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Text Structures From Nursery Rhymes: Teaching Reading and Writing to Young Children
The Learning Power Approach: Teaching Learners to Teach Themselves
GRETCHEN BERNABEI, KAYLA SHOOK AND JAYNE HOVER
GUY CLAXTON
• How do we shape our youngest students, who often are just learning how to hold a pencil, into capable writers within the span of a single school year?
The purpose of this book is provide guidance for how to construct the incubator of normal lessons so that thoughtful minds are naturally grown.
• Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes offers the solution: a clear and actionable framework for guiding young students to write successfully in any style, from narrative to descriptive to persuasive.
The Learning Power Approach series will:
• The key to the strategy lies in using familiar text structures to break down a story into its main components — for example, “Where I was,” “Who I saw,” and “What I thought” — in order to immediately thrust students into the role of the writer. • This groundbreaking book provides 53 lessons, each centered around a classic nursery rhyme. • Also included are six, dry-erase markable paper dolls that work seamlessly with the book’s pedagogical framework to make storytelling even more immersive for children. Corwin Literacy. Pbk | 280pp | 9781506387963 | 2017.10 Corwin | A$54.99 | NZ$63 279x216mm | USA
The Reflection Guide to The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching JIM KNIGHT, JENNIFER KNIGHT AND CLINTON CARLSON
• Every decade or so a book comes along that has such a profound impact on professional practice that it launches a movement. Such was the case ten years ago with Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching.
• Distil the commonalities to create a ‘broad church’ of approaches that focus deliberately, systematically, effectively and demonstrably on building ‘learning character’ alongside the acquisition of knowledge and the pursuit of grades. • Include practical illustrations and strategies from practitioners. Guy Claxton is Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education. His current work focuses on the development of infused approaches to the cultivation of positive lifelong learning dispositions in schools. The resulting ‘Building Learning Power’ approach has influenced practice in schools throughout the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Pbk | 240pp | 9781506388700 | 2017.11 Corwin | A$43.99 | NZ$49.99 229x152mm | USA
A Practical Guide to Happiness in Children and Teens on the Autism Spectrum: A Positive Psychology Approach VICTORIA HONEYBOURNE
• While there are many books on treating mental health problems in autism, this is one of the precious few on preventing it by focusing on happiness.
• Now, it’s about to happen again with The Impact Cycle and this The Reflection Guide to The Impact Cycle, in which Jim shares his latest thinking, and advances an all-new instructional coaching cycle to help teachers and, in turn, their students improve in clear, measurable ways.
• Includes a broad range of individual and group activities suitable for special and mainstream classrooms to promote happiness and wellbeing. • Focuses on promoting self-acceptance with autism, rather than trying to make people ‘less autistic’.
• What makes this Reflection Guide the perfect companion to The Impact Cycle? Because it functions almost like a daily planner for reaching, even exceeding, your coaching goals. Spb | 120pp | 9781544308753 | 2017.09 Corwin | A$36.99 | NZ$41.99 254x178mm | USA
• Draw on an unusually wide range of cognitive, social and neuroscientific research, highlighting the importance of emotion, embodiment, intuition, visualisation and collaboration, as well as resilience and critical thinking.
• Most young people on the autism spectrum experience poor mental health. • The author is a well-respected trainer on the topic, and she also has Asperger Syndrome herself. Pbk | 208pp | 9781785923470 | 2017.11 Jessica Kingsley Publishers | A$32.99 | NZ$36.99 229x152mm | UK
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LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards 4ed
Adolescent Literacies: A Handbook of PracticeBased Research (New in PB)
KEN O’CONNOR
KATHLEEN HINCHMAN AND DEBORAH APPLEMAN
This book will show you how to implement standards-based grading practices that help students succeed. Classroom assessment methods should help students develop to their full potential, but meshing traditional grading practices with students’ achievement on standards has been difficult. Making lasting changes to grading practices requires both knowledge and willpower.
