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Dear Friends,

Six months shy of our two-year anniversary, Corwin Literacy

is already being typecast by educators—and we couldn’t

be happier with it. Word on the street is that we are the

publisher that most “gets it.” Gets the need for classroom and

professional resources that don’t take hours and hours to apply and simplify for

use. Flip through the catalog and our professional books prove this point: topics

that are urgent—written for action.

For starters, take a look at Nancy Boyles’ Lessons & Units for Closer Reading,

Gretchen Bernabei’s Grammar Keepers, Jim Burke and Barry Gilmore’s Academic

Moves for College and Career Readiness, or Leslie Blauman’s Common Core

Companion: Booster Lessons, Grades 3–5—all new to this catalog. Or take another

look at our Common Core Companion series and their new online “Test-Readiness

Survival Kits.”

Also brand-new on the scene? Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey’s Close & Critical

Reading PD Resource Center, which helps us debut our new online presence. Here

you will find focused, collaborative learning experiences that dive deep into a literacy

topic and take teachers every step of the way toward implementing them in their day

to day with students.

Fisher and Frey’s PD Resource Center is just one example of new innovations you

can continue to expect from Corwin LIteracy. Stay tuned . . .

Lisa R. Luedeke Publisher

Welcome to corWin literacy!

CONTENTSProfessional Learning ..................................................................................................... 1

Reading ......................................................................................................................... 2

Writing ......................................................................................................................... 18

College & Career Readiness ......................................................................................... 26

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Fisher & Frey on Close and Critical Reading, Grades K–5 and 6–12:THE PD RESOURCE CENTERDeveloped by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

A LOWER-cost, HIGHER-gains alternative to your current PD plan!

Just how exactly do you build teachers’ capacity for success as reading teachers? With dozens of literacy initiatives tugging at your attention and budget dollars each year, how do you recognize the best value for your time and money, while guaranteeing for teachers the highest-quality learning experience?

You’ll know it when you see it, and you’ll see it at Corwin Literacy’s PD Resource Center. Here, for only $250 per building, you’ll find all the resources and expert guidance you need to direct a yearlong PD initiative focused on close and critical reading—one of the most pressing instructional needs facing K–12 teachers today.

What sets this online coaching platform apart is that it dives deep into a single, urgent topic rather than trying to be all things to all teachers. . . . It’s authored by the foremost authorities on the subject: Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey. . . . It’s designed to put teacher practice at center stage, with a special emphasis on day-to-day implementation to ensure strategies are applied with fidelity and consistency.

For Facilitators• Animplementationguideonhowto

useeachasset,organizethePDtoaccommodatedifferentschedules,supportteachergrowth,andmore

• Thenine90-minutemodules(onesetforK–5andanotherfor6–12)withguidelinesfordeliveringeachsessionandrelatedPPTs,videos,activities,readings,andhand-outs

• Acrashcourseonbestpracticesincoaching,includingawebinar,video,andadditionalreadings

For Teachers• ThecompleteVideoLibrary,including

allsessionfootageandrelatedviewing

• LessonstartersandBring-It-Back-to-the-ClassroomActivitiessotheycanexperimentwithnewskillsandlatercompareresultsinteams

• Session-by-sessionhand-outs,relatedreadings,ProtocolsforAnalyzingStudentWorkwithsamples,andguidelinesforbuildingfollow-uplessons

ThisisonePDexperienceyoucan’taffordtomissandawaytoguaranteefidelityofimplementationteacherbyteacher,schoolbyschool,districtbydistrict.

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No doubt since the cave paintings of prehistoric times, humans have asked questions to make sense of the message. So what could possibly be new about posing questions about text?

Plenty . . . and with TDQ, Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey reveal it all. After one quick read, you will have learned all the very best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading . . . and the big understandings they can yield, especially when executed the Fisher and Frey way. But that’s just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include illustrative video, actual texts and questions, examples from across content areas, and an online professional learning guide, making the two volumes of TDQ a potent professional development tool across all of K–12.

