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Professional Books for Fall 2013

Stratosphere: Integrating Technology, Pedagogy, and Change Knowledge

Michael Fullan

In his latest book, Michael Fullan takes a close look at the fast-paced world of emerging technologies and argues that the inevitable influence of technology on teaching and learning must not be resisted, but rather embraced and applied in meaningful ways to positively impact school classrooms.

2012 / K–12 / 9780132483148 / $20.00

Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates

Elliot Washor, Charles Mojkowski

Leaving to Learn helps us deeply understand the real reasons kids drop out and the essential conditions for productive learning that today’s adolescents require. The authors then offer nuts and bolts guidelines for implementing a high-quality Leaving to Learn program.

2013 / 9–12 / 9780325046044 / $24.00

The Leaders Guide to 21st Century Education

Ken Kay, Valerie Greenhill

A 7-steps guide to moving schools and districts forward in the quest to prepare students for the challenges of the 21st century. It inspires the teaching and learning of critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. It is an implementation-oriented resource for education leaders at all stages of implementation, from early through advanced.

2012 / K–12 / 9780132117593 / $30.20

Connecting Comprehension and Technology: Adapt and Extend Toolkit Practices

Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis

Connecting Comprehension and Technology will help you expand your students’ literacy toolkit to incorporate practices that help them thrive in our digital world. The authors collaborated on this book to support teachers in active literacy environments to envision and reimagine how technology can enhance children’s learning.

2012 / K–12 / 9780325047034 / $52.00

A resource for classroom teachers that promotes the acquisition of 21st century competencies and skills through open-ended creative problem-solving projects.

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Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner

Karen Hume

This professional book. Offers practical advice for teachers, and highlights what is different about today’s classrooms and explores the relationship between teacher and student engagement.

With the purchase of the print book, you also gain access to the Tuned Out website. This web-based resource features case studies, line masters, research summaries, author blog, and a complete etext version of Tuned Out.

2010 / 7–12 / 9780138020132 / $59.95

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DESTINATION IMAGINATIONCLASSROOM EDITION

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Calm, Alert, and Learning: Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation

Dr. Stuart Shanker

Recent research tells us that one of the keys to student success is self-regulation —the ability to monitor and modify emotions, to focus or shift attention, to control impulses, and to tolerate frustration or delay gratification.

But can a child’s ability to self-regulate be improved?

Canada’s leading expert on self-regulation, Dr. Stuart Shanker, knows it can and that, as educators, we have an important role to play in helping students’ develop this crucial ability.

2013 / PreK–6 / 9780132927130 / $46.75

Explorations: Learning through Inquiry and Play

Ricki Wortzman, Lalie Harcourt

Explorations offers supportive insights and suggestions into how learning based on inquiry and play can develop and be sustained in the kindergarten classroom. Through a blend of photo vignettes and text, Explorations illustrates how children can and do engage with their environment, materials, each other, and ideas.

2011 / K / 9780132802819 / $195.00

Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook

Gay Su Pinnell, Irene Fountas

Tap into young children’s excitement to introduce them to the world of literacy in joyful, engaging ways with this resource. It provides detailed descriptions of language and literacy behaviours and understandings for teachers to notice, teach, and support, while offering practical strategies for the prekindergarten classroom. Full of resources like songs, rhymes, and finger plays, Literacy Beginnings also includes 35 ready-to-use lessons to introduce young children to reading and writing.

2011 / PreK / 9780325028767 / $36.00

When Readers Struggle: Teaching that Works

Gay Su Pinnell, Irene Fountas

This is a comprehensive resource on struggling readers. It’s filled with specific teaching ideas for helping children in K–3 who are having difficulty in reading and writing.

2009 / K–3 / 9780325018263 / $47.00

EARLY LEARNING

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�ACapturing Learning in the Classroom

Make the Learning in play visible.

CLIC is a web-based tool that allows teachers to capture their observations, comments and reflections, connect them to curriculum, and build an online portfolio for each child in their class.

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Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action

Harvey Daniels, Stephanie Harvey

A guide for teachers who want to realize the benefits of well-structured, student-led, cross-curricular projects. Throughout, chapters offer a mix of materials for you to grab and go as well as some big ideas to think through as you customize inquiry circles for your students.

2013 / K–12 / 9780325012308 / $35.00

Instructional Companion DVDs are also available for elementary, middle and high school grades.