Showcasing cutting-edge findings on adolescent literacy teaching and learning, this unique handbook is grounded in the realities of students’ daily lives. It highlights research methods and instructional approaches that capitalize on adolescents’ interests, knowledge, and new literacies. Attention is given to how race, gender, language, and other dimensions of identity--along with curriculum and teaching methods--shape youths’ literacy development and engagement. The volume explores innovative ways that educators are using a variety of multimodal texts, from textbooks to graphic novels and digital productions.
Discover eight guidelines for good grading, recommendations for practical applications, and suggestions for implementing new grading practices. Pbk | 400pp | 9781506334158 | 2017.10 Corwin | A$78 | NZ$88 279x216mm | USA
Pbk | 501pp | 9781462534524 | 2017.10 The Guilford Press | A$88 | NZ$99 254x178mm | USA
EDUCATION Parent Voice: Being in Tune With Your Kids and Their School RUSSELL QUAGLIA, KRISTINE FOX AND |DEBORAH YOUNG
This book aims to provide parents the tools and motivation to inspire their child to reach their aspirations, including words of inspiration, entertaining anecdotes, and information grounded in research that will help parents become more effectively engaged and involved in their children’s education. Pbk | 144pp | 9781506360102 | 2017.10 Corwin | A$31.99 | NZ$34.99 197x140mm | USA
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP Leadership Dialogues II: Leadership in times of change (With CD-ROM) DAVE HARRIS AND JOHN WEST-BURNHAM
Following on from the bestselling Leadership Dialogues (9781845909062), Leadership Dialogues II examines more themes crucial to the effective education of young people in schools. This is not a book containing all the answers, rather it is a book containing many of the questions that will help school leaders work with their colleagues to find the answers, both for their own schools and for the communities in which they work. Each of the themes in this book has five sections: each of which has an outline showing why the topic is important, some key quotes to engage thinking, a ten-minute read to provoke debate (available in PDF form on the accompanying CD-ROM for circulation to the rest of the leadership team), some questions for the team to consider and at least two resources for each section. The resources are often in table form, enabling you to use the materials with little extra preparation. All you need to do is think, discuss and then act. Pbk | 216pp | 9781785832567 | 2017.11 Crown House Publishing | A$52.99 | NZ$59.99 222x182mm | UK
Think Big With Think Alouds, Grades K-5: A Three-Step Planning Process That Develops Strategic Readers MOLLY NESS
I’m guessing that those two are planning a surprise. . . . The author keeps mentioning the storm because she wants us to think that the character’s upset. . . . Wait—yikes, I gotta go back and reread because I’m not getting this part. . . . These are the flickering thoughts of a strategic reader. If only we could bottle all these mental moves and pour them into the minds of students, then readers’ achievement would grow exponentially. In Think Big With Think Alouds, Molly Ness delivers a process that comes close to bottling that magic. Pbk | 280pp | 9781506364964 | 2017.08 Corwin | A$66 | NZ$74 232x187mm | USA
No More Fake Reading: Merging the Classics With Independent Reading to Create Joyful, Lifelong Readers BERIT GORDON
For middle- and high-school teachers, it’s one of today’s most vexing problems: How do you motivate students with varied interests and little appetite for classic literature to stop faking their way through texts and start advancing as skilled, engaged readers? Independent reading is an important part of the answer, but it’s just that — a part of the whole. In this groundbreaking book, Berit Gordon offers the complete solution, a blended model that combines the benefits of classic literature with the motivational power of choice reading. With the blended model, teachers lead close examinations of key passages from classic texts, guiding students to an understanding of important reading strategies they can transfer to their choice books. Teachers gain a platform for demonstrating the critical reading skills students so urgently require, and students thrive on reading what they want to read. Corwin Literacy. Pbk | 288pp | 9781506365510 | 2017.08 Corwin | A$57.99 | NZ$66 232x187mm | USA
