and issues that teachers may encounter when working with ELLs, and offers grade-level appropriate solutions, teaching approaches, and activities to address them. The book is framed around real questions from real teachers in the field and offers strategies related to oral communication, reading, writing, assessment, special need students, and home school issues.
Grades K – 5
Katharine Samway; Dorothy Taylor

Teaching Grammar With Playful Poems for Middle School
Ten reproducible poems that have middle-school appeal are paired with complete lessons to target key grammar concepts—predicate adjectives, direct objects, gerunds, clauses, compound sentences, and more. Nancy Mack's lessons provide a scaffold for students to grasp each concept and then use it skillfully in their own writing.
Grades 6 – 8
Nancy Mack

Teaching Reading: A Differentiated Approach
This 3-ring binder from reading expert Laura Robb is the comprehensive resource for research-based reading instruction. In it, Robb has compiled classroom-tested lessons and strategies that help students activate prior knowledge, monitor comprehension, make inferences, write in response to fiction and nonfiction texts, and so much more.
Grades 4 – 12
Laura Robb

Teaching Smarter With the Brain in Focus
Our brains work best under optimal conditions—we think more creatively, we absorb information quickly, and we produce better work. So how do we create those conditions in a classroom setting to help all of our students achieve? This guide shows teachers how to use simple research-supported strategies in any lesson to improve students' engagement, productivity, and capacity to learn.
Grades 3 – 8

Teaching Students to Write Effective Essays
Carefully developed, classroom-tested lessons that build upon one another, focusing exactly on the kinds of skills kids need to do well on state assessments plus communicate effectively in high school and beyond.
Grades 5 – & Up
Marilyn Pryle

Teaching the Information Generation
Strategies for Helping Primary Readers Understand the Fact-Filled Texts They Encounter Throughout Their School Years
Grades K – 3
Vicki Benson-Castagna

Teaching With Favorite Read-Alouds in Kindergarten
Each grade-perfect resource includes fifty must-have books with lessons and activities that build skills in vocabulary, comprehension, and more!
Grades K – K
Susan Lunsford

Teaching With Favorite Read-Alouds in PreK
Each grade-perfect resource includes fifty must-have books with lessons and activities that build skills in vocabulary, comprehension, and more!
Grades PreK – Prek
Susan Lunsford

Tools for Leaders
For schools working to enhance their organizational capacity to boost student learning, this book provides a framework for collaborative professional development, outlines its principles, and supplies an array of tools.
Grades K – 12
Marjorie Larner

Traits of Writing for the Primary Grades: A Professional Development Series on DVD
This new DVD series takes you inside Kindergarten, first-, and second-grade classrooms as teachers use scoring guides to evaluate children's writing, model each of the 6+1 traits in classroom lessons, and reflect on their students' learning strategies.
Grades K – 2
Ruth Culham

Transforming Literacy Practices in Preschool
When preschool children receive high-quality literacy instruction, it benefits their emotional and cognitive development enormously. But what does "high-quality literacy instruction" look like? In this research-based, yet practical resource, Lea McGee answers this important question.
Grades PreK – Prek
Lea M. McGee

Using Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits: K–2
Good teachers have long recognized the power of using picture books as models of good writing. The short, focused, and tightly woven text mirrors the kind of writing they want their students to be doing. In this essential resource, the authors have organized by trait more than 150 annotations of new and classic books that will delight young students--and inspire powerful writing.
Grades K – 2
Ruth Culham; Raymond Coutu

Why We Teach
Award-winning teacher Linda Alston strives to help educators generate their own joy, passion, creativity, and love of their profession. The readers will find peace and inspiration as Alston helps them realize what a difference their teaching makes for children and their families.
Grades K – 12
Linda Alston