The New Units of Study: in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing

Lucy Calkins

The new Units of Study offers grade-by-grade plans for teaching collaborative writing workshops that support creativity, communication, and critical thinking in the K–5 classroom.

2012 / K–5 / $215.00 per grade

Genre Connections:Lessons to Launch Literary and Nonfiction Texts

Tanny McGregor

Genre Connections makes learning achievable, accessible, and incremental for all readers—including struggling readers. Tanny’s lessons use everyday objects, works of art, music, and her much-loved anchor charts to help readers get acquainted with seven commonly taught genres and to discover what makes them unique.

2013 / K–6 / 9780325033969 / $20.50

An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, 3rd Edition

Marie M. Clay

This third edition of Marie Clay’s highly-valued An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement presents her familiar assessment tasks designed for systematic observation of young children as they learn to read and write. Always respecting the author’s intention, the editors have taken a fresh look at the way the book’s message is communicated to teachers.

2013 / K-3 / 9780325049014 / $35.50

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Genre Study Suite Bundle

Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell

A comprehensive suite of resources that focuses on genre study through inquiry-based learning with an emphasis on reading comprehension and the craft of writing. An inquiry approach engages students in exploring texts so that they can notice and name the characteristics of each genre and construct a working definition that guides their thinking of reading and writing.

The bundle includes Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books; Genre Study Quick Guide a companion to Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books; Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction; Genre Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking. Titles are also available individually.

2012 / K–8 / 9780321935496 / $92.00

The Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guides

Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell

Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guides are teacher tools for individuals or groups of students that provide quick and to the point prompts for teachers to instruct students in their area of need.

Prompting Guide Part 1:A Tool for Literacy Teachers

2012 / PreK–2 / 9780325043647 / $27.00

The Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guide Part 2: for Comprehension

2012 / K–8 / 9780325028736 / $35.00

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Benchmark Assessment System, 2nd EditionAssessment Linked to Instruction: The First Step Toward Helping Struggling Readers

A one-on-one, comprehensive assessment to determine independent and instructional reading levels and for placing students on the Fountas & Pinnell A –Z Text Gradient.

2010 / System 1 – Grades K–2 / 9780325027760 / $395.00

2010 / System 2 – Grades 3–8 / 9780325027968 / $395.00

Leveled Literacy Intervention System The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) is a K to 8+ small-group, supplementary intervention system designed for children who find reading and writing challenging. LLI is designed to bring children quickly up to grade-level competency—in 14 to 18 weeks on average.

LLI Gold System Now Available!

Grade 4 (Levels O–T) is now available. Grades 5 to 8+ are in development.

The LLI Gold System is designed to bring struggling readers to grade level through fast-paced lessons and original, captivating books created specifically for nine- and ten-year-old readers.

It features explicit, direct instruction in 45-minute lessons, 5 days a week for small groups of 4 students, 144 original, high-interest titles (60% nonfiction / 40% fiction), novel study to support sustained reading of literature, and optional test preparation lessons. It includes systematic, intentional vocabulary development and embedded professional development with proven results.

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LITERACY 7–12

Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers

Penny Kittle

In Book Love Penny takes student reading apathy head on. By first recognizing why students don’t read, and then revealing that when we give the right books to kids, along with time to read and regular response to their thinking, we can create a pathway to satisfying reading that leads to more challenging literature and ultimately, a love of reading.

2012 / 6-12 / 9780325042954 / $26.50

Also available by Penny Kittle, Write Beside Them, and Children Want to Write.

Texts and Lessons for Teaching Literature: With 65 Fresh Mentor Texts

Harvey Daniels, Nancy Steineke

In this highly anticipated follow-up to Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading, Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Nancy Steineke share their powerful strategies for engaging students in challenging, meaningful reading of fiction and poetry using some of their favourite short, fresh texts. Use the 38 innovative, step-by-step, lessons with the reproducible texts provided, with selections from your literature textbook, or with your own best-loved texts to teach close reading skills and deep comprehension strategies.

2013 / 6-12 / 9780325044354 / $34.00

Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

Kylene Beers, Robert E. Probst

In Notice and Note, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst introduce six “signposts” that alert readers to significant moments in a work of literature and encourage students to read closely. Learning first to spot these signposts and then to question them, enables readers to explore any text, and to find evidence to support their interpretations. In short, these close reading strategies will help your students to notice and note.

