Stenhouse Publishers: 72 books
Good Thinking
Teaching Argument, Persuasion, and Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
A large part of our everyday communication involves argumentation and reasoning—for example, when we want to persuade others, make good purchasing decisions, or analyze the messages we receive from advertisers and politicians. But how well do we prepare students for these tasks? Can they critically...
Digitally Speaking
How to Improve Student Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
All teachers at all grade levels and in all subject areas assign speaking activities-for example, read-alouds, book reports, class discussions, lab results, research presentations, and dialogues in a foreign language. Effective communication is an essential skill in modern society, and the Common Core...
Patterns of Power
Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language, Grades 1-5
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca take you into primary and intermediate classrooms where students are curious about language, engage with the world around them, and notice and experiment with the conventions all writers use. Instead of chanting grammar rules or completing countless...
Beat Boredom
Engaging Tuned-Out Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Are your students bored in class? According to research, a majority of American high school students report being bored in class and fewer than 5% claimed that they were rarely bored during a typical day in school.
Former journalist and veteran teacher Martha Rush decided this would not do for her...
Deeper Reading
Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they think one reading of a work is more than enough? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface-level, and are they frequently unwilling or unable to discover the deeper meaning found in multi-layered works? Do you...
Literacy Essentials
Engagement, Excellence and Equity for All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
How do we ensure that all students are engaged each day in meaningful, challenging, and joyful work and have equal opportunity to learn?
That is the central question Regie Routman addresses in Literacy Essentials: Engagement, Excellence, and Equity for All Learners. Her response is that such...
Fair Isn't Always Equal, 2nd edition
Assessment & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Differentiated instruction is a nice idea, but what happens when it comes to assessing and grading students? What's both fair and leads to real student learning? An internationally recognized expert on grading practices, Rick Wormeli first examined these questions 10 years ago in the first edition...
Activate
Deeper Learning through Movement, Talk, and Flexible Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Discover what happens when your students step out of their daily routines and activate their engagement. Author Katherine Mills Hernandez argues that movement, talk, and the physical environment of the classroom all contribute and influence students’ learning. The ideas in Activate! will help you...
The Writing Thief
Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
It's been said that good writers borrow while great writers steal. Writing thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief—and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves,...
Practicing Presence
Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Most teachers enter the field of education to make a difference in children’s lives. But many end up, as author Lisa Lucas puts it, “tired, wired, and running in circles.” This leads to many new teachers abandoning the profession or to burnout among veteran teachers.
Drawing upon her own experiences,...
Little Readers, Big Thinkers
Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Little Readers, Big Thinkers: Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades
Young learners are full of questions and wonderings, so much so that sometimes they need a guide for their curiosity. With Amy Stewart’s manageable approach to close reading, you’ll be able to harness the big thinking we...
by Doug Buehl
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Being literate in an academic discipline means more than simply being able to read and comprehend text; it means you can think, speak, and write as a historian, scientist, mathematician, or artist. Doug Buehl strips away the one-size-fits-all approach to content area literacy and presents a much-needed...
Close Writing
Developing Purposeful Writers in Grades 2-6
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
How closely do your students read their writing? What are the implications for those who do and those who don’t? During her work in classrooms, literacy coach Paula Bourque noticed that students who read their own writing closely are engaged in their work, write fluently, are able to produce lengthy...
by Doug Buehl
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Educators across content areas have turned to Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning for almost two decades. This fully updated fourth edition delivers rich, practical, research-based strategies that readers have found invaluable in the context of today's classrooms.
Doug has written all-new...