Books, Nonfiction, Education, Lesson Planning

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Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong
The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher
by Harry K. Wong Publications (Paperback)

Used by new and veteran teachers, college instructors, and administrators, this is a beautifully designed book on classroom management, student achievement, and teacher effectiveness. Color graphics.

E. L. Konigsburg
Literature Guide: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Grades 4-8)
by Scholastic (Paperback)

Lois Lowry
Literature Guide: The Giver (Grades 4-8)
by Scholastic (Paperback)

Wilson Rawls
Literature Guide: Where the Red Ferns Grow (Grades 4-8)
by Scholastic (Paperback)

Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe
Understanding by Design
by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development (Paperback)

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowing? What do we want students to understand and be able to do? What enduring knowledge is worth understanding? How will we know that students truly understand and can apply knowledge in a meaningful way? How can we design our courses and units to emphasize understanding and "uncoverage" rather than "coverage"? Understanding by Design explores these questions and provides practical solutions for the teacher-designer. The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction. Authors Wiggins and McTighe propose a multifaceted approach, with the six "facets" of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, practical framework for designing curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Beyond its theories, Understanding by Design offers practical ...

Scott O'Dell
Literature Guide: Island of the Blue Dolphins (Grades 4-8)
by Scholastic (Paperback)

Robert J. Marzano, Debra Pickering, Jane E. Pollock
Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve (Paperback)

What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students? Questions like these arise in most schools, and busy educators often don't have time to find the answers. Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock have examined decades of research findings to distill the results into nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning: * Identifying similarities and differences. * Summarizing and note taking. * Reinforcing effort and providing recognition. * Homework and practice. * Nonlinguistic representations. * Cooperative learning. * Setting objectives and providing feedback. * Generating and testing hypotheses. * Questions, cues, and advance organizers. This list is not new. But what is surprising is finding out what a big difference it makes, for example, when ...

Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine Johnston
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction
by Merrill Publishing Company (Paperback)

With more than 15 years of extensive observations and experiences in real classrooms, the authors bring keen insight to this activity-based book. They advocate basing student learning on the appropriate developmental level. This philosophy is supported with more than 250 ready-to-use word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics activities presented in developmental sequence, from the Emergent through the Derivational Relation stage. For educators and school administrators.

LAURIE SWINWOOD
A Guide for Using The Best Christmas Pageant Ever in the Classroom
by Teacher Created Resources (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-11-03)

This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, cross-curriculum activities, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending the novel.

John A. Van de Walle
Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally
by Allyn & Bacon (Paperback)

This leading K-8 math methods text has the most coverage of the NCTM standards, the strongest coverage of middle school mathematics, and the highest student approval of any text currently available. Elementary and Middle School Mathematics provides an unparalleled depth of ideas and discussion to help students develop a real understanding of the mathematics they will teach. John Van de Walle, one of the foremost experts on how children learn mathematics, finds that 80 percent of the students who purchase this book keep it for reference when they begin their professional teaching careers. This text reflects the NCTM Principles and Standards and the benefits of constructivist-or student-centered-mathematics instruction. Moreover, it is structured for maximum flexibility, offering 24 brief, compartmentalized chapters that may be mixed and matched to fit any course or teaching approach.

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