Amy Benjamin: 27 books
Infusing Vocabulary Into the Reading-Writing Workshop
A Guide for Teachers in Grades K-8
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Learn how to make vocabulary instruction more effective by making better use of mini-lessons and word study time to achieve durable learning about words and how they work. In this essential new book, literacy expert Amy Benjamin presents her 4E model (Exposure, Exploration, Engagement, Energy) for...
Infusing Grammar Into the Writer's Workshop
A Guide for K-6 Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Help your students improve their language skills and become stronger readers and writers. In this timely book, literacy experts Amy Benjamin and Barbara Golub offer best practices for fortifying the writer’s workshop model with meaningful, relevant instruction in grammar.
The book answers...
Differentiated Instruction Using Technology
A Guide for Middle & HS Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Like Amy Benjamin’s other books, this one is easy to read and simple to implement. It demonstrates that you can manage the complexities of differentiated instruction – and save time -- by using technology as you teach. It showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies which are easy to apply in your own classroom.
Focus on Text
Tackling the Common Core Reading Standards, Grades 4-8
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
As schools shift to the Common Core, many English language arts teachers are left with questions about how their classrooms should look. Is fiction out? Can I still do strategy instruction? Does close reading mean deliberating on each word? Finally, there’s a resource with all of these answers and...
Teaching Grammar
What Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Instill grammar fundamentals using lessons that stick! In this book, authors Amy Benjamin and Joan Berger share procedures for teaching grammar effectively and dynamically, in ways that appeal to students and teachers alike. Ideal for teachers just beginning their work in grammar instruction, this...
Vocabulary at the Core
Teaching the Common Core Standards
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Vocabulary at the Core, the expanded and updated edition of Vocabulary at the Center (© 2009), is the definitive guide for every teacher engaged in helping students learn essential academic vocabulary. In clear, precise language, Benjamin and Crow explain why vocabulary is at the core of all learning...
Writing Put to the Test
Teaching for the High Stakes Essay
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
This book helps educators improve students’ ability to write clear, coherent essays in response to on-demand writing prompts. While it focuses on students’ abilities to succeed at on-demand writing, it also promotes the teaching of writing as an expression of art and self. For grades 4 -12, it...
Differentiated Instruction
A Guide for Elementary School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades K through 6, it showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies. Differentiated...
Differentiated Instruction
A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades 6 through 12, this book showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies.
Differentiated...
by Amy Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book provides step-by-step procedures, student hand-outs, and samples of student work.
Formative Assessment for English Language Arts
A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
This book demonstrates how formative assessments, unlike standardized tests, provide the kind of communication between teachers and students that help teachers make instructional decisions to improve student performance.
But I'm Not a Reading Teacher
Strategies for Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
This book shows content area teachers in middle and high schools how to boost student achievement by including lessons and strategies which focus on students' reading comprehension without detracting from content area focus. These mini-lessons and strategies are research-based and address the specific...
Math In Plain English
Literacy Strategies for the Mathematics Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Do word problems and math vocabulary confuse students in your mathematics classes? Do simple keywords like "value" and "portion" seem to mislead them?
Many words that students already know can have a different meaning in mathematics. To grasp that difference, students need...
by Amy Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Do you spend entirely too much time correcting your students' papers? Do your students' essays and term papers take side trips to nowhere? Is their writing riddled with mechanical errors? Do their lab reports and essays lack specificity and clarity?
Writing in the Content Areas, Second Edition...
12