Professional Education Books

Differentiating Instruction

Research-Ready Classroom: Differentiating Instruction Across Content Areas by Mike Anderson. Heineman. 0325009449. $18.95

A start-to-finish guide to managing independent research in your classroom. Here is theoretical information you need to understand how and why independent research works.

Where's the Glitch?: How to Use Running Records with Older Readers grades 5-8 by Mary Shea. Heineman. 0325008493. $21.95.

Identifies why readers stumble and presents strategies designed to get them back on track and reading well using modified running records (MRR)

 

Reading Aloud Across the CurriculumReading Aloud Across the Curriculum: How to Build Bridges in Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies by Lester Laminack and Reba Wadsworth. Heineman. 0325009821. $25.00.

Discover how read aloud instruction can accomplish literacy-based goals in the four key subject areas. Strategic advice is given to plan thematic, content driven units that use read alouds to scaffold understanding and increase engagement.

Literacy Coaching: the Essentials by Katherine Casey. Heineman. 0325009414. $23.95.

A demonstration of how to integrate core instructional elements into successful practices, exploring main coaching models, the roles and responsibilities within them. Examples, correspondences and conversations illustrate what coaching really looks like.

The Kids Behind the Label: An Inside Look at ADHD for Classroom Teachers by Trudy Knowles. Heineman. 0325009678. $19.50.

Students with ADHD relate their daily classroom experiences. Fourteen students from elementary schools to college were interviewed giving vivid descriptions of frustration and making sense of the world. The author assesses the situations and offers practical advice.

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