Stenhouse Publishers: 72 books
Mechanically Inclined
Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential...
Everyday Editing
Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Editing is often seen as one item on a list of steps in the writing process-usually put somewhere near the end, and often completely crowded out of writer's workshop. Too many times daily editing lessons happen in a vacuum, with no relationship to what students are writing.In Everyday Editing,...
Revision Decisions
Talking Through Sentences and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Revision is often a confusing and difficult process for students, but its also the most important part of the writing process. If students leave our classrooms not knowing how to move a piece of writing forward, weve failed them. Revision Decisions will help teachers develop the skills students need...
by Jeff Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Whether writing a blog entry or a high-stakes test essay, fiction or nonfiction, short story or argumentation, students need to know certain things in order to write effectively. In 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, Jeff Anderson focuses on developing the concepts and application of ten essential...
Dream Wakers
Mentor Texts That Celebrate Latino Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
“There is power that resides in outstanding culturally diverse literature—a power that has the potential to engage students in reading and teach them about the art and craft of writing.”—Ruth Culham We dream of a time when all students will be confident, capable readers and writers. When...
Small Steps, Big Changes
Eight Essential Practices for Transforming Schools Through Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
During the past two decades, Chris Confer and Marco Ramirez have worked to deepen and improve mathematics instruction at schools around the country. Wherever they go, they find the raw ingredients for success already present: "The potential for positive change lies within each school. Abundance is...
Take the Journey
Teaching American History Through Place-Based Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In Take the Journey, author, historian, and educator James Percoco invites you and your students to the places where many events in American history happened. The Journey Through Hallowed Ground is a 180-mile National Heritage area encompassing such historic sites as the Gettysburg battlefield and Thomas...
by Linda Dacey, Rebeka Eston Salemi, Kathleen O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
To help students communicate their mathematical thinking, many teachers have created classrooms where math talk has become a successful and joyful instructional practice. Building on that success, the ideas in Why Write in Math Class? help students construct, explore, represent, refine, connect, and...
Strategies That Work, 3rd edition
Teaching Comprehension for Engagement, Understanding, and Building Knowledge, Grades K-8
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In this new edition of their groundbreaking book Strategies That Work, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking they’ve done since the second edition came out a decade ago and offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged,...
Readicide
How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.
In the Best Interest of Students
Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
What is in the best interest of our students? Is it teaching to the newest standards movement, like the Common Core? Teaching that prepares students to take a test? Or is it something more meaningful and authentic? In his new book, In the Best Interest of Students, Kelly Gallagher notes that there are...
Reading Reasons
Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
"Why should I read?" Can your students answer that question? Do they have trouble seeing the importance that reading may have in their lives? Are they lacking motivation, both in academic and recreational reading? Do you think you can effectively teach reading strategies if students don't understand...
Write Like This
Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high...
Accessible Algebra
30 Modules to Promote Algebraic Reasoning, Grades 7-10
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Accessible Algebra is for any pre-algebra or algebra teacher who wants to provide a rich and fulfilling experience to students as they develop new ways of thinking through and about algebra. Each of the thirty lessons in this book identifies and addresses a focal domain and standard in algebra, then...