"What works?" As teachers, it's a question we often ask ourselves about teaching writing. We consider questions such as how can the writing process, including prewriting, product goals, and inquiry, become more meaningful for students? What is the best way to use models in the classroom? What can targeted strategies, word processing, or collaboration do for students' writing? How can writing-to-learn develop students' overall writing skills? How can sentence combining and summarizing benefit writing? Through teacher-friendly language and classroom examples, Deborah Dean helps answer these kinds of questions by taking a close look at research-based practices that have proved to be effective and interpreting the principles behind them. Based on the Carnegie Institute's influential Writing Next report, _What Works in Writing Instruction_ will help teachers apply the findings to their unique classroom environments. We all must find the right mix of activities for our own students, and this book offers the best of what is currently known about effective writing instruction to help students improve their writing abilities.

What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices

Deborah Dean

National Council of Teachers o

The algebraic notation we use today allows for the compact representation of complex calculations and problems, however, that compactness can be a barrier to sense making. Teachers must help students reason through this barrier. Reasoning about and making sense of algebra are essential to students future success. This book examines the five key elements (meaningful use of symbols, mindful manipulation, reasoned solving, connection algebra with geometry, and linking expressions and functions) identified in Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in more detail and elaborates on the associated reasoning habits. This volume is one of a series of books that support NCTM s Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making by providing additional guidance for making reasoning and sense making part of the mathematics experiences of all high school students every day.

Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in Algebra

Science & Math

Karen Graham

Mathematics

Explore successful models of intervention. No Child Left Behind has set the high expectation that every child meet grade level expectations. This publication synthesizes the research on intervention programs and best practices related to mathematical instructional pedagogy and differentiation to assist teachers, schools, and school districts in improving the manner in which they serve children with challenges in mathematics. BONUS: Includes Professional Development Facilitator's Guide.

Models of Intervention in Mathematics: Reweaving the Tapestry

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

CATHERINE TWOMEY FOSNOT

Crafts & Hobbies

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