Books for Professors

The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop

Newbery Medal-winning author Kwame Alexander shows how to shake up the traditional writing workshop to make writing fun again. Using his techniques and strategies, you'll invigorate the writing workshop and motivate even the most reluctant writers.

Integrated English Language Development

This powerful resource defines and supports the implementation of Integrated English Language Development (I-ELD) and provides research-based instructional strategies to immerse students in content while promoting oral and written language development.

Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments

This resource defines social and emotional learning and digs into the real work of incorporating SEL in K-12 schools. It makes the connection between research and practical application through real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom.

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom, 2nd Edition

Turn your classrooms into primary source learning environments! With more than 100 digital primary sources, fun activities, and model lesson plans, this resource contains everything needed to successfully teach with primary sources.

Building Vocabulary with Greek and Latin Roots: A Professional Guide to Word Knowledge and Vocabulary Development

This teacher-friendly, 2nd edition resource provides the latest research on how to teach Greek and Latin roots. It includes strategies for improving comprehension, planning instructional routines, and building a word-rich learning environment.

Document-Based Assessment Activities, 2nd Edition

Today's students need opportunities to evaluate sources and use evidence to support their conclusions. This K-12 resource provides both instructional support for teachers as well as a myriad of differentiated learning opportunities for students.

Dive into Close Reading: Strategies for Your 3-5 Classroom

Give grades 3-5 students the tools they need to be successful using this must-have guide. It includes sample lessons showing the key elements of a close reading lesson as well as strategies for analyzing and selecting a text and how to support students.

Information Literacy: Separating Fact from Fiction

Help students achieve digital literacy and become 21st century thinkers in a world of information overload! This resource provides educators with the tools they need to help students actively analyze and assess information from multiple online sources.

Content Area Writing that Rocks (and Works!)

Create an innovative classroom where students develop writing skills by learning strategies based on their interests in technology, social media, and other topics. Students apply these tools and strategies to build college and career readiness skills.

The Reading Intervention Toolkit

This practical resource contains classroom-tested interventions for struggling readers provided in 5-, 10 to 15-, and 30 to 40-minute settings.

50 Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Learners

50 actionable strategies for multilingual learner success in diverse classrooms, backed by robust research.

50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement

Designed to provide K-8 educators with practical, research-backed ideas to enhance the summer school experience, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking innovative and engaging approaches to summer learning.

50 Strategies for Your Virtual Classroom

Virtual teaching here you come! Tackle the school year with the helpful material in this resource book. With a broad range of topics, grade-level variations, and accompanying student work pages, teachers can run their virtual classrooms with confidence.

50 Strategies for Teaching STEAM Skills

Give students concrete opportunities to practice STEAM skills! This teacher resource includes 50 instructional strategies for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Help students develop learning skills through easy-to-implement activities.

50 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Readers

Find concrete ways to support unwilling, unengaged, or struggling readers! This professional resource includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities to help teachers build fluency, stamina, and interest in reluctant readers.

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning (Second Edition)

This invaluable resource provides novice and experienced educators with a pedagogical framework for implementing culturally and linguistically responsive strategies in today's diverse classrooms.

The Everything Guide to Phonics

The Everything Guide to Phonics is a comprehensive resource every teacher needs to implement effective phonics instruction in today's diverse classrooms.

50 Strategies for Cooperative Learning

Unlock the power of collaboration in the classroom! This guide includes easy-to-implement strategies for fostering an academically engaging and emotionally supportive learning environment where every student can thrive.

Usted es el maestro más importante para su hijo: una guía para familias con niños pequeños

Prepare young learners for school with engaging learning experiences! This book provides Spanish-speaking families with ideas for learning opportunities that can happen every day.

Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning, Second Edition

There's Research for That: Your K-5 Literacy Instruction Questions Answered

Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools: Transforming Practices So All Students Feel Accepted & Supported

Written by leaders in the field of neurodiversity-affirming education, Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools empowers educators to help neurodivergent students thrive. It offers an accessible introduction to the history, context, science, and culture around neurodiversity and neurodivergence. Additionally, it contains concrete strategies for building school and classroom environments that support neurodivergent students.Chapters include tables and sidebars to help readers retain and reference important information. This book also provides real-world flavor in the form of vignettes of neurodivergent students and how educators support them. These features allow readers to contextualize what they've learned and feel confident as they implement change.

The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students-and You

The Empathetic Classroom goes beyond typical books on teacher well-being, focusing on holistic mindsets and strategies that support mental health in K-12 teachers and their students alike. Written by a teacher-turned-therapist, this approachable book uniquely offers a mental health perspective on classroom teaching. Maria Munro-Schuster shares tools for focusing on mental health in everyday practiceTeachers will benefit from sound advice on maintaining boundaries, confronting intrusive thoughts, responding to trauma, incorporating play into classrooms, and many other methods of remaining connected to themselves and their students. The conversational tone and relatable stories make this an easy, entertaining read.