study and teaching

Describes six traits of good writing in any genre, including ideas, organizations, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and offers advice for teachers on how to assess student writing using the 6 + 1 TRAIT model. Includes scoring guides, sample student papers, and focus lessons and activities.

Explains the role teachers play in small-group instruction and offers practical strategies to help teachers structure better small-group activities in the classroom.

Presents twenty poems and activities designed to help middle school students develop a love for poetry and learn how to understand what they are reading.

Presents activities, strategies, and lesson ideas to help students in preschool through first grade build their writing skills.

Provides teachers with a framework that enhances the existing curriculum and extends it to meet Common Core goals, and includes instructional strategies for reading literature, informational text, and foundational skills.

Provides real authors revision techniques, covering research, brainstorming, planning, strengthening characters, and more, and including tips, tricks, and classroom-ready activities.

A collection of thirty detailed lessons and comprehension strategies for preparing students to become better readers.

Examines how comic books and graphic novels can be worked into traditional elementary school curriculums as resources for improving reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency instruction.

Describes how to organize a successful yearlong writing workshop centered on writing cycles and the writing notebook, and offers instructors activities and suggestions to help them improve their program.

Offers research-based methods and inspiration designed to help teachers establish comprehensive literacy instruction in secondary-level classrooms.