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100 Minutes: Making Every Minute Count in the Literacy Block
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Lisa Donohue ISBN-13: 9781551382760 60 pages • 8½ x 11 2012 The skills, strategies, and elements that fit under the "literacy" umbrella can seem overwhelming. In today's classroom, balanced literacy encompasses higher-order thinking; accountable talk; collaborative learning; digital and media literacy; as well as modelled, guided, and independe...

59 Reasons to Write: Mini-lessons, prompts, and inspiration for teachers
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Kate Messner ISBN-13: 9781625310033 224 pages • 7½ x 9¼ 2015 In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be writers themselves. Only by engaging in the real work of writing can teachers become a part of the community they want to create for their students. This inspiring book offers mini-lessons, writing prompts, and bursts of motivati...

A Guided Inquiry Approach to Teaching the Humanities Research Project (Libraries Unlimited Guided Inquiry)
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Randell K. Schmidt, Emilia N. Giordano, and Geoffrey M. Schmidt ISBN-13: 9781440834387 192 pages • 8½ x 11 2015 Aligned with the Common Core, this book enables teachers and librarians to develop lessons and workshops as well as to teach high school students how to research and write a humanities paper using a guided inquiry approach. Being ab...

Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics
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edited by Andy Tattersall ISBN-13: 9781783300105 224 pages • 6 x 9 Year Published: 2016 Alternative metrics for measuring scholarly impact from social networks such as Twitter and blogs to online platforms such as Mendeley, ResearchGate and Altmetrics.org, altmetrics are having a huge impact on how academics and researchers build profiles and sh...

Attention-Grabbing Tools: For Involving Parents in their Children's Learning
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Jane Baskwill ISBN-13: 9781551382838 112 pages • 8½ x 11 2013 In this age cell phones and social media, of sound bites of eyewitness recordings, the very definition of communication is changing. This book explores a wide range of tools—from take-home information and materials, through parent conferences and learning nights, to digital and soc...
Balanced Literacy Essentials: Weaving Theory Into Practice for Successful Instruction In Reading, Writing, and Talk

Balanced Literacy Essentials: Weaving Theory Into Practice for Successful Instruction In Reading, Writing, and Talk
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Michelann Parr and Terry Campbell ISBN-13: 9781551382753 160 pages • 8½ x 11 Year Published: 2012 This practical book offers teachers a comprehensive approach to literacy instruction that puts students at the centre of the learning process. Based on the latest learning theories, the book provides: an overview of the nuts and bolts of readin...

Becoming an Embedded Librarian: Making Connections in the Classroom
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Michelle Reale ISBN-13: 9780838913673 128 pages 6 x 9 2015 Embedded librarianship is _not one size fits all,î yet many books on the subject treat it in a cold, objective manner that doesn’t adequately communicate how becoming an embedded librarian actually works in the real world. Here, Reale shares her own university classroom experiences t...
Books as Bridges

Books as Bridges
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Jane Baskwill ISBN-13: 9781551382500 176 pages • 8½ x 11 2010 This remarkable book explores the many advantages of using "touchstone" books to consider four key aspects of literacy—predictable structures, nonfiction, comprehension, and imagination and language play. Each of these aspects is described in terms of a series of strategies, which ar...

Canadian Copyright in Schools & School Libraries: A Primer
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John Tooth ISBN-13: 9780888023452 78 pages • 8½ x 11 2015 Canadian Copyright in Schools and School Libraries addresses copyright issues that typically arise on those educational settings. The goal is to provide some direction to help school staff across Canada answer copyright questions in their daily work. This publication offers some focus fo...

Caring Hearts & Critical Minds: Literature, Inquiry, and Social Responsibility
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Steven Wolk ISBN-13: 9781571108600 260 pages • 8 x 10 2013 Discover new ways to integrate inquiry learning, exciting contemporary literature, and teaching for social responsibility across the curriculum. The author take us step-by-step through the process of designing an inquiry-based literature unit and then provides 5 full units used in rea...

Caught in the Middle: Reading and Writing in the Transition Years
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David Booth ISBN-13: 9781551382654 176 pages • 8½ x 11 2011 A fully revised second edition of the classic Reading and Writing in the Middle Years, Caught in the Middle offers teachers a richly textured picture of the world of middle-school students. It describes who these students are, explains why fostering their voice is important, and disc...
Classroom Routines for Real Learning: Daily Management Exercises That Empower and Engage Students

Classroom Routines for Real Learning: Daily Management Exercises That Empower and Engage Students
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Jennifer Harper and Kathryn O'Brien ISBN-13: 9781551382975 128 pages • 8½ x 11 2015 Classroom routines are the sequences and order that students are asked to follow, be it walking in line through the hall, or answering "present" when their name is called. Established routines run themselves, and are the well-oiled machines that help a classroom...