• Book Club Plus:A Conceptual Framework to Organize Literacy Instruction
  Taffy E. Raphael, Susan Florio-Ruane, MariAnne George. This articles describes a research-based literacy framework highly recommended by Dr. Karen Bean, one of the IRCs instructors for ESL methods.
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• Book Club Plus!
  Taffy E. Raphael, Susan Florio-Ruane, MariAnne George, Nina L. Hasty, and Kathy Highfield This research-based literacy framework for primary grades is recommended by International Reading Association and Karen Bean, an ESL instructor for the IRC See a Middle school version
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• Book Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition
  by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, This books explains Understanding by Design, presents research related to how "understanding" promotes transfer. Chapter and intro online. See also the related Professional Development Workbook.
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• Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools
  Drawing from 35 years of research, Robert J. Marzano focuses on what works. The vocabulary terms that are critical to students' success are included for all grade levels. Learn why insufficient background knowledge is a chronic cause of low achievement, and learn strategies that help.
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• Educating English Language Learners: A Synthesis of Research Evidence by Fred Genesee, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Donna Christian
  Educating English Language Learners: A Synthesis of Research Evidence by Fred Genesee, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Donna Christian "The book provides the first and only review of scientific research on the learning outcomes of students with limited or no proficiency in English in U.S. schools. Research on students in kindergarten to grade 12 is reviewed. The primary chapters of the book focus on these students' acquisition of oral language skills in English, their development of literacy (reading & writing) skills in English, instructional issues in teaching literacy, and achievement in academic domains (i.e., mathematics, science, and reading). The reviews and analyses of the research are relatively technical with a focus on research quality, design characteri
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• Exploring Writing in the Content Areas
  This book by Maria Carty helps teachers of content-area subjects discover ways to help their students become better, more capable writers. It shows them how to take students through all the steps involved in producing written documents—from generating ideas to researching to revising and editing—and provides them a wealth of practical tips for supporting and encouraging student work. Exploring Writing in the Content Areas suggests specific techniques designed to help students:
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• Into the Book: Teacher Area Strategies
  This web site is a resource for teachers to further their knowledge on implementing specific reading strategies in the classroom. There are reading lessons and examples as well as specific definitions for each strategy plus sample videos. The site also includes downloadable material such as music, lyrics, and posters for each strategy and much more. A section for students is also available. Rec. by Jennifer Zitella.
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• Multilingual Matters / Channel View Publications >> Title Display
  Summary: This book by Kim Potowskidescribes the experiences of a group of students in Chicago, Illinois, who are attending one of the first Spanish-English dual immersion schools in the United States. The author follows the group during two school years, documenting their Spanish use and proficiency, as well as how their two languages intersect with the ongoing production of their identities. Review: This volume offers valuable insights into the inner workings of two-way immersion classrooms and helps us understand why students resist using Spanish. Everyone who cares about bilingualism as a goal of two-way immersion should know about this research. Donna Christian, President of the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, USA
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• Teacher Book Wizard
  Find Children's Books by Reading Level, Topic, Genre. Level Books | Scholastic.com It is important that students are reading books that match their interest and also a right fit in its reading level. This site offers teachers a resource in helping find books for students by searching through various categories. Teachers can find the level of specific books based on grade equivalent levels, DRA, lexile ranges, or the guided reading system. Also, in finding appropriate texts for students in instruction and for independent reading, teachers can search books by subject/topic, reading level, student interest level, book type, genre, and language (English or Spanish/bilingual). Recommended by Eunice Park
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• Understanding by Design Expanded 2nd Ed, Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
  This is the comprehensive text for the UBD design. Since 1998, thousands of educators have used Understanding by Design to answer these questions and create more rigorous and engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded second edition gives you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching:
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• Classroom Management That Works
  Here’s a book that draws from more than 100 studies of classroom management to explain the four most important general components of effective classroom management and their impact on student engagement and achievement. Learn the steps teachers need to take to establish rules and procedures, use disciplinary interventions, build positive student-teacher relationships, and develop a sound mental set to deal with difficult situations.
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• Differentiated Early Literacy for English Language Learners: Practical Strategies
  This brief and highly practical text by Paul Boyd-Batstone offers pre-service and in-service teachers strategies and activities for differentiating early literacy instruction for English language learners.
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• English Learners: Reaching the Highest Level of English Literacy
  This book by Garcia & Beltran (2004)rovides teachers and school administrators a resource for meeting the complex literacy needs of the burgeoning English language learner (ELL) population. The collection examines three important ELL issues: English reading instruction in an immersion setting, English language development, and cultural issues as they pertain to English learners in and out of the classroom.
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• Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction
  by Joan M. Kenney, Euthecia Hancewicz, Loretta Heuer, Diana Metsisto and Cynthia L. Tuttle This book examines the importance of language to competency in math and offers strategies for developing literacy skills related to math. Rec. by ASCD
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• Making the Match
  The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time, Grades 4-12vTeri Lesesne, the author, says the key is finding the books that get them hooked in the first place. The book concludes with an invaluable set of appendices providing an FAQ on YA literature, bibliographies of professional materials, books by the vignette authors, and over twenty booklists with hundreds of books organized by genre or topic, all with suggested grade levels.
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• Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook
  A BOOK review entire book online. In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also addresses many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks with their students.
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• Practical Fluency: Classroom Perspectives, Grades K-6
  Review entire book online.Max and Gayle Brand have worked together with students and colleagues over many years to discover the most effective whole-class, small-group, and individual strategies and activities for building both reading and writing fluency. They link all this work to the most current research on fluency, taking readers into the daily routines of their classrooms. ASCD rec.
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• Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading
  Book: by Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman "Finally! A book about content-area reading that’s just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers. Subjects Matter includes 23 practical classroom reading strategies for many subject areas. The authors also provide a tough analysis of today’s textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively, and a new “balanced diet” of reading, including 150 books of interest to teenage readers." Rec. by Barbara Range
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• Teachers as Classroom Coaches
  How to Motivate Students Across the Content Areas by Andi Stix and Frank Hrbek Review Chapters online
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• The Principal Difference: Key Issues in School Leadership and How to Deal with Them Successfully
  Review entire book online. A teacher educator, researcher and consultant, Susan Church has a long-standing interest in the complexities and challenges of educational leadership. In The Principal Difference she explores the issues that confront school administrators, and demonstrates how best to provide the leadership today's schools need. It draws on the latest research and personal case studies. ASCD recommended book online for review.
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