The Guilford Press imprint: 631 books
Creating Robust Vocabulary
Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Bringing Words to Life has enlivened the classrooms of hundreds of thousands of teachers. Responding to readers' success stories, practical questions, and requests for extended examples, this ideal volume builds on the groundbreaking work of Bringing Words to Life. The authors present additional tools,...
Teaching Academic Vocabulary K-8
Effective Practices across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This book showcases effective ways to build the vocabulary knowledge K-8 learners need to engage meaningfully in reading, writing, and discussion on academic subjects. The distinguished authors draw on decades of classroom experience to explain what academic vocabulary is, how it fits into the Common...
Children's Literature in the Classroom
Engaging Lifelong Readers
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Many reading programs today overlook an essential component of literacy instruction—helping children develop an enduring love of reading. This authoritative and accessible guide provides a wealth of ideas for incorporating high-quality children's books of all kinds into K–6 classrooms. Numerous...
Differentiated Reading Instruction
Strategies for the Primary Grades
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book provides a research-based framework for making differentiated instruction work in the primary grades. It includes scientifically validated techniques for teaching each component of the beginning reading program. The authors describe how to use assessment to form differentiated small groups...
The New Literacies
Multiple Perspectives on Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learning—and the changing nature of literacy itself—in today's K–12 classrooms. The focus is on varied technologies and literacies such as social networking sites, text messaging,...
Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension
A Guide for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
How do K-12 students become self-regulated learners who actively deploy comprehension strategies to make meaning from texts? This cutting-edge guide is the first book to highlight the importance of executive skills for improving reading comprehension. Chapters review the research base for particular...
Cracking the Common Core
Choosing and Using Texts in Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This book guides teachers in grades 6-12 to strategically combine a variety of texts--including literature, informational texts, and digital sources--to meet their content-area goals and the demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It presents clear-cut ways to analyze text complexity, design...
Unpacking Complexity in Informational Texts
Principles and Practices for Grades 2-8
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
To acquire content knowledge through reading, students must understand the complex components and diverse purposes of informational texts, as emphasized in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This practical book illuminates the ways in which a text’s purpose, structure, details, connective language,...
Matching Books and Readers
Helping English Learners in Grades K-6
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum....
Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children, Second Edition
Creative Arts and Play Therapy, eds Malchiodi and Crenshaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A trusted, bestselling resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Experts in play, art, music, movement, and drama therapy, as well as bibliotherapy, describe step-by-step strategies for working with...
Child Development, Third Edition
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The author explains how children's trajectories are shaped by transactions among early relationships, brain development, and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
An authoritative teacher resource and widely adopted text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent literacy instruction in the era of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Leading educators describe effective practices for motivating diverse learners in grades 5-12, building comprehension...
Exemplary Instruction in the Middle Grades
Teaching That Supports Engagement and Rigorous Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Offering fresh alternatives to common instructional practices that fail to get results, this accessible, highly practical guide highlights ways to motivate middle school students while enhancing content-area learning. Each chapter features an enlightening case study of a teacher whose current strategies...
Real Talk in Elementary Classrooms
Effective Oral Language Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Describing effective, creative strategies for talking with students in ways that enhance literacy learning, this book offers a window into the classrooms of four exemplary teachers. Principles of productive classroom discussions are illustrated with detailed case examples. The book shows how—and...