language arts

Leila Christenbury shares her philosophy of teaching English language arts at the secondary and middle school level, discussing the reality of life in the classroom; exploring theoretical and practical issues related to teaching literature, language, and writing; and including ideas and anecdotes.

Offers teachers proven strategies for differentiation through innovative instruction that can help gifted, talented, and exceptionally conscientious adolescents make the most of their learning.

A guide to understanding how children develop language from birth through five years that reviews the latest research revealing how much infants, toddlers, and preschoolers know and can express from the early months on.

Provides teachers with strategies, organizers, and scripts that can be used to help children improve their reading and writing skills.

Shows teachers how to ensure that their students read at their grade levels.

Provides an assessment system for districts, schools, and classrooms that uses continuous assessment, timely feedback, and clear goals to follow the progression of learning and includes learning progressions, on-demand writing prompts, student checklists and writing samples, rubrics, and exemplar pieces of writing.

Contains writings that discuss how to inspire and educate young adults with storytelling.

"With its ready-to-use lesson plans, book lists, and included reproducibles, this book is a ... resource for librarians who do structured storytimes for primary school-age children"--Provided by publisher.

A guide for bringing the Common Core State Standards and science, technology, engineering and math together with books easily done in the school library, and then extended into the classroom. Includes unit summaries and related vocabulary.

Contains more than 180 lessons based on published picture books that can be used to help students become better writers.