Books from Firsthand
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Organizing and Collecting: The Number System
By Nina Liu, Catherine Twomey Fosnot, Maarten Dolk"In Organizing and Collecting the hopelessly disorganized Masloppy family's efforts to keep track of their things create a context for investigating place value patterns and efficient ways to count with five- and ten-structures.
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Best Buys, Ratios, and Rates: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
By Catherine Twomey Fosnot, William JacobEach unit provides a two-week sequence of investigation, minilessons, games, and other contexts for learning. The series' 18 classroom-tested units are organized into grade-appropriate levels.
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Units of Study for Primary Writing
By Lucy McCormick CalkinsLaunching the Writing Workshop Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies The Craft of Revision Authors as Mentors Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports Poetry: Powerful Thoughts in ...
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Sing a Song of Poetry: A Teaching Resource for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Fluency
By Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas“ When ducks get up in the morning , They always say , " Quack , quack . ... Where Is Thumbkin ? Where is thumbkin ? Where is. fold here foid here ( 270 fold here SUGGESTION : Sung to ( 269 When Ducks Get Up in the Morning.
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The Comprehension Toolkit: Language and Lessons for Active Literacy
By Stephanie Harvey, Anne GoudvisThe Source Book of Short Text provides two kinds of nonfiction text: Lesson Text, 24 articles from children's magazines; and Nonfiction Short Text, 43 short informational articles specially written for the Toolkit.
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Comprehension Intervention: Small-group Lessons for the Primary Comprehension Toolkit
By Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, Judy WallisCreated to follow the Toolkit lesson, the Comprehensive Intervention small-group sessions narrow the instructional focus, concentrating on critical aspects of the Toolkit's lesson strategy to reinforce kids' understanding, step by step. -- ...
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Authors as Mentors
By Lucy Calkins, Amanda HartmanPart of a year-long curriculum of units about primary writing
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The Arc of Story: Writing Realistic Fiction
By Lucy Calkins, Maria Colleen CruzThis series of books is designed to help upper elementary teachers teach a rigourous yearlong writing curriculum.
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Climb Inside a Poem: Reading and Writing Poetry Across the Year
By Lester L. Laminack, Georgia HeardOrganized into three separate sections, the minilessons in this guide offer tips for outfitting and organizing classrooms where poetry can flourish; highlight a variety of reading strategies that immerse children in the words and music of ...
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Comprehension Intervention: Small-group Lessons for the Comprehension Toolkit
By Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, Judy WallisCreated to follow each Toolkit lesson, the Comprehension Intervention small-group sessions narrow the instructional focus, concentrating on critical aspects of the Toolkit's lesson strategy to reinforce kids' understanding, step by step. -- ...
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Teaching the Qualitites of Writing, Grades 3-6
By JoAnn Portalupi, Ralph Fletcher" -JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher Learn how to improve your students' writing and how JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher introduce students to the qualities of writing-ideas, design, language, presentation-and the power of their own ...
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Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words, and How They Work
By Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. FountasA Complete Phonics and Word Study Curriculum for each of the primary grades With 100 minilessons for each of the three grade levels, you can use the month-bymonth planning guide, the assessment checklists, and the lesson selection map to ...
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Word Study Lessons: Teaching Resources Grade 3
By Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. FountasA complete Phonics and Word Study Curriculum for each of the primary grades with 100 Minilessons for Kindergarten.
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A Quick Guide to Teaching Second-Grade Writers with Units of Study
By Lucy CalkinsIn A Quick Guide to Teaching Second Grade Writers with Units of Study Lucy Calkins chronicles a curricular calendar that will help teachers increase the volume of student writing; encourage students to lift the level of their writing by ...
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A Principal's Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing: Helping Teaches With Units of Study
By Lucy Calkins, Laurie PessahOrganized around the school calendar, the ten chapters in "A principal's guide to leadership in the teaching of writing" walk principals through the month-by-month demands involved in organizing and implementing whole-school reform in the ...
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Units of Study for Teaching Writing: Grades 3-5
By Lucy Calkins, Kathy CollinsThis series of books is designed to help upper-elementary teachers teach a rigourous yearlong writing curriculum.
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The Conferring Handbook
By Lucy Calkins, Amanda Hartman, Zoë WhitePart of a series of primary writing units within a yearlong curriculum
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50 Essential Lessons: Tools and Techniques for Teaching English Language Arts
By Jim Burke50 Essential Lessons is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world.
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Come to Class: Lessons for High School Writers
By Carol JagoCome to Class offers you that opportunity. In Come to Class, Carol Jago shares the writing lessons and classroom survival skills she honed over 32 years of teaching.
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Crafting Nonfiction, Lessons on Writing Process, Traits, and Craft
By Linda HoytFocused on the process and traits of being a writer and how to best address the needs and expectations of nonfiction readers, Linda Hoyt's" Crafting Nonfiction "offers targeted minilessons that will help you elevate craft, integrate trait ...