The genius of TDQ is the way Fisher and Frey break down the process into four cognitive pathways that help teachers “organize the journey through a text” and frame an extended discussion around it. Step by step, this approach ensures that in every close reading lesson, students are guided to consider explicit and implied meanings, and deeply analyze and appreciate various aspects of a text, especially those that may be challenging or confusing.

•Whatdoesthetextsay?(generalunderstandingsandkeydetails)

•Howdoesthetextwork?(vocabulary,structure,andauthor’scraft)

•Whatdoesthetextmean?(logicalinferencesandintertextualconnections)

•Whatdoesthetextinspireyoutodo?(write,investigate,present,debate)

The cool thing? These questions ignite students’ engagement and discussion because they strategically lead students to a place of understanding where explicit and implied meanings and interpretations can be debated. All in all, there’s no better resource to cultivate students’ capacity for independent reading and incisive thinking.

To preview sample chapters, visit www.corwin.com/literacy.

DOUG FISHER & NANCY FREYOn how text-dependent questions can inspire close and critical thinking

Grades K–5: $27.95, 256 pages + video, D15208-978-1-4833-3131-7

Grades 6–12: $27.95, 336 pages + video, D15208-978-1-4833-3137-9

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THE FISHER & FREY PD COLLABORATIVE

Follow the lead of other major districts and invite Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and their team of associates on site to deliver a long-term customized professional development experience. Between the two of them, Fisher and Frey have led more than 1,000 in-services and written 40 professional books and programs across K–12, lending them a level of expertise few literacy consultants can match.

Some initiatives you might consider: •CommonCoreimplementation•Textcomplexityandclosereading•Text-dependentquestions•School-wideliteracyintervention

Make the PD one day, make it a week, make it a full year . . . make it even longer. Fisher and Frey’s PD Collaborative is prepared to work closely with your staff both on site and online until your target outcomes are reached.

For more information about The Fisher & Frey PD Collaborative, contact your Account Manager at (800) 831-6640.

rave reviews forText-Dependent Questions, K–5 & 6–12

“Fisher and Frey set the record straight about text-dependent questions. They demonstrate that text-dependent questions can address not only literal understanding but also understandings about what the text doesn’t say, how the text works, what the text means to and for the reader, how the text might be read in a specific discipline, and more. With specific prompts and concrete examples, Fisher and Frey show us how to use questioning as a central tool to address the Common Core State Standards.”

—NELL K. DUKE, Ed.D. University of Michigan

“Fisher and Frey deliver another indispensable resource for teachers across the curriculum as they strive to meet today’s more rigorous standards. Mentoring students to grow from dependence on questions provided by others to developing the capacity to ‘interrogate a text’ themselves is fundamental to proficient reading of complex disciplinary texts. Text-Dependent Questions provides teachers with a carefully reasoned pathway for questioning a text as a requisite for close reading.”

—DOUG BUEHLAuthor of Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning

“Everything about this book is genuine. From the authors’ candid appraisal of the myths surrounding close reading to their forthright recommendations for teaching, it is refreshing. Fisher and Frey have been there, lived the pedagogy, and generated much of the scholarship that makes Text-Dependent Questions both compelling and unpretentious. Readers who have heard this dynamic pair speak at conferences and other professional gatherings are in for a treat; they are indisputably on the frontline when it comes to engaging others in close reading.”

—DONNA E. ALVERMANNThe Omer Clyde & Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education

Institute for African American Studies


What could Fern Arable, Jay Gatsby, and Winston Churchill possibly have in common? They all need masterful teachers to help students revel in their complexity. And Nancy Frey and Doug Fisher are just the two mentors to help you make that happen.

Call it close reading, call it deep reading, call it analytic reading—call it what you like. The point is, it’s a level of understanding that students of any age can achieve with the right kind of instruction. In Rigorous Reading, Nancy and Doug articulate an instructional plan so clearly, and so squarely built on research, that teachers, schools, and districts need look no further for guidance.

