Books published by publisher Scholastic Professional

A new addition to the best-selling Daily Word Ladder series, Content Areas will reinforce concepts that students are learning in math, science, and social studies while inviting them to dive into word study! These motivating word-building puzzles build students' awareness of sound-symbol relationships, broaden their vocabulary, and improve spelling skills. Includes new teaching notes to provide extra teaching opportunities!

Jennifer Serravallo provides a blueprint for helping readers succeed. Her formula is simple: know your readers well and understand the challenges they’ll encounter at each step in their reading journey. Serravallo’s go-to guide shows how to find out what your readers need as they approach each level, starting with Level J. You’ll find descriptors of the complexity challenges for each level, organized into Fiction and Nonfiction sections. Serravallo shows you how turn what you know and learn about your readers into actionable instruction.

A new addition to the best-selling Daily Word Ladder series, Content Areas will reinforce concepts that students are learning in math, science, and social studies while inviting them to dive into word study! These motivating word-building puzzles build students' awareness of sound-symbol relationships, broaden their vocabulary, and improve spelling skills. Includes new teaching notes to provide extra teaching opportunities!

There's no better way to deepen children's comprehension and appreciation of books than with literature circles. But let's face it, it's not always easy to plan, manage, and evaluate them—until now. Whether you're starting from scratch or just looking for new ideas, Moving Forward with Literature Circles provides all the tools you need—guidelines, minilessons, booklists, checklists, and more—to maintain a successful program in your classroom.

Before actual writing occurs, writers prepare. With these words, award-winning children’s author David Harrison affirms the importance of teaching students the necessary steps of prewriting—from choosing a viable topic to conducting in-depth research to taking effective notes and organizing them. In this book David offers insights into his prewriting process, while educator Mary Jo Fresch translates his methods into engaging lessons that develop students’ research skills to enhance their writing.

In this convenient flip-chart guide, you can easily find prompts, discussion starters, and teaching points to use when you want students to process more effectively, think more deeply, and express their ideas more thoughtfully. The self-standing guide with sturdy pages makes it convenient to use while working with small groups. Instantly, you can use these tools as starting points for in-depth inquiry based on behaviors you’re noticing in students. There are also recommendations on how to revise them as necessary to meet every reader’s needs.

By observing the deep study of one book, teachers will learn how to explore any text with a greater appreciation for and understanding of author's craft, which they can use to support students' development as writers. Fifteen ready-to-use mini-lessons introduce students to techniques and literary elements they can use to craft their own writing. The companion website features videos of best-selling author, Lester L. Laminack, demonstrating how writers can work with both audible and visual craft. The companion site also includes downloadable forms and guidelines teachers can use with their students to explore writer's craft.

A master teacher shows you an engaging, new way to teach essay and other non fiction writing. Lessons are sequential, include model pieces, and give you everything you need, including a fantastic pillar organizational framework for students. Covers skills such as developing a main idea sentence, supporting ideas, using quotes and facts, intros and conclusions. For use with Grades 4-8.

Before reading, hand out lines of a poem and have students try to build an idea of what the poem will be about...invite two students to play good angel/bad angel for a book character...have students perform a vocabulary statue depicting the meaning of terms such as global warming or deforestation. This book has many motivating ideas like this that energize students before, during, and after reading. These strategies can be done individually, or through pair work or groups. Great for deepening reading strategies such as activating prior knowledge, inferring, visualizing, making connections, and more. For use with Grades 4 & Up.

Think aloud as you read from a novel, a textbook, or any kind of book and watch your students become confident, fluent readers! With this simple, powerful technique, you can show students how you use strategies such as inferring, visualizing, and summarizing. Finally, students can "see" what good readers do and apply it to their own reading process. Think alouds are great for struggling readers, because they make reading an active, social experience. Includes engaging activities like Open Mind, Fish Bowl, Thought Bubbles, Post its, and more. For use with Grades 3-8.

Meet Your New “Best Friends!” This kit by Lester L. Laminack guides you and your students as you venture deep inside books and engage in the rich discussion and literary analysis of an interactive read-aloud. Each grade-specific collection includes:- 5 “Best Friend Books” selected by Lester L. Laminack (5 copies each).- 5 full-color, multipanel teaching cards, developed with Reba M. Wadsworth, with detailed lesson plans and suggestions for “first visits” and “home visits”―helping students discover the magic of literary language.- An online resource bank that features Lester modeling a read-aloud that highlights exquisite language and intriguing literary elements, and underscores the profound instructional value of literature in the classroom; also included: downloadable graphic organizers and resources for families.- 128-page professional book, The Ultimate Read-Aloud Resource, by Lester L. Laminack.