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Bright ideas, great designs, and exciting presentations for stories, reports, and other school projects. The easy, step-by-step instructions and illustrations will help kids decide whether to turn a book report into a poster, a geography project into a pyramid, or make a science presentation that's the best pop-up in the class.

The fascinating history of postcards and creative how-tos for using old postcards and making new ones. Kids will learn how to make their own postcards, folding postcards, and postcard albums, as well as how to create codes, send secret messages, and use unusual visual techniques. Ideal for highly motivated students as well as those who will be thrilled by a ""short"" assignment.

This is a practical and helpful book for children facing one of life's great challenges: making a formal speech.

Provides a comprehensive approach to using role play and discussion to build language experiences that are meaningful for learners. It explores issues around storytelling, silent speech, writing and imagination and shows teachers how to be effective observers and support the deeper meaning that comes from working inside and outside the text.

Provides a comprehensive look at literacy and learning that includes reading, writing, oral communication, and digital literacy. This timely book shows teachers how to fit balanced literacy into a daily 100-minute literacy block using a framework of whole-class instruction and writing sessions, combined with independent work.

This timely book presents straightforward analysis and practical guidance on confronting bullying, taming the digital universe, and changing the troublesome trend in students' entitled attitudes toward learning and marks.It introduces three simple principles teachers can use to prioritise their approach to any teaching task.

Offers teachers a richly textured picture of the world of middle-school students. It describes who these students are, explains why fostering their voice is important, and discusses the creation of a community of literacy partners. It addresses topics related to technology, reading, writing, research, use of the arts, community, and assessment. It focuses on such important issues as recognising the impact of social media; the effect of the internet on research; the need for critical literacy; and the potential of the school library.

This practical and thoughtful resource is a follow up to the ground-breaking Reading Power books, which feature simple strategies for helping students focus on their "thinking" while they read. Using five thinking strategies - Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform - young writers will learn how to engage their readers' thinking through their writing.

The play-based learning and individualised strategies in this practical book build on the wide range of literacy skills present in the kindergarten classroom. This valuable resource explores simple ways to use traditional learning centres to provide children with real and authentic reasons to listen, speak, read, write, and view. Teachers will find a wealth of resources for creating meaningful learning experiences.

Create meaningful and unique learning opportunities with this comprehensive outline of improvisation and interpretation strategies that are easily incorporated into classroom instruction. This practical and useful book offers a host of sources for dramatic activity that include scripts, monologues, poetry, novel excerpts, and technology.

A deeper way of looking at picture books as tools for learning, this handy flip book describes how experiencing and responding to picture books can lead readers to new understandings, new learnings, and new wonderings. The book includes tips, charts, graphic organizers, and activities for use in the classroom or independently.

How can you help students find meaning in informational texts and become independent strategic readers and thinkers? "Nonfiction Reading Power" gives teachers a wealth of effective strategies for helping students think while they read material in all subject areas. Using the best children's books to motivate students, Adrienne Gear shows teachers how help students zoom-in, question and infer; find the main idea, make connections, and transform what's on the printed page. Key introductory concept lessons for each of the five reading powers provide valuable insight into the purpose of each strategy. The book also explores the particular features of nonfiction and offers lists of key books organized around strategies and subject areas.

Questions that students care about are crucial to successful learning. Q-Tasks was instrumental in showing teachers how to empower students to develop their own questions and build their critical thinking and inquiry skills. In this new, totally revised edition, the book also addresses how teachers can use the power of technology to promote collaboration among students.

This lively new book introduces the power of the storyboard in the creative process — from brainstorming ideas to developing, revising, and finalizing stories. It describes an eight-stage process that shows, step-by-step, how students can create unique, action-filled pages for their stories and books. Planning suggestions, glossaries of visual terms, and ready-to-copy storyboards are all a part of the active process described.

Conquering the Crowded Curriculum builds on the four principles of identity, imagination, innovation, and integration that together form a framework that connects the curriculum by using one subject to enrich others.

An ideal review for teachers, this innovative flip book shows students how to identify their learning style as they build important information literacy skills.

More than band-aid solutions that focus on discrete skills that don't transfer to real reading, this insightful book shows teachers how to give struggling readers what they really need: the opportunity to read texts they can and want to read; explicit instruction in long-term strategies they can use on their own; confidence in themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers.

A simple, balanced approach to writing workshops in grades 3-9. Organized around six main writing genres - memoir, fictional narrative, informational report, opinion piece, procedural writing, and poetry - more than fifty hands-on mini-lessons deal with specific skills that will help students write effective fiction and nonfiction.

This insightful resource will help teachers to break down barriers, reach beyond the day-to-day frustrations, and turn even the most reluctant student onto learning. With simple, straightforward strategies to make learning contextualized, inclusive, respectful, and creative, this remarkable guide will help teachers to motivate and inspire those hard-to-reach kids that keep them awake at night.

This practical book draws on the latest research and personal case studies to give principals suggestions for improving leadership -- tackling accountability, respecting diversity, building professional learning communities, working with students and families, and much more.

To teach with excellence can be a challenge. This resource offers specific, practical ideas to help teachers: manage their classroom time efficiently; educate with passion and enthusiasm; support students who are struggling; motivate with creativity and humour; and lead effectively both inside the classroom and out.