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MATHEMATICS Mathematical Argumentation in Middle School: The What, Why, and How: A Step-byStep Guide With Activities, Games, and Lesson Planning Tools JENNIFER KNUDSEN, HARRIETTE STEVENS, TERESA LARAMELOY, HEE-JOON KIM AND NIKKI SCHECHTMAN
Want your middle schoolers to intelligently engage with mathematical ideas? Look no further. This research-based gem will help you foster the critical reasoning and argumentation skills every student needs for intelligent discourse within our modern society. Learn how to bring mathematical argumentation alive in your classroom—all within a thoroughly explained four-part model that covers generating cases, conjecturing, justifying, and concluding. Filled with content-focused and classroom-ready games, activities, vignettes, sample tasks, and links to online tools and a rich companion website, this innovative guide will help you: •Immediately engage students argumentation activities; •Plan lessons that argumentation;
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•Help students explore mathematical ideas and take ownership of their learning; •Facilitate deep mathematical understanding; •Promote students’ precise use of mathematical language to construct, justify, and critique mathematical ideas and mathematical statements or the arguments of others; •Encourage logical, clear connections between abstract ideas for enhanced 21st century skills. Pbk | 184pp | 9781506376691 | 2017.09 Corwin | A$57.99 | NZ$66 279x216mm | USA
SCHOOL COUNSELLING How Sprinkle the Pig Escaped the River of Tears: A Story About Being Apart From Loved Ones
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ANNE WESTCOTT AND C C ALICIA HU
Sprinkle the pig has moved to a new house, with a new family, but he misses his old family. On his first day at school his classmate yells at him, and everything gets too much. He cries and cries, and soon the tears become a river and carry him away! Wise monkey spots Sprinkle, but he is too far away. Can he help Sprinkle to find hidden strengths to survive the river of tears?
Bomji and Spotty’s Frightening Adventure: A Story About How to Recover From a Scary Experience ANNE WESTCOTT AND C C ALICIA HU
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One sunny day, Bomji the rabbit and his friend Spotty the cat meet something very scary while picking flowers in the woods. The friends manage to escape, but afterwards Bomji just doesn’t feel safe anymore. His body feels a bit different and he starts to have bad dreams. His friend Spotty is worried about Bomji - how can his friend be helped? Luckily, wise Teacher Owl is there for them. This therapeutic picture book allows children and adults to talk about a frightening experience. The story is followed by helpful guidance for adults on how to help their child. It explores how your body and how you feel is affected by scary experiences, and explains how you can use your body to help to recover too. Age Range: 4-10 years. 12 full colour illustrations. Market: Primary school teachers, therapists, school counselors, child psychiatrists, child psychologists, child psychotherapists, social workers, parents, guardians. Hidden Strengths Therapeutic Children’s Books. Pbk | 32pp | 9781785927706 | 2017.11 Jessica Kingsley Publishers | A$17.99 | NZ$19.99 279x216mm | UK
How Little Coyote Found his Secret Strength: A Story About How to Get Through Hard Times ANNE WESTCOTT AND C C ALICIA HU
In a deep dark forest, Little Coyote grows up with tough gang of big strong coyotes. They are cruel, call him names and order him about all day long. Little Coyote is too small to run away or to stand up for himself, so he learns to do what he’s told and makes his body small so nobody notices him. Then, one day he goes on an adventure and ends up discovering new hidden strengths that he never knew he had.
