Harvey Daniels' Literature Circles introduced tens of thousands of teachers to the power of student-led book discussions. Nancy Steineke's Reading and Writing Together showed how a teacher can nurture friendship and collaboration among young readers. Now, Daniels and Steineke team up to focus on one crucial element of the Literature Circle model; the short, teacher-directed lessons that begin, guide and follow-up every successful book club meeting. Mini-lessons are the secret to book clubs that click. Each of these forty-five short, focused, and practical lessons includes Nancy and Harvey's actual classroom language and is formatted to help busy teachers with point-by-point answers to the questions they most frequently ask. How can I: <ul>
<li>steer my students toward deeper comprehension?</li> <li>get kids interested in each others' ideas?</li> <li>make sure kids choose just-right books?</li> <li>help students schedule their reading and meeting time?</li> <li>deal with kids who don't do the reading?</li> <li>get kids to pay more attention to literary style and structure?</li> <li>help special education and ELL students to participate actively in book clubs?</li> <li>get kids to expand their repertoire of reading strategies?</li> <li>make sure groups are on-task when I'm not looking over their shoulder?</li> <li>introduce writing tools (including role sheets) that support student discussion?.</li> <li>help shy or dominating members get the right amount of "airtime?"</li> <li>give grades for book clubs without ruining the fun?</li> <li>use scientific research to justify the classroom time I spend on literature circles?</li> </ul>
Each mini-lesson spells out everything from the time and materials needed to word-by-word instructions for students. The authors even warn "what could go wrong," helping teachers to avoid predictable management problems. With abundant student examples, reproducible forms, photographs of kids in action, and recommended reading lists, Mini-lessons for Literature Circles helps you deepen student book discussions, create lifelong readers, and build a respectful classroom community.

Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles

Daniels, Harvey "Smokey"

Steineke, Nancy

Literature & Fiction

Heinemann

There are three truths about teaching writing, one that's widely known, one that isn't, and one that will change your teaching forever: 
<ul>
<li>the ability to write is essential for students in every subject area</li> <li>writing is the most powerful and efficient tool that teachers have for helping students connect with content and deepen their understanding of it</li> <li>every teacher, including you, is ready to coach middle and secondary writers successfully right now.</li> </ul> No matter what subject you teach, Content-Area Writing is for you, especially if you're juggling broad curriculum mandates, thick textbooks, and severe time constraints. It not only shows that incorporating carefully structured writing activities into your lessons actually increases understanding and achievement, but also proves how writing can save, not consume, valuable instructional time. Following up on Subjects Matter - the book that changed how tens of thousands of language arts, math, science, and social studies teachers use reading in their classrooms - Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, and Nancy Steineke now present the most thorough and practical exploration available of writing in the subject areas. Content-Area Writing guides you strategically through the two major types of writing that every student must know: <ul>
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Writing to Learn: the quick, exploratory, and extemporaneous in-class writing that helps kids engage deeply with content, build connections, and retain what they've learned</li> <li>
Public Writing: planned, constructed, and polished writing in which students demonstrate knowledge and reflect on what they've learned.</li> </ul> With their contagious combination of humor, irreverence, and classroom smarts, Daniels, Zemelman, and Steineke give you dozens of valuable lessons for encouraging growth in both types of writing with subject-specific ideas for planning, organizing, and teaching, as well as samples of student work and guidelines for evaluation and assessment. They also include detailed information on how their strategies fit into the writing process, how they can be used in writing workshops across the curriculum, and how they prepare students for testing and other on-demand writing situations. With writing, you can help students learn better, retain more, meet content- and skills-based standards, and tackle any test with confidence. No matter what you teach, read Content-Area Writing and discover for yourself that classroom time spent writing is classroom time well spent.

Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide

Business & Money

Zemelman, Steven

Education & Reference

In small groups, we are smarter. In well-structured groups, we leverage each other's thinking. We learn more not just because we all bring different pieces of the puzzle, but because, through talk, we can actually make new and better meaning together. -Stephanie Harvey and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels Read the Viewer's Guide. This much-anticipated DVD companion to Stephanie Harvey and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels' best-selling book, Comprehension &amp; Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action, uses compelling video footage to show inquiry circles in action in primary and intermediate classrooms. This live-from-the-classroom DVD invites you to eavesdrop as student-led teams pose questions, undertake research, read strategically, build knowledge, understand, and act. You will see teachers teaching students the specific comprehension and collaboration strategies they need to operate effectively in structured, responsible teams. And, you'll hear firsthand from teachers in primary and intermediate classrooms who are teaching the curriculum, addressing kids' needs, and meeting the standards in a progressive, student-centered way. With a special emphasis on how to organize and manage well-structured cross-curricular projects, this instructional DVD shows you how to: <ul>
<li>engage students as you unleash their curiosity across the curriculum </li> <li>teach your curriculum and meet standards the inquiry way. </li> </ul>
Let Steph and Smokey guide you through classrooms that burst with energy, excitement, and achievement. Watch as kids embrace responsibility and take on the heavy lifting of learning. The Inquiry Circles in Elementary Classrooms DVD is a professional development resource for teachers in grades K-5. Teachers in grades 6-12 should use the companion DVD Inquiry Circles in Middle and High School Classrooms.

Inquiry Circles in Elementary Classrooms (DVD): New Strategies for Comprehension and Collaboration

Education & Teaching

Harvey, Stéphanie

Schools & Teaching

In small groups, we are smarter. In well-structured groups, we leverage each other's thinking. We learn more not just because we all bring different pieces of the puzzle, but because, through talk, we can actually make new and better meaning together.  -Stephanie Harvey and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels  Watch a video overview. Read the Viewer's Guide.  This much-anticipated DVD companion to Stephanie Harvey and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels' best-selling book, Comprehension & Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action, uses compelling video footage to show inquiry circles in action in middle and high school classrooms.  This live-from-the-classroom DVD invites you to eavesdrop as student-led teams pose questions, undertake research, read strategically, build knowledge, understand, and act. You will see teachers teaching students the specific comprehension and collaboration strategies they need to operate effectively in four different kinds of structured, responsible teams. And, you'll hear firsthand from teachers in grades 6 through 12 who are teaching the curriculum, addressing kids' needs, and meeting the standards in a progressive, student-centered way.  With a special emphasis on how to organize and manage well-structured cross-curricular projects, this instructional DVD shows you how to:   engage students as you unleash their curiosity across the curriculum  teach your curriculum and meet standards the inquiry way.   Let Steph and Smokey guide you through classrooms that burst with energy, excitement, and achievement. Watch as kids embrace responsibility and take on the heavy lifting of learning. The Inquiry Circles in Middle and High School Classrooms DVD is a professional development resource for teachers in grades 6-12.Teachers in grades K-5 should use the companion DVD Inquiry Circles in Elementary Classrooms.

Inquiry Circles in Middle and High School Classrooms (DVD): New Strategies for Comprehension and Collaboration (Comprehension Toolkit)

"To have any hope of kids investing fully in the subject matter, we have to start by evoking their curiosity and get them interested in the topic. Engaging the students can't wait. If we wait for the fun stuff that might pop up later, the kids will have already jumped ship." -Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke Today we're all expected to be "teachers of reading"-no matter what our subject area. With Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke support content-area and language-arts teachers alike by pairing more than 75 short, kid-tested reproducible nonfiction texts with 33 simple, ready-to-go lessons that deepen comprehension and support effective collaboration. In the same teacher-friendly, classroom-wise voices that made Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing bestsellers, Daniels and Steineke prove that with the right materials and the right lessons, you can turn your kids into much better readers in your subject field by showing: <ul>
<li>how proficient readers think </li> <li>how skillful collaborators act </li> <li>how to use quick and engaging activities that add to, not steal from subject-matter learning. </li> </ul>
Each real-world text was chosen for its subject-area relevance, its interest to teens, and for its "wow factor"-the texts most likely to engage kids in discussion and debate. Step-by-step lessons accompany each text, including: <ul>
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23 Strategy Lessons that focus closely on at least one key comprehension strategy or collaboration skill that proficient learners use, and address the Common Core Standards for ELA </li> <li>
10 Text Set Lessons that directly align to commonly taught curricular topics and offer a deeper, longer engagement in the subjects and strategies at hand. </li> </ul>
Watch what happens when you give your kids a combination of interesting texts, instruction in smart-reader strategies, and an explicit understanding of good discussion skills. Meeting the standards has never been so much fun. Better Together! Used together, Texts and Lessons for Teaching Literature and Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading give you all the lesson ideas you need for all text types. Save 15% when you buy them together in a Texts and Lessons Bundle.

Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading: With More Than 75 Articles from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washingto n Post, Car and Driv

Reference

"The real genius of this book is that it is written by teachers, for teachers. All of the authors in this book know what classrooms are like. This means that authenticity and integrity pervade every chapter in the book. Teachers will immediately sense this authenticity on their way to realizing that the book offers an endless supply of useful suggestions." -From the Coda by P. David Pearson For those of us who teach comprehension strategies, Comprehension Going Forward is as near to the ultimate PD experience as we can get. Imagine a professional learning community where you could sit in as... <ul>
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Ellin Keene and Debbie Miller swap best practices </li> <li>
Stephanie Harvey and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels compare instruction across the grades </li> <li>
Anne Goudvis and Tanny McGregor share ways to infuse comprehension into every subject area </li> <li>
Cris Tovani and Nancy Commins apply the strategies to help struggling readers, English learners, and special-needs students. </li> </ul>
 In Comprehension Going Forward, you'll meet up with 17 leading practitioners and researchers for an energetic, personal, and frequently irreverent conversation on what great comprehension instruction looks like, what an amazing range of applications it has for all students, and what we can do better. Not only do figures such as Susan Zimmerman and P. David Pearson include their own chapters, but, like any exciting conversation, they point out their favorite parts of one another's chapters-highlighting discussion topics for teacher study groups along the way. Read Comprehension Going Forward and RSVP to a get-together that no one who teaches reading will want to miss. Enter this powerful, lively conversation about how we can improve all readers' comprehension today and join some of your favorite authors as they reach for a tomorrow where every child reads with deep understanding. "Each author takes the comprehension strategies as a starting point, and then reaches out toward a different set of applications, extensions, and practices. But everyone is connected by the research base on comprehension instruction and by our common goal: to provide every child in America with an "All-Access Pass" to literacy." -From the editor's introduction by Harvey "Smokey" Daniels

Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What's Next

Keene, Ellin Oliver

Bennett, Samantha

Miller, Debbie

Goudvis, Anne

Tovani, Cris

Zimmermann, Susan

Hutchins, Chryse

Pearson, P. David

Buhrow, Brad

McGregor, Tanny

Cervetti, Gina

Blauman, Leslie

Larner, Marjorie

Upczak Garcia, Anne

Commins, Nancy L.

"The single most powerful variable in student achievement is the quality of teaching. But what does quality mean? What does it look like in real classrooms? It looks like the teaching in this book." -Steven Zemelman, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, and Arthur Hyde Best Practice is back, and with it Steve Zemelman, Smokey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde invite you to greet today's most important educational challenges with proven, state-of-the-art teaching. Linguistic diversity, technology, Common Core, high-stakes testing-no matter the hurdle, Best Practice teaching supports powerful learning across our profession. Best Practice, Fourth Edition, is the ultimate guide to teaching excellence. Its framework of seven Best Practice Structures and cutting-edge implementation strategies are proven across the grades and subject areas. BP4 creates common ground for teachers, leaders, and principals by recommending practices drawn from the latest scientific research, professional consensus, and the innovative classrooms of exemplary teachers. BP4 puts top-quality teaching at the fingertips of individual practitioners by sharing real-life instructional scenes that define classroom excellence, increase learning, and improve students' life opportunities. It's also more valuable than ever to PLCs and school reform initiatives thanks to: <ul>
<li>plans and strategies for exceeding state and Common Core Standards</li> <li>cohesive principles and common language that strengthen professional collaboration</li> <li>classroom vignettes that show teachers and kids at work</li> <li>chapters on reading, writing, math, science, and social studies that support unified instructional goals</li> <li>special attention to technology in the classroom, special education, ELLs, struggling readers, and the arts.</li> </ul>
This new educational era demands highly-effective, high-quality instruction that makes a difference for students. Fortunately with Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde's help every educator can be a world-class, life-changing teacher-a Best Practice teacher.

