Explicit instruction is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented—and has been shown to promote achievement for all students. This highly practical and accessible resource gives special and general education teachers the tools to implement explicit instruction in any grade level or content area. The authors are leading experts who ......
The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
Presents ways to assess children's strengths and weaknesses. This book offers guidance on day-to-day issues like following instructions in the classroom, doing homework, completing chores, reducing performance anxiety, and staying cool under pressure.
Since its publication in 2000, Speech to Print has become one of the most popular, highly regarded, and influential textbooks available on literacy instruction. In this third edition, Louisa Cook Moats explains why effective language arts instruction must be informed by a deep understanding of spoken and written English.
This practical K–12 teacher resource explains the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of using Questioning the Author (QtA), a powerful approach for enhancing reading comprehension and engagement.
The Learning Power Approach to high school teaching
Guy Claxton and Graham Powell's Powering Up Students details the small tweaks to daily practice that will help secondary school teachers attend more closely to the ways in which they can boost their students' learning dispositions and attitudes.
The Learning Power Approach (LPA) is a pedagogical formula ......
The LPA is a pedagogical formula which aims to develop all children as confident and capable learners - ready, willing, and able to choose, design, research, pursue, troubleshoot, and evaluate learning for themselves, alone and with others, in school and out. This approach therefore ......
Offers a framework to help educators understand reading comprehension and provide high-quality, evidence-based comprehension instruction in their classroom.
Teaching at sentence level is essential to improve writing. Knowing this, I desperately searched for a book packed full of sentence models that I could use to inspire my students. On discovering that no such book existed, I spent the next year poring over hundreds and hundreds of books to tap into the magic formula of what makes a great sentence.