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This therapeutic picture book is written to help children aged 4-10 and adults to talk about difficult experiences growing up, and explores how they can affect how your body feels and reacts to things. It is followed by easy to read advice for adults on how to help your child. 12 full colour illustrations. Hidden Strengths Therapeutic Children’s Books. “Practical and accessible ... This important and timely series is a must read for anyone who has a need for trauma literacy.” — Nicola McClung, Ph.D., Mother and Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of San Francisco Pbk | 32pp | 9781785927713 | 2017.11 Jessica Kingsley Publishers | A$17.99 | NZ$19.99 279x216mm | UK
This therapeutic picture book is written to help children aged 4-10 and adults to talk about being separated from or losing loved ones, and explores how difficult experiences can affect how your body feels and reacts to things. It is followed by easy to read advice for adults on how to help your child. 12 full colour illustrations. Hidden Strengths Therapeutic Children’s Books. Pbk | 32pp | 9781785927690 | 2017.11 Jessica Kingsley Publishers | A$17.99 | NZ$19.99 279x216mm | UK
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SOCIAL SKILLS AND BEHAVIOUR Restorative Peer Mediation for Schools: A Manual for Training and Implementation OZ Authors Developed for schools exploring the use of restorative approaches to conflict resolution, this manual explains how to set up and run a restorative peer mediation programme, to provide students with the skills needed to nurture a climate of care and co-operation. BILL HANSBERRY AND CHRISTIE-LEE HANSBERRY
The manual includes all the information you need on how restorative peer mediation works, and includes an easy to implement training programme with sample scripts, handouts and letter templates to train up peer mediators in your school. Bill and Christie-Lee Hansberry run an education consultancy and live in Adeliade. Pbk | 160pp | 9781785923845 | 2017.10 Jessica Kingsley Publishers | A$41.99 | NZ$46.99 297x210mm | UK
TEACHER RESOURCES Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement HEATHER WOLPERT-GAWRON
Incredible amounts of research have been done to discover what engages students. Middle school teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron decided to conduct her own research project and ask the students themselves. She started with just a simple one-question survey to her class, and was able to boil down their responses into 10 basic engagement strategies. Pbk | 200pp | 9781506363288 | 2017.11 Corwin | A$57.99 | NZ$66 254x178mm | USA
Engagement by Design: Creating Learning Environments Where Students Thrive DOUGLAS FISHER, NANCY FREY, RUSSELL QUAGLIA, DOMINIQUE SMITH AND LISA LANDE
Classroom dynamics are inherently complex, as multifaceted as the personalities in the room, so where should a teacher begin? Engagement by Design gives you a framework for making daily improvements and highlights the opportunities that will bring the greatest benefit in the least amount of time. You’ll learn about relationships, clarity, and challenge. Corwin Literacy.
STEINER EDUCATION A Gift of Wonder: A True Story Showing School as It Should Be
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Can you remember the world of movement, wonder, and intense sensation that you lived in when you were six years old? Does education mean filling a bucket or does it mean lighting a fire? In today’s predominant educational environment, where high-stakes testing and anxiety reign, it’s clear that the goal, though implicit, is to fill buckets. Kim Allsup would like us to start lighting fires—to stop treating children like empty buckets. She sees that the vital essence of education has been sucked out of most schools today; that we must strive, above all, to it bring it back; and that the situation is indeed urgent. Yet this book contains no arguments—it is not a change-of-policy proposal, nor is it a polemical treatise. Kim Allsup is a teacher and a teller of stories, and so this book, to look only at the surface, tells the story of the six years a teacher spent with her class. However, it does much more than that. Funny, poignant, moving, relatable, and finally, life-affirming, and hopeful, this memoir gently shows the way to an educational approach that is worthy of childhood—one rooted in wonder. Pbk | 240pp | 9781584209546 | 2017.08 SteinerBooks | A$37.99 | NZ$44.99 229x152mm | USA
Education for Nonviolence: The Waldorf Way TORIN FINSER
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Education for Nonviolence describes how we can actually do something about our increasingly violent world. Few in the media draw a clear connection between the all-too-frequent tragedies we hear and read about in the news each day and the way as parents and teachers we raise and educate our children. Abstract concepts, rote learning, and standardized tests cannot develop the emotional and social intelligence our children need later in life to build relationships, contribute to society, and succeed in the workplace. The author describes how Waldorf independent and charter schools provide much-needed pathways toward wholeness—sensory and nature-based education; the arts; character education; community building; traditions of hospitality; meeting the needs of boys...to name just a few of the topics covered in this book. Waldorf schools are founded on the social ideals grounded in an abiding belief that our schools can make a crucial difference in building a future society that is less violent, more just, and truly compassionate. Pbk | 158pp | 9781621481980 | 2017.08 SteinerBooks | A$29.99 | NZ$32.99 216x140mm | USA
Pbk | 192pp | 9781506375731 | 2017.09 Corwin | A$64 | NZ$73 232x187mm | USA
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