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  • The Next Step Forward in Word Study and Phonics

    Jan Richardson, Michéle Dufresne

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, Sept. 16, 2019)
    Guided reading experts, Jan Richardson and Michèle Dufresne, provide teachers with clear, concise, and practical instructions and resources for planning and teaching developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons. Learn how students solve words, how to assess what students know and need to learn next, and what sequence, materials and activities to use to help students become proficient word solvers and independent readers. Works with the familiar Next Step Forward lesson plan framework from Richardson's best-selling Next Step Forward in Guided Reading. Uses a gradual release of responsibility approach that guides students to independent word solving.Introduces readers to not just one approach to phonics and word study—but six.Includes more than 250 ready-to-use word study lessons, leveled from pre-A–Z.
  • The Complete Chronicles of Narnia

    C. S. Lewis

    Paperback (Scholastic Books, Jan. 1, 1995)
    The Chronicles of Narnia Collection 7 Books set by C.S. Lewis.The series revolves around the adventures of children in the world of Narnia, guided by Aslan.
  • 6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up

    Ruth Culham, Beverly Ann Chin

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional Books, March 15, 2003)
    These powerful models give you everything you need to assess and teach young writers.
  • Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids

    Donalyn Miller, Colby Sharp

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, Nov. 20, 2018)
    Literacy advocates with a deep passion for books bestselling author Donalyn Miller and 5th grade teacher Colby Sharp showcase the power of children s access to books, providing teachers and administrators with the tools and information they need to increase children s meaningful interaction with books and to launch or sustain book access initiatives in their communities. Through research and testimonials from voices in the field and their own classroom experiences, Miller and Sharp provide practical and resourceful information on a range of topics and areas, (including successful school and classroom libraries, the power of book ownership, the importance of cultural and social access to books, and meaningful family-community reading engagement) designed to help dramatically increase children s access to and life-changing engagement with books.
  • The Writing Teacher's Companion: Embracing Choice, Voice, Purpose & Play

    Ralph Fletcher

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, June 30, 2017)
    Celebrated author and educator Ralph Fletcher provides a practical and illuminating guide to writing workshop for both new and veteran teachers that details the best ways to get started, the components that are vital, and what it takes to sustain a successful workshop across the school year. Fletcher, a wise and witty writing companion, shows us why encouraging choice, purpose, and play helps students find their voices and produce strong, effective writing.
  • The Next Step Forward in Reading Intervention: The RISE Framework

    Jan Richardson, Ellen Lewis

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, July 20, 2018)
    Literacy intervention should be swift and powerful—and this approach by Jan Richardson and Ellen Lewis provides fast results! After only 6-8 weeks of intervention, students can gain the confidence, proficiency, and skills they need to excel as readers and exit intervention! Based on Jan's bestselling The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading, this companion volume is intended to be used together in order to best implement the RISE framework.. The Next Step Forward in Reading Intervention offers intensive, short-term, targeted instruction in reading, writing, word study, and comprehension. It’s a step-by-step handbook for literacy teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists who are looking for a proven reading invention program that really works. “RISE has truly changed the face of intervention at our school.” — Ranita Glenn, Reading Specialist and RISE instructor, Hardy Elementary School, Chattanooga, Tennessee
  • The Guided Reading Teacher's Companion: Prompts, Discussion Starters & Teaching Points

    Jan Richardson, Richardson Jan Richardson

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, July 16, 2016)
    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.
  • The Megabook of Fluency

    Timothy V. Rasinski;Melissa Cheesman Smith

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, April 16, 2018)
    <DIV>Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition the potential is high for improving students overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.</DIV>
  • From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers

    Stephanie Harvey, Annie Ward

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, Oct. 10, 2017)
    When it comes to readers who need the most support, teachers can’t afford to waste time using fragmented, skill-and-drill interventions that don’t work. Literacy specialists Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward demonstrate how to “table the labels” and use detailed formative assessments to craft targeted, personalized instruction that enable striving readers to do what they need above all - to find books they love and engage in voluminous reading. Loaded with ready-to-go lessons, routines, and “actions,” as well as the latest research, this book is a must for any teacher who strives to make every reader a thriving reader.
  • The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading book + The Guided Reading Teacher's Companion

    Jan Richardson

    Spiral-bound (Scholastic Professional, Nov. 9, 2016)
    In this resource-rich book and teacher’s prompting guide, you’ll find:- All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson’s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework. - Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers. - 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies―monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others. - Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson’s all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates.- More than 40 short videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage.- A handy flip-chart guide with prompts, discussion starters, and teaching points for use during guided reading to inform your next step forward.
  • Rime Magic: Phonics-Powered Prevention and Intervention for All Students

    Sharon Zinke

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, Jan. 13, 2017)
    What is Rime Magic? It’s a new word recognition resource that’s changing the lives of all readers—beginning readers, English learners, and older striving readers who need more support. The rime is the key part of a word that makes it easy to see the structure (for example, the /ip/ in slippery or the /at/ in splattered). Teachers carry out instruction using rime and word cards and engaging lessons found inside the Rime Magic kit. Students add onsets and endings to the rimes to identify, analyze, and combine into words—like magic! These onset/rime lessons help students “crack the code” of the written word and, when used repeatedly in five-minute lessons, bolster reading and spelling proficiency. With practice, students pick up the pace and the rime jumps out at them as they read. Confidence soars and word recognition becomes more and more automatic, leading to enhanced comprehension and fluency.This kit includes:o Teacher’s Guideo Rime and Word Cardso Short Vowel and Endings Cardso Power Pak intervention seto Poem Cardso Trade books for younger readerso High-interest articles for older readerso How-to videos that show each Rime Magic step in actiono Downloadable student pages and teaching tools
  • The Reading Zone

    Nancie Atwell, Ann Atwell Merkel, Atwell Nancie; Merkel Ann Atwell; Merkel

    Paperback (Scholastic Professional, Nov. 16, 2016)
    Decades of expert teaching and thoughtful observation of readers inform this expanded second edition of The Reading Zone. Dynamic teaching and writing partners, mother and daughter Atwell and Atwell Merkel show how to teach reading as a personal art―a way to develop passionate, critical readers for life―and how to build a schoolwide reading culture on self-selected, voluminous reading. The authors describe the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and share the ideas and structures that have helped their own students succeed.