2012 / 4-10 / 9780325046938 / $26.50

The Confident Writing Teacher: Cultivating Meaningful Writing in Middle School

Shelley Barker

Students need more than corrections to thrive as writers. In this practical and uplifting guide, Shelley invites you into her classroom and shares guidance for nurturing yourself as a writer, as well as strategies for building a community of writers in your classroom, tools for building lessons and addressing areas of student need, models of feedback that motivates writers, and rubrics that make assessment valuable to students.

2013 / 6-8 / 9780325021683 / $18.00

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NUMERACY

What to Look For: Understanding and Developing Student Thinking in Early Math

Alex Lawson

Documented in over 70 videos, Dr. Lawson gives us a window into student thinking as she follows a group of children over several years and observes their mathematical journeys. Watch, listen, and read about the strategies these children employ to solve problems and see how their strategies develop in sophistication. Discover how teaching plays a vital role in grounding these strategies in deep understanding and using questioning to advance learning.

2013 / K-2 / 9780321887177 / $59.95

Putting the Practices Into Action

Susan O’Connell, John SanGiovanni

Elevate students’ learning of math from knowledge to application and bring rigour to our math classrooms. Sue O’Connell and John SanGiovanni unpack each of the eight practices and provide a wealth of practical ideas and activities to help you quickly integrate them into your existing math program.

2013 / K-8 / 9780325046556 / $22.50

Math Expressions: Developing Student Thinking and Problem Solving Through Communication

Cathy Marks Krpan

Research is clear: communication is an essential mathematical process. This book provides all the tools to make communication come alive and to ensure the classroom is a vibrant, collaborative learning environment.

2013 / K-8 / 9780321756152 / $41.50

STEM Lesson Essentials: Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Jo Anne Vasquez, Michael Comer, Dr. Cary Sneider

STEM Lesson Essentials moves beyond the rhetoric and provides knowledge, tools, models, and examples that make STEM a reality of teaching and learning in classrooms.

2013 / 3-8 / 9780325043586 / $24.00

Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics, 2nd Ed. (Volumes I–III)

John Van De Walle, Jennifer M. Bay-Williams, Karen Karp, LouAnn H. Lovin

Recent research has provided new information about how students learn particular mathematical ideas. Readers have also provided feedback about what they wished was in the first edition. These ideas are incorporated into this new edition to ensure teachers have access to strong support aligned with the latest developments in mathematics education.

2013 / PreK–2 / 9780132824828 / $40.72

2013 / 3–5 / 9780132824873 / $40.72

2013 / 6–8 / 9780132824866/ $40.72

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Creating the Dynamic Classroom: A Handbook for Teachers, 2nd Canadian Edition

Susan Schwartz, Mindy Pollishuke

Creating the Dynamic Classroom is a valuable resource for both new and experienced teachers. It educates teachers on how to set up a classroom where students are empowered to create a positive learning environment that considers social, developmental, and environmental issues critically.

2013 / K–8 / 9780132916806 / $47.12

The Just-Right Challenge: 9 Strategies to Ensure Adolescents Don’t Drop Out of the Game

Stephanie J Quate, John McDermott

As teachers, we are powerless over many of the factors that lead kids to disengage or drop out. But there are things we can do. Not radical things—shifts in our practice that yield tremendous results. With The Just-Right Challenge, we can do our part to make our classes must-attends and every kid a stay-in.

2013 / 9–12 / 9780325049021/ $23.00

Ten Things That Matter from Assessment to Grading

Tom Schimmer

Ten Things That Matter from Assessment to Grading provides teachers and school administrators with a simple and accessible framework to get started with assessment for learning. The book identifies 10 educational priorities that provide clear links between assessment, instruction, and sound grading while maintaining a focus on student engagement and motivation.

2011 / K–12 /9780132725101 / $34.95

Evidence to Action Professional Book Package and School Kits

Karen Hume

Karen Hume’s bestselling resources are available in practical kits to help your school with classroom assessment.

Evidence to Action: Engaging and Teaching Young Adolescents through Assessment and 50 Tools and Techniques for Classroom Assessment create a powerful new professional resource package for teachers. Together, the books and DVD unravel the sometimes complex topic of assessment and provide practical strategies and examples to help teachers embed assessment into everyday instruction.

