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"[This book] combines the maker movement with story retelling and story creation, Reggio-inspired methods, and the importance of play to move all children forward in their literacy learning. The StoryMaking strategy aids in the development of twenty-first century skills and helps children create stories with loose parts, props, and more for an enhanced literacy development experience"--Provided by publisher.

A guide to teaching students how to handle feedback using the children's book "Thanks for the Feedback ... (I think!)," featuring games and activities teachers can use in their K-6 classrooms. Includes CD-ROM.

Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.

A handy and easy-to-implement resource for standardized-test preparation.

A handy and easy-to-implement resource for standardized-test preparation.

"Children's writer and poet Amy Ludwig VanDerwater leads us on an adventure through poetry, pointing out craft elements along the way that students can use to improve all their writing, from idea finding to language play. "Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small," Amy explains. "And, too, poems teach us how to write. Anything." This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher. Each lesson exploration includes three poems, one by a contemporary adult poet and two by students in grades 2 through 8, which serve as models to illustrate how poetry teaches writers to: find ideas, choose perspective and point of view, structure texts, play with language, craft beginnings and endings, [and] choose titles"--Back cover.

Provides an introduction to the Trait Model, and offers assessment tools and eighteen lessons plans designed to help teachers of students in kindergarten through second grade incorporate the traits of ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions into their writing lessons.

"Drawing on . . . picture books that can be used to directly support the new AASL 'National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries,' this . . . toolkit of lessons, worksheets, anchor charts, assessments, and rubrics is specifically designed for school librarians and other educators"--Provided by publisher.

[Presents ideas for teachers on how to create] a passionate reading environment ... Pernille opens up about her own trials and errors as a teacher and what she's learned along the way. She also shares a wide variety of practical tools ... [for teachers] including a reader profile sheet, conferring sheet, classroom library letter to parents [and more]"--Provided by publisher.

"Organized into an easy-to-follow, month-by-month plan for implementation, this book provides field-tested and research-based knowledge that will serve educators as they create and maintain a meaningful Makerspace"--Back cover.