New Professional Books

In case you haven't stopped in the library for awhile, the professional collection is now in the front of the library where the reference collection used to be. Here is a selection of some new titles:

• More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy by Janet Allen - very nice flip chart similar to her previous book Tools for Teaching Content Literacy.
• Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While They Read by Adrienne Gear - includes effective strategies to help students be thoughtful readers.
• Nonfiction Reading Power: Teaching Student sHow to Think While They Read all Kinds of Information bu Adrienne Gear - provides lesson and ideas for the five strategies to assist students with informational text.
• 3-Minute Motivators: More than 100 Simple Ways to Reach, Teach, and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined by Kathy Paterson - includes ideas on how to refocus a group, get moving, brainstorm, etc.
• Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver - "a rationale and practical ideas for teaching grammar in the context of writing".
• Getting it Right: Fresh Approaches to Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Correctness by Michael Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm - detailed advice and lessons for providing new, engaging methods to teach grammar in students' own writing.
• Strategies that Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis - "20 completely new comprehension lessons" as well as application of comprehension strategies across the curriculum.
• Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8 by Joann Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher - lesson guides include discussion, how to teach it, and resource material to help students improve their nonfiction writing.
• Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12 by Kelly Gallagher - teach your students to be able to tackle challenging texts following the strategies in this book.
• Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8 by Ralph Fletcher and Joann Portalupi - 95 practical lessons on topics including character, ending, stronger verbs, and much more.
• If This is Social Studies, Why Isn't It Boring by Stephanie Steffey and Wendy Hood - 23 teachers explain what has worked for their students using a holistic approach.
• Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary Grades 4-12 by Janet Allen - "recent research and key content-area teaching strategies show teachers how to help students understand academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles...".
• Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 by Cris Tovani - to help your students understand complex concepts, the answer is yes. Use this book to guide you as you teach your students reading comprehension strategies.
• Raising a Digital Child: A Digital Citizenship Handbook for Parents by Mike Ribble - this book is a guide to help parents with raising ethical, responsible users of today's technology.
• Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher - "specific steps are provided to stop the downward spiral in reading". Stop the loss of another generation of readers.
• Choice Words: How our Language Affects Children's Learning by Peter Johnston - examples of "apparently ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the classroom...demonstrates how the things we say (and don't say) have surprising consequesnces for what children learn."