2011 / K–12 / Professional Book Package:

9780136083375 / $79.95

PD BOOK ESSENTIALS

Agents of Change: How Content Coaching Transforms Teaching and Learning

Lucy West, Antonia Cameron

Agents of Change provides coaches, administrators, and teacher leaders with specific techniques, tools, and strategies for working with individual classroom teachers to plan and co-teach lessons, reflect on them afterward, and find evidence of student learning.

2013 / K-8 / 9780325013831 / $35.00

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Graphic Intelligence: Possibilities for Assessment and Instruction

Barrie Bennett

The bestselling author of Beyond Monet and Classroom Management now brings you Graphic Intelligence: Possibilities for Assessment and Instruction. This full-colour professional book, based on expert research, is a compendium of graphic organizers—everything from mind maps and concepts maps through ranking ladders and web diagrams. Filled with student examples, Graphic Intelligence showcases the value of organizers as tools for assessment and instruction and support for multiple intelligences and modes of expression.

2010 / K–12 / 9780969538844 / $89.95

Power Plays: Moving from Coping to Cooperation in Your Classroom

Barrie Bennett, Peter Smilanich

For 200 days a year, six hours a day, while teaching hundreds of outcomes, we face the possibility of behaviour issues and power plays erupting in our classrooms, and they do. This resource tackles this issue on two fronts: student behaviour and teacher practice. In the first section, authors Barrie Bennett and Peter Smilanich highlight the sometimes subtle and not-so-subtle moves to power your students will make. In the second section, the authors explore instructional practices that can lessen behavioural problems while creating a healthy, caring classroom culture where all students—and teachers—can thrive.

2013 / K–12 / 9780132875042 / $44.95

Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades

Ken O’Connor

Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades delivers one clear message. Grades are artifacts of learning and students need to receive grades that reflect what they’ve actually learned. This book advocates the implementation of grading systems based strictly on student achievement—and shows educators how to create them.

2011 / 7-12 / 9780132904025 / $39.95

PD BOOK ESSENTIALS

Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres

Troy Hicks

Written for teachers of writing by a teacher of writing, Crafting Digital Writing is an introduction for teachers new to digital writing and a menu of ideas for those who are tech-savvy. Troy Hicks explores the questions of how to teach digital writing by examining author’s craft, demonstrating how intentional thinking about author’s craft in digital texts engages students in writing that is grounded in their digital lives.

2013 / 4–12 / 9780325046969 / $25.50

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EQUITY AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Dual Language Instruction from A to Z: Practical Guidance for Teachers and Administrators

Else Hamayan, Fred Genesee, Nancy Cloud

In this comprehensive guide to developing, implementing, and improving dual-language programs, it address every aspect of a successful dual-language program.

2013 / K–6 / 9780325042381 / $34.00

From Possibility to Success: Achieving Positive Student Outcomes in Inclusive Classrooms

Patrick Schwarz

In his previous book, From Disability to Possibility, Patrick Schwarz made a passionate and compelling argument for the inclusive classroom. From Possibility to Success takes Patrick’s case to the next level by providing teachers with powerful new tools to make inclusive education work, along with guidelines for incorporating them into classroom practice.

2013 / K–12 / 9780325046686 / $20.50

Breaking Barriers: Excellence and Equity for All

Avis Glaze, Ruth Mattingley, Ben Levin

Breaking Barriers examines current research and practice focused on equity and inclusive education. It provides 21 practical, high-impact strategies for school administrators and teachers, and offers targeted interventions for groups of students at risk due to issues of equity and inclusiveness. The companion website features current research, reproducibles and implementation logs.

2011 / K–12 / 9780132749114 / $39.95Bullying Hurts: Teaching Kindness Through Read Alouds and Guided Conversations

Lester Laminack, Reba Wadsworth

This is not your same-old anti-bullying guide. The authors show how the read aloud, a familiar and proven instructional technique, can be used as a powerful way to neutralize bullying behaviours, create community in the classroom.

2012 / K–6 / 9780325043562 / $18.50

Languages for All: How to Support and Challenge Students in a Second Language Classroom

Katy Arnett

Pearson Canada breaks new ground by providing second language teachers with the philosophy, inspiration, and practical guidance on how to effectively employ adaptive, differentiated, and inclusive instruction for diverse student needs. This is the first text of its kind.

2013 / K–12 / 9780133108606 / $39.95

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