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Assessment Live!

Nancy Steineke

Pub Date: 9/1/2009 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

"Traditional assessments often reveal very little about students' thinking. Nancy describes how activities that engage students in complex, multifaceted demonstrations of learning can transfer the responsibility to students to reveal the quality of their thinking while seamlessly helping them learn the content more deeply and lastingly."... more

Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction

Alyce Hunter , Barbara King-Shaver

Pub Date: 8/5/2009 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - 12th

“Quite simply, I would love to have had Adolescent Literacy and Differentiated Instruction as a secondary language arts teacher…. The book makes me itch to go back to my secondary classroom to see how I could use contemporary technologies as vehicles for differentiation.” —Carol Ann Tomlinson   As a secondary teacher, Adolescent... more

Ready, Willing, and Able

Dagny Bloland

Pub Date: 9/15/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

Differentiation is a goal for teachers who believe in meeting every child’s needs through responsive teaching. Gifted, talented, and exceptionally conscientious adolescents (GTECs) have needs very different from those of other students—as well as from one another. In Ready, Willing, and Able Dagny Bloland describes how... more

Engaging Adolescent Learners

Releah Lent

Pub Date: 1/20/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 7th - 12th

Steeped in research and chock-full of learning ideas with titles to support instruction, Engaging Adolescent Learners is a must-have for principals, teachers, and staff developers. —Cris Tovani, Author of I Read It, But I Don’t Get It Engagement is the missing link to all student learning, and Releah Lent has nailed... more

Naming the World

Nancie Atwell

Pub Date: 12/19/2005
 Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 6th - 8th

Harnessing the power of poetry, Nancie Atwell's Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons empowers adolescents to make sense of their personal place in the world while honing their critical reading and writing skills. Naming the World's 200+ poems and accompanying five-to-ten-minute lessons are used by Nancie every day to jumpstart... more

Differentiated Instruction in the English Classroom

Alyce Hunter , Barbara King-Shaver

Pub Date: 9/15/2003
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

There's a lot of talk about differentiated instruction, but what is it really? And how does it apply to the middle and secondary English teacher? Differentiated instruction is a recognition that students vary in their needs, interests, abilities, and prior knowledge. It's a springboard from which students work toward the same ends,... more