Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions, Grades K-8
“These assessment tools make progress in writing as transparent, concrete, and obtainable as possible and put ownership for this progress into the hands of learners, allowing students and teachers to work toward a very clear image of what good writing entails.” -Lucy Calkins, Writing Pathways Lucy Calkins’ groundbreaking performance assessments offer instructional tools to support …
Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies
Visit www.heinemann.com/ReadingNonfiction for special previews, videos, and more. “When students recognize that nonfiction ought to challenge us, ought to slow us down and make us think, then they’re more likely to become close readers.” That means we need to help them question texts, authors, and, ultimately, their own thinking. No matter the content area, with Reading Nonfiction’s …
Walking Trees: Portraits of Teachers and Children in the Culture of Schools
One September, Ralph Fletcher entered the world of the New York City public school as a staff developer for the Teachers College Writing Project. Walking Trees is the dramatic story of how he survived the wrenching highs and lows of that school year. Beautifully written, alternately funny and poignant, sad and angry, the book offers an authentic portrait …
For all things Notice & Note, visit Heinemann.com/NoticeAndNote. You’ll find blog posts, videos of Kylene and Bob, community features, and more. Watch Kylene and Bob’s webinar on Notice & Note (approx. 30 minutes) “Just as rigor does not reside in the barbell but in the act of lifting it, rigor in reading is not an …
Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching, Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy
Authors Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have already helped hundreds of thousands of K-3 teachers engage, inform, and inspire early readers and writers. Now, with Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6), Fountas and Pinnell support teachers on the next leg of the literacy journey, addressing the unique challenges of teaching upper elementary students. The product of …
“To have any hope of kids investing fully in the subject matter, we have to start by evoking their curiosity and get them interested in the topic. Engaging the students can’t wait. If we wait for the fun stuff that might pop up later, the kids will have already jumped ship.” -Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Nancy …
The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers
With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, “Isn’t there a book of the strategies themselves?” Now there is. “Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible,” Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in …