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Powerful Thinking
- $32.95
Powerful Thinking
Engaging Readers, Building Knowledge, and Nudging Learning in Elementary Classrooms
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An inspiring book to help teachers shift their beliefs and “stretch” their thinking around reading comprehension, literacy instruction, and content-area learning. Using the key concepts and strategies introduced in her ground-breaking book, Reading Power, Adrienne Gear shows teachers practical ways to create a “culture of thinking” that can be integrated into all areas of learning. Using knowledge-rich texts as tools, Adrienne shares how read-alouds can be used in content areas to support literacy skills and build knowledge. This timely book offers classroom-tested lessons and anchor books to create a content-rich learning environment that helps strengthen student learning and knowledge-building across the curriculum.PLEASE NOTE: Due to overwhelming demand, Powerful Thinking is SOLD OUT and is currently being REPRINTED. To secure your copy, order now, and your book will be shipped by mid-May.- Order Now
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Reading Power
- $28.95
Reading Power
Teaching Students To Think While They Read Revised & Expanded Edition
Ten years ago, Reading Power was launched in an elementary school in Vancouver. Now, it has evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction being implemented across Canada, the US, UK, Sweden, and China.
This ground-breaking approach showed teachers how to help students think while they read - connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform. Since the publication of her book, Reading Power, Adrienne Gear has continued to reflect on and refine her understanding of metacognition, comprehension instruction, and the reading power strategies.
In this revised and expanded second edition of her popular book, Adrienne shares this new understanding and offers teachers new ideas, new lessons, and of course, new anchor books to support the Reading Power lessons.
An ideal resource for teachers familiar with this strategic approach to teaching reading or those teachers looking for new ways to connect thinking with reading.
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Powerful Poetry
- $28.95
- The power of poetry is at your fingertips! Experience poetry like never before with this comprehensive book by BC educator and author Adrienne Gear. This book offers everything you need to bring poetry to life in your classroom and help your students experience the beauty, power, and pleasure of a poem. Grounded in classroom practice, this practical resource includes everything you need to integrate the power of poetry into your classroom including anchor books, anchor poems, step-by-step lessons, student samples, reproducible templates, graphic organizers and assessment rubrics.
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Nonfiction Reading Power
- $28.95
Nonfiction Reading Power
Teaching students how to think while reading in all subject areas
Based on using the best children's books to motivate students, this remarkable resource shows teachers how to encourage students to recognize that reading is about using the brain to zoom in, question/infer, find the main idea, make connections, and transform what's on the page. It offers teaching strategies that are particularly relevant for information texts, along with ways to incorporate more nonfiction into the classroom.
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Nonfiction Writing Power
- $28.95
Nonfiction Writing Power
Nonfiction writing is important in a student's school life and it is important - a skill that they will use throughout their lives. The majority of our daily reading and writing experience is made up of nonfiction, and students are writing nonfiction long before they are taught how to do it in the classroom. Nonfiction Writing Power is designed to help teachers develop a writing program that focuses on the different forms of nonfiction writing.
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Writing Power
- $28.95
Writing Power
Teaching Writing Strategies that Engage Thinking
Writing Power is a practical and thoughtful resource that shows teachers how to encourage students to consider the reader's thinking as they write. Using the same five thinking strategies from Adrienne Gear's groundbreaking Reading Power books Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform young writers will learn how to engage and invite their readers' thinking through their writing.
Writing Power guides teachers through a series of lessons focusing on each of the strategies and includes scripted, sequential lessons, recommended anchor books, reproducibles, and assessment rubrics.
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Powerful Understanding
- $28.95
Powerful Understanding
Helping Students Explore, Question, and Transform Their Thinking about Themselves and the World Around Them
In these challenging times, teaching children to think critically and reflectively AND be compassionate, responsible, and caring citizens at the same time is a tall order.
Powerful Understanding explores effective ways to build social-emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read, and reflect on their learning as they develop into stronger readers and learners. Strategic and critical thinking strategies revolve around core anchor books that help integrate thinking into everything you teach - from social responsibility to immigration, to life cycles.
This highly readable book includes a wealth of classroom examples and extensive hands-on activities designed to help students to think more deeply, learn more widely, and develop a more powerful understanding of what it means to be a responsible and compassionate person.
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Powerful Writing Structures
- $28.95
Powerful Writing Structures: Brain Pocket Strategies to Support a Year-Long Writing Program
This timely book uses thinking structures to deepen student writing.
Powerful Writing Structures revolves around “brain pockets” to help students become familiar with the qualities of different writing forms. They learn to access memory pockets for personal writing, fact pockets for writing nonfiction, and imagination pockets for story writing. Based on extensive classroom testing, this comprehensive approach to developing a balanced year-long writing program includes tips for implementing weekly writing practice, effective mini-lessons, and using different forms of writing in the content areas. From writing goals to writing joy, Powerful Writing Structures helps teachers guide students through the skills, the structures, the language, and the beauty of effective writing.- Buy Now
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Powerful Readers
- $28.95
Powerful Readers
Thinking Strategies to Guide Literacy Instruction in Secondary Classrooms
At any age or grade level, powerful readers are those who are aware of their thinking as they read. Presenting a balance of theory and practical lessons, Powerful Readers demonstrates that instruction in the key strategies of connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and transforming can help students develop their reading skills and get more out of their work with fiction and nonfiction. Step-by-step lessons for introducing and using the strategies, connections to literary devices, and reading lists for each strategy are all part of this valuable resource.
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