Best Practice, Fourth Edition: Bringing Standards to Life in America's Classrooms

Hyde, Arthur

"The experiences provided in these 37 lessons parallel the readings and tasks recommended by the Common Core State Standards. The main difference is that our lessons put student curiosity and engagement first." -Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke In this highly anticipated follow-up to Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke share their powerful strategies for engaging students in challenging, meaningful reading of fiction and poetry using some of their favorite short, fresh texts-or, as they put it, "full-strength adult literature that gives us English majors a run for our interpretive money- but is still intriguing enough to keep teen readers digging and thinking." Use the 37 innovative, step-by-step, common-core-correlated lessons with the reproducible texts provided, with selections from your literature textbook, or with your own best-loved texts to teach close reading skills and deep comprehension strategies. Give students opportunities to read and synthesize across texts with the 8 thematic text set lessons provided, or use the model unit outlines for using the lessons with The Giver, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Great Gatsby as springboards for planning your own novel studies. Better Together! Used together, Texts and Lessons for Teaching Literature and Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading give you all the lesson ideas you need for all text types. Save 15% when you buy them together in a Texts and Lessons Bundle.

Texts and Lessons for Teaching Literature: with 65 fresh mentor texts from Dave Eggers, Nikki Giovanni, Pat Conroy, Jesus C olon, Tim O'Brien, J

Visit Best Practice classrooms without leaving your school "In Best Practice, we outline the key qualities of great teaching in each major subject area. But showing is always better, right? Hence, these video windows into Best Practice classrooms at work." Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Steven Zemelman What do great teaching and powerful learning look like, sound like, and feel like? Seeing the work in action makes all the difference in understanding how to make it your own. The Best Practice Video Companion takes you into exemplary classrooms where the seven structures for top-quality teaching described in Best Practice support effective instruction and deeper learning every day. Steven Zemelman and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels show us that the seven structures work in any context by visiting classrooms across the grades and content areas. You'll see the moves and hear the language of Best Practice teachers as they help students with a wide range of abilities become engaged, insightful learners. An ideal professional development support for groups studying Best Practice, Fourth Edition, The Best Practice Video Companion: <ul>
<li>shares more than 40 glimpses into multiple lessons in 17 outstanding classrooms</li> <li>focuses on the seven research-based Best Practice structures</li> <li>offers two ways to watch-by Best Practice structure or by teacher</li> <li>suggests ways to collaborate before, during, and after viewings.</li> </ul>
While the Common Core and other standards outline what children are expected to learn, they don't really explain how to get them there. Use The Best Practice Video Companion and see the how for yourself. Save $ and create powerhouse PD with on a Staff Development Bundle that combines 10 copies of Best Practice with the Best Practice Video Companion.

Best Practice Video Companion: Watching the Seven Structures That Create Exemplary Classrooms

"It's easy to feel hopeless in the face of statistics indicating that students with disabilities have fewer educational successes and greater quality-of-life issues than their classmates without disabilities. Yet every week I meet students, teachers, and families who transcend these statistics and are making exciting educational progress, from disability to possibility. This book takes this concept a step further, from possibility to success!" -Patrick Schwarz In From Disability to Possibility, Patrick Schwarz made a passionate and compelling argument for the inclusive classroom. From Possibility to Success takes Patrick's case to the next level by providing teachers with powerful new tools to make inclusive education work, along with guidelines for incorporating them into classroom practice. With the goal of building lifelong skills, Patrick offers templates and authentic forms that help you plan lessons and units while at the same time embracing students' interests and passions, working toward students' dreams, promoting leadership, self-advocacy, self-determination, and membership in both school and the community. With an explicit overview of each tool, a rationale for using them, and compelling stories of how they have helped real students in real classrooms, Patrick empowers educators to combine the science and art of teaching all learners. Try them out and discover hope, direction, and inspiration to turn possibility into success.

From Possibility to Success: Achieving Positive Student Outcomes in Inclusive Classrooms

Schwarz, Patrick

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