If you're looking for a powerful tool to enhance your students' research efforts, then this is the resource for you! Using a respected model of group investigation as a guide, this book provides proved, ready-to-use ways to help your children stay focused, meet deadlines and complete their required assignments.

If you're looking for a powerful tool to enhance your students' research efforts, then this is the resource for you! Using a respected model of group investigation as a guide, this book provides proved, ready-to-use ways to help your children stay focused, meet deadlines and complete their required assignments.

From Character Sketcher to Plot Person, ready-to-use reproducible role sheets to make your literature circle discussions exciting, informative and fun! Also promotes writing, listening and cooperative learning skills, fosters individual assessment and facilitates reading success. Preselected lists of student books, guidelines for getting started, observation charts and more.

With practical step-by-step instructions and complete lessons that include sample texts and graphic organizers, it is no mystery figuring out how easily these nonfiction literacy lessons can enhance your curriculum. By constructing and deconstructing paragraphs using common nonfiction text types, nonfiction readers learn how to become better writers, and nonfiction writers learn how to become better readers.

eBooks offer students as well as teachers, school and public librarians, and parents tremendous possibilities. This book explains how to expand and enhance the reading experience through the use of technology. Today, eBooks are everywhere, and the use of digital learning materials is beginning to supplant traditional printed materials. As the world shifts to digital books, both teachers and students need to be comfortable and effective using materials in this format. This book helps you to apply eBook materials to existing curricula to create interactive educational activities and have access to more materials to support reading instruction, literacy, standards, and reading in the content areas. Author Terence W. Cavanaugh, an expert on teaching with technology, describes numerous strategies for integrating eBooks into reading instruction and remediation for students in preschool through grade 6. He covers the hardware and software used, the wide range of formats available, and research conducted on the use of eBooks with students as well as how to access free resources such as digital libraries and special collections that make eBooks available for schools. The book also contains a chapter dedicated to using eBooks to help emergent or struggling readers.

Learn how to teach civics in today’s classrooms! This professional book explores key civics topics and offers strategies for incorporating civics into social studies class. Developed in partnership with civic education expert iCivics, this teacher resource provides strategies that build civics knowledge, develop 21st century skills, and engage students. Bring civics into the social studies classroom in a fun, meaningful way with this teacher-friendly book!

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.