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Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties provides a comprehensive, practical approach that details—and illustrates through a wealth of examples—how to assess students and how to use assessment results to screen students, monitor progress, and provide effective instruction. -
With a new focus on 21st century skills, Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice for Effective Standards-Based Instruction shows teachers how to create high-quality assessments of every kind. -
This popular course provides comprehensive, balanced, practical literacy instruction for all students in today’s increasingly diverse classrooms, especially students from culturally diverse backgrounds and those struggling with reading and writing. -
The Daily 5 provides a way for teachers to structure literacy and math for teachers to create student independence and allow for individualized attention and one-on-one. -
Built on a rigorous research base and to emphasize student diversity, equity, and inclusion, The New Classroom Instruction That Works provides a streamlined focus on the 14 instructional strategies proven to promote deep, meaningful, and lasting learning:- Cognitive interest cues
- Student goal setting and monitoring
- Vocabulary instruction
- Strategy instruction and modeling
- Visualizations and concrete examples
- High-level questions and student explanations
- Guided initial application with formative feedback
- Peer-assisted consolidation of learning
- Retrieval practice
- Spaced and mixed independent practice
- Targeted support
- Cognitive writing
- Guided investigations
- Structured problem solving
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The Reading Mind explains the fascinating journey from seeing letters, then words, sentences, with the author highlighting each step along the way. This course covers every aspect of reading, starting with two fundamental processes: reading by sight and reading by sound. It also addresses reading comprehension at all levels, from reading for understanding at early levels to inferring deeper meaning from texts and novels in high school. The course considers the undeniable connection between reading and writing, as well as the important role of motivation as it relates to reading. It tackles the intersection of our rapidly changing technology and its effects on learning to read and reading. Click Here to purchase the text direct from the publisher Click Here to preview the syllabus -
Understanding the Math We Teach and How to Teach It (5 credits) EDCT 5792 This course focuses on the big ideas and practices in mathematics, deepening understanding and content knowledge. Learn how to teach those big ideas using a student-centered, problem-solving approach, and anticipate student thinking and explore effective tools, models, and rich mathematical questions that nudge student thinking forward. Understanding the Math We Teach offers a well-founded base of mathematical knowledge, leading to better math instruction that captures students’ interest. Click Here to Buy Understanding the Math We Teach Direct from the Publisher Click Here to preview the course syllabus