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Welcome to Reading Workshop
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Brenda Krupp
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Shifting the Balance, 3–5
Shifting the Balance, 3–5
Katie Cunningham
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We're Gonna Keep On Talking
Matthew R. Kay and Jennifer Orr
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6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching
6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching
Nicora Placa
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Better Book Clubs
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Welcome to Reading Workshop

9781625315304

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In Welcome to Reading Workshop: Structures and Routines that Support All Readers, Brenda Krupp and Lynne Dorfman bring their years of collective experience leading successful reading workshops to showcase the structures, routines, rituals, and behind-the-scenes decision making that will have your reading workshop running smoothly and effectively. Within the pages, you’ll find ways to effectively use self-selected reading materials, create mini-lessons, build time for reading conferences and small group work, and use assessments to guide instruction.

In this practical guide, you’ll find tips and ideas to make these techniques immediately attainable, including:
  • Recommendation lists from much loved books to classroom implementation suggestions
  • Easy to access video clips to extend learning
  • Expert contributions and tips from the field
  • A rich appendix with templates, lessons, and resources
  • Reflection questions to promote collegial conversations
Whether you’re a brand-new teacher or seasoned veteran, you’re looking to try something new or working on refining your current reading workshops, the authors welcome you to join them in an exploration of this powerful instructional model. Welcome to Reading Workshop will inspire you and your students with an excitement for reading that fosters engagement and builds life-long readers. 
 
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Shifting the Balance, 3–5

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In this much anticipated follow-up to their groundbreaking book, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom, authors Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, together with co-author Katie Cunningham, extend the conversation in Shifting the Balance 3-5: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This new text is built in mind specifically for grades 3-5 teachers around best practices for the intermediate classroom. 

Shifting the Balance 3-5 introduces six more shifts across individual chapters that:
  • Zoom in on a common (but not-as helpful-as-we-had-hoped) practice to reconsider
  • Untangle a number of “misunderstandings” that have likely contributed to the use of the common practice
  • Propose a more science-aligned shift to the current practice
  • Provide solid scientific research to support the revised practice
  • Offer a collection of high-leverage, easy-to-implement instructional routines to support the shift to more brain-friendly instruction
The authors offer a refreshing approach that is respectful, accessible, and practical – grounded in an earnest commitment to building a bridge between research and classroom practice. As with the first Shifting the Balance, they aim to keep students at the forefront of reading instruction. 
 
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We're Gonna Keep On Talking

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What should conversations about race look and sound like in the elementary classroom? How do we respond authentically and truthfully to children’s questions about the world? 
And how can we build classroom communities that encourage these meaningful conversations about race?

Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr take on these questions and more in We’re Gonna Keep On Talking: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Elementary Classroom. A companion work to Kay’s Not Light, But Fire, this book focuses on the unique and powerful role discussions about race can play in the elementary classroom.

Drawing its title inspiration from the lyrics of the freedom song “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,” sung by hundreds of children marching against segregation in what came to be known as the Children’s Crusade of 1963, We’re Gonna Keep On Talking is written for teachers who are willing to match children’s courage and brilliance, and who believe that “a foundation in meaningful race discourse will help [children] to seek justice for themselves and their neighbors, to be kinder, [and] more thoughtful.”

Writing with the humility and honest storytelling of two career classroom teachers, Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr share:
  • Strategies for building safe and supportive classroom and school spaces for productive discourse
  • Dozens of practical teacher moves for facilitating race conversations
  • Classroom stories that allow readers to envision ways into the work through picture books, art, graphs, historical photographs, and current events
  • Tips for aligning the work of race conversations to your grade-level standards
Whether you are unsure of where to begin or looking to deepen your practice, We’re Gonna Keep On Talking will be your guide to the important work of race conversations in the elementary classroom.
 
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6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching

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In 6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching, Nicora Placa lays out a clear path to help you become a trusted and effective math coach. Her “6 Tools” are flexible structures that you and your colleagues can use to learn together:
 
  1. Building Teams: Fostering a Learning Community
  2. Student Interviews: Learning to Listen
  3. Visiting Classrooms: Developing Your Lens
  4. Learning Walks: Focusing the Team on Students’ Thinking
  5. Rehearsing Routines: Practicing with Colleagues
  6. Lesson Study: Learning Collectively with Voice, Choice, and Agency

In this easy-to-use, practical guide, Placa introduces each of the 6 Tools with classroom vignettes, step-by-step guidelines for rollout, connections to the literature, resources for further research, planning templates, and opportunities for you to adapt the tool for your particular context.

Whether you're a new coach who loves teaching math to children but is new to adult education, or a more experienced coach who is looking for new strategies to engage your teams, 6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching can help you create learning opportunities that honor teachers as professionals. With a collaborative coaching approach, you can improve teaching and learning across your school and for all your students.

"There’s so much to love about how 6 Tools is constructed." --Elham Kazemi
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Better Book Clubs

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In her comprehensive guide, Better Book Clubs: Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation, literacy coach and staff developer Sara Kugler shows you how to combine the power of book clubs with assessment-driven instruction to support your students as they talk and think about texts together. Using authentic book club conversations as an assessment of academic talk and text understanding, Kugler raises the bar on typical professional discussions about book clubs, moving beyond teacher-directed interactions and surface-level conversations to include:
  • Structures, teaching methods, and routines that support authenticity and independence in book clubs
  • Suggestions for starting, scaffolding, and sustaining effective, student-centered book clubs
  • Tips for listening in on clubs as a way to assess academic talk and text understanding
  • Methods for moving from observation into instruction that improves conversation and comprehension
  • Touchstone anchor charts and sample lessons for launching and maintaining strong clubs at a variety of independence levels
With a dual focus on stronger comprehension and improved conversations, Better Book Clubs will help you establish effective book clubs that will engage your readers, enhance your learning communities, and become an indispensable component of your literacy classroom.
 
Better Book Clubs
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Conferring in the Math Classroom

9781625315137

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All students enter our math classrooms with ideas worthy of discussion. Some of the most effective breakthroughs come from short, intentional conversations between students and teacher, yet planning for these moments can seem daunting. In her innovative book, Conferring in the Math Classroom: A Practical Guidebook to Using 5-Minute Conferences to Grow Confident Mathematicians, Gina Picha focuses on simple and transformative ways teachers can use math conferences, short conversations between teachers and small groups of students at work, to guide instruction, assess understanding, and build strong math thinkers. 

Inside you will learn to: 
 
  • Facilitate math conferences to listen to students, identify and build on their strengths, and encourage them to share their math thinking
  • Build a positive math identity that will help nurture student-centered math classrooms
  • Ask exploratory questions to gain data-driven insight into their math reasoning and plan the next steps for instruction 
  • Provide differentiated math instruction based on the individual or small group needs
  • Drive fun and interactive math talk in the classroom
 
Picha includes teacher questioning guides, If-Then charts organized by grade level and math topic, and note-taking templates to help you get started with math conferring right away. This practical and highly accessible approach can help students deepen their math understanding, build confidence in their math abilities, and connect learnings between math subjects.  

 
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