The 5 Access Points Toward Proficiency

1. Purpose & Modeling: How to think aloud to demonstrate critical thinking and how good readers always know why they are reading.

2. Close & Scaffolded Reading Instruction: How to engage students in repeated readings and discussions, with text-dependent questions, prompts, and cues to help students delve into an author’s ideas.

3. Collaborative Conversations: How to orchestrate collaborative learning to get students in the habit of exercising their analytical thinking in the presence of their peers.

4. An Independent Reading Staircase: How to artfully steer students to more challenging books, with strategic bursts of instruction and peer conferences to foster metacognitive awareness.

5. Performance: How to offer feedback and assessments that help students demonstrate understanding of text in authentic ways and plan instruction based on student understanding.

There’s more…Also included are illustrative video and an in-text Professional Learning Guide, with online PowerPoints—making this the only resource you need to help kids truly understand what it really means to “read closely.”

NANCY FREY & DOUG FISHEROn 5 Access Points for seriously stretching students’ capacity to comprehend complex text

Grades K–12: $27.95, 256 pages + video, D15208-978-1-4522-6813-2

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“This is a bold book.…Its genius, and its unique contribution, is in bringing the balance and the centeredness to this new game in town—the Common Core, with so much potential to decenter us and upset our equilibrium.”

—P. DAVID PEARSON Professor at the Graduate School of Education

University of California, Berkeley

“One would think that the first place to look when wanting information about the Common Core State Standards would be, well, the Common Core State Standards. The fact is, though, Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey are quickly becoming the go-to folks for information on teaching these standards. They’ve proven this again in Rigorous Reading. This is certainly a book to be added to your collection of books that attend to the demands of the CCSS.”

—KYLENE BEERS, Ed.D.

“With Rigorous Reading, Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey have provided literacy educators who are committed to successfully raising the bar with solutions that make sense.…This is the most practical book I have ever come across in terms of providing teachers with the knowledge base and assistance many are seeking to improve their instruction with regard to complex texts.”

—STEVEN L. LAYNE, Ed.D.Author of Igniting a Passion for Reading

AUTHOR CONSULTANT SPOTLIGHT

Nancy Frey is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University. The recipient of the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from the Literacy Research Association, she is also a teacher-leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College and a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California.

Doug Fisher is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College. He is the recipient of an IRA Celebrate Literacy Award, NCTE’s Farmer Award for Excellence in Writing, as well as a Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. He is a credentialed English teacher and administrator in California.

For more information about The Fisher & Frey PD Collaborative, contact your Account Manager at (800) 831-6640.

rave reviews forRigorous Reading


Every teacher who is struggling to make close reading a cohesive and coherent part of the curriculum, take notice: relief is in sight, thanks to Nancy Boyles’ Lessons & Units for Closer Reading.

Here, Nancy Boyles redefines what it means to publish on demand with a resource that answers your most urgent questions around how to implement close reading within the literacy block. What’s more, she delivers all the goods: eight four-week units on close reading to immediately drop in to the curriculum and achieve that so-essential connectedness and coherence.

Want a yearlong curriculum? You’ve got it. Lessons & Units for Closer Reading features 32 lessons in all, based on readily available complex picture books and organized by eight learning pathways for approaching important themes in literature and informational texts. You can get started right away, with the help of:

•Shortnonfictionarticlestokickoffeachunitandgetkids’mindspercolating

•Assessmenttasks,rubrics,planningtemplates,booklists,andmoretomakeclose reading instruction easy, efficient, and effective

•Linksto20videosegmentstoseeclosereadingandfollow-uplessonsinaction •Page-by-pagetext-dependentquestionsforeverypicturebook •Studentworkprovidingexemplarsforwritingaboutreading •10PlanningStepsfordevelopingnewunitsofstudy With Closer Reading, Nancy Boyles expertly delivered answers to the why and how of close reading. Now, with this phenomenal sequel, you’re treated to her playbook. This is the one that will sit in your lap while you teach, each and every day.

SEE ALSO Closer Reading, Grades 3–6, page 8

NANCY BOYLESOn ready-to-go units and planning tools to ramp up close reading

Grades 3–6: $29.95, 336 pages + video, D15208-978-1-4833-7567-0

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“Lessons & Units for Closer Reading reassures teachers like me to the same degree that it instructs. It is no accident that Nancy uses words like coherence, connections, and synergy in her opening pages. Through her unit and lesson design, she brings that coherence to us in incremental, practical ways—ways that new and experienced teachers can easily absorb into their teaching practices. Nancy is giving us what we want . . . but it is actually what we need, too.”

—TANNY MCGREGORAuthor of Comprehension Connections

“Nancy Boyles offers teachers what they ask for and need the most—practical, useable strategies and examples in the form of actual close reading lessons—32 to be exact—along with 20 videos accessible through QR codes that show how to implement these close reading lessons and related strategies. What a treasure trove of modeling and guidance for teachers! As a former elementary educator myself, how I wish I had had this powerful resource to help me become a better teacher of reading.”

—LARRY AINSWORTHCoauthor of Common Formative Assessments 2.0

“The Common Core Standards call for students to be able to read texts closely to make meaning and for students to build knowledge systematically. This book provides a vivid picture of instruction that supports this kind of learning. Boyles’ text speaks to the teacher who has been grappling with how to develop units and strategically integrate close reading lessons, providing clarity and inspiration. This is a must-have text for educators and will remain a go-to resource in my own professional library.”

—SUNDAY CUMMINS, Ph.D.Author of Close Reading of Informational Texts

“Now you understand what close reading is, but you need the nitty-gritty. Presto, Nancy Boyles delivers eight stellar units of study. . . . But what I admire most of all? The gallery of student work she’s gathered, with her commentary about strengths, needs, next steps. It’s a rare window into another practitioner’s thinking about what constitutes higher-level reading and writing work. Everybody’s talking about it, but no one has done such a good job showing it until now.”

—LESLIE BLAUMANAuthor of The Common Core Companion: Booster Lessons, Grades 3–5


A former classroom teacher and professor of reading, Nancy Boyles is a literacy consultant, who provides workshops, model lessons, and curriculum support to districts and organizations nationally, regionally, and locally. Over the course of her career she has received numerous awards, including New England Reading Association’s Outstanding Literacy Leader Award and Connecticut Reading Association’s Celebrate Literacy Award for exemplary service.

For more information about Corwin Author Consulting, contact your Account Manager at (800) 831-6640.

advance praise forLessons & Units for Closer Reading


Grades 3–6: $24.95, 232 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-0445-8

CLOSE READING. Not in a very long while has a term been freighted with so much responsibility to pull every student out of a reading tailspin and into a great future of college and career readiness. Finally, here’s a book that tunes out all of the hubbub and gets down to the business of showing how exactly to “get close reading right.”

Why Closer Reading? Why now? Because Nancy Boyles knows full well that we’ll never realize the promise of close reading unless we figure out where it fits in with existing literacy practices. So she magnifies all the planning that goes into powerful close reading lessons, while providing a wide-angle lens to answer our biggest questions—top among them how close reading relates to text complexity and strategic reading comprehension.

Chapter by chapter, Nancy delivers astoundingly practical ideas on how to import close reading into daily planning, including how to:

•Connectclosereadingwithotherinstructionalpractices(wholeclass, readalouds,guidedreading,conferring)

•Selectrichtextsandplanforinitialclosereadinglessons

•Deliverinitialandfollow-upclosereadinglessons

•Engagestudentsinpeerpracticeafterclosereading

•Coordinatecomprehensionstrategiesandclosereading

•Useclosereadingtodeepenstudents’independentreading

Close—closer—closest. Yes, if we want our students to intimately understand a text’s ideas, we’ll need to make some shifts in our instruction. Fortunately, we now have Closer Reading to lean on as we go into higher gear.


NANCY BOYLESOn the whys and hows of getting close reading right in grades 3–6

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“It’s a comfort knowing that at last there’s a book about close reading that honors and respects the needs of teachers in the intermediate grades. You will read, dog ear pages, study the book with team members, and revisit and reread parts on your own. It is a must-have book for your professional library and for professional learning communities!”

—LAURA ROBBAuthor of Unlocking Complex Texts

“Nancy Boyles does a superb job of explaining close reading and when teachers should have students engage with it. Through the wealth of practical teaching ideas she offers herein, she reminds us that reading is purpose driven. . . . The result is that teachers and students alike understand when to read close and, as important, not so close!”

—MICHAEL F. OPITZCoauthor of Good-bye Round Robin, Updated Edition

“This is the book you have been waiting for! With keen insight and explicit attention to detail, Nancy Boyles provides the resources you need, just when you need them. Closer Reading is a ‘must have’ for all literacy leaders, administrators, and teachers who want to see their students gain a deeper understanding of reading comprehension.”

—CATHY MASTRIANNAPresident of Connecticut Reading Association

“Nancy Boyles’ Closer Reading, Grades 3–6, is my new ‘go-to’ book for sorting through the myths, mystique, uncertainties, and questions surrounding the close reading of complex text and, more importantly, the positioning of readers, writers, learners, and teachers as they navigate close reading within and beyond a standards-based curriculum.”

—JANE WELLMAN-LITTLEPresident of New England Reading Association


A former classroom teacher and professor of reading, Nancy Boyles is a literacy consultant, who provides workshops, model lessons, and curriculum support to districts and organizations nationally, regionally, and locally. Over the course of her career she has received numerous awards, including New England Reading Association’s Outstanding Literacy Leader Award and Connecticut Reading Association’s Celebrate Literacy Award for exemplary service.


rave reviews forCloser Reading, Grades 3–6


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Here is a reading riddle: What knowledge always precedes high-level text comprehension and yet seldom is given sufficient instructional time?

The answer: Word knowledge.

Our students can’t understand texts without knowing what words mean. It’s that simple. Meanwhile, in our rush toward complex texts, somehow we forget to put a new systematic vocabulary plan in place. In Vocabulary Is Comprehension, Laura Robb provides the instructional plan. And just wait until you see the results!

You’ll love this: Laura’s plan takes just 10 to 15 minutes, and much of it is spent in partner and independent work so this is no “add on” to squeeze in. Even better, all materials are included. Each lesson features a student reproducible along with 50+ pieces of short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—or, if you prefer, use your own text.

Here’s how the plan works:

•Day 1: You read aloud the short text and students discuss the selected words in their context. Students work in pairs, rereading the text to understand words and phrases, and then share understandings as a class.

•Days 2 & 3: Students finish partner work and complete the reproducible.

Along the way, the 25+ lessons:

•Supportcomplextextcomprehension

•Coveracademicvocabulary,synonyms,antonyms,multiplemeanings,figurativelanguage, denotative and connotative meanings, Greek and Latin roots, and more

•AddressspecificCCSSvocabularyandwritingstandards

•IncludestrategiesforELLsanddevelopingreaders,andformativeassessments

•Linktoawealthofonlinereproducibles,wordslists,andprintablecomplextexts

If you’re looking for a resource that will make all the difference as you address the new reach for rigorous, complex text reading, Vocabulary Is Comprehension is it.

LAURA ROBBOn helping students tackle the biggest barrier of complex texts

Grades 4–8: $21.95, 208 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-4580-2


rave reviews forVocabulary Is Comprehension


An author, teacher, coach, and speaker, Laura Robb has spent the last four decades in middle school education. What teachers appreciate most about Laura is her deep commitment to children and adolescents, and her ability to show what best-practice instruction looks like day by day; a survey conducted by Instructor magazine named Laura as one of the nation’s top twenty educators. Currently, in addition to her speaking and consulting, she works part time in grades K–8.


“Although the importance of vocabulary knowledge for reading and learning is widely recognized, it isn’t every day that a book makes the connection between word savvy and engaged text reading so transparent and lively. . . . Laura Robb’s Vocabulary Is Comprehension is truly a book for the times and for the time-conscious middle-grades teacher. It’s one I look forward to having in my toolbox.”

—KATHY GANSKEAuthor of Word Journeys, Second Edition

“Laura Robb has this remarkable way of lassoing the galloping, impossible-to-meet mandates out there and wrestling them to the ground so they actually work in classrooms. In Vocabulary Is Comprehension, she shows teachers how to teach systematic, daily vocabulary in the context of authentic reading and a vital curriculum . . . making us grateful once again for Laura Robb and her efforts to help us all be better teachers.”

—JIM BURKEAuthor of The Common Core Companion

“The research is clear: the size of a student’s vocabulary at the end of twelfth grade is not only a strong indicator of whether college is attainable, but also a predictor of future income and success. Fortunately, Vocabulary Is Comprehension provides teachers with effective and practical ideas on how to strengthen our students’ knowledge of words. This is an essential book for helping students overcome word deficit and attain the greater freedom and power that come with possessing a strong and sophisticated vocabulary.”

—KELLY GALLAGHERAuthor of Deeper Reading

“Opening Laura Robb’s book is like unwrapping a gift box where you discover many other wondrous presents inside. Expertly aligned to the Common Core and to research-based practices, Laura provides teachers with what they’ve long needed: a simple set of principles for understanding all of the individual components of vocabulary along with practical tools for teaching vocabulary. . . . Lots of lessons. Lots of texts. Lots of reproducibles. Lots to love!”

—NANCY BOYLESAuthor of Closer Reading, Grades 3–6


Grades 4–8: $28.95, 320 pages, D15208-978-1-4522-8650-1

Every once in a while—and not often enough—a professional book comes along that has such a profound impact on your classroom practice you’re left wondering how you were able to survive so long without it.

It’s about to happen again: that “where-have-you-been-all-my-life?” feeling. With Nancy Akhavan’s Nonfiction NOW Lesson Bank.

What exactly makes Nancy Akhavan’s book such a stand-out? Instead of talking around the Common Core—or around what it means to read nonfiction well—it gets to the heart of showing you just how to teach content-area texts for slower, deeper, and more purposeful reading and understanding.

If you consider the number of lessons, reproducibles, and ready-to-use informational texts, that alone is a pretty hefty sum of resources to transform teaching. But Nancy happens to be an educator who has performed many roles over her career so she divests in this book just about everything in her professional vault, presenting a whole-new vision for your nonfiction instruction.

Step by step—and before, during, and after reading—The Nonfiction NOW Lesson Bank provides:

•50powerhouselessonsonteachingnonfiction,includingfiveonclosereading

•Abankofshortinformationaltextstousewithlessons

•Studentpracticeactivitiesoneverythingfromscanningfeaturestowriting about reading

•Graphicorganizersfortamingtextbooks

•TheDailyDuosequenceforweeklylessonandunitplanning

Some professional books live their lives on shelves. The Nonfiction NOW Lesson Bank will live its life in actual use: dog-eared, sticky-noted, and loved.


NANCY AKHAVANOn top-notch nonfiction lessons and texts for maximizing students’ content-area comprehension

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“When you read this book what shines through is this: Nancy is a teacher. Only a teacher would know that this is just-the-right book for teachers, right now. Right now, with the pressures to help kids read more and more complex texts, Nancy has a solution that is sensible. . . . Now, just as it’s always been, it’s about comprehension.”

—JENNIFER SERRAVALLOAuthor of The Literacy Teacher’s Playbook

“A practical look at teaching nonfiction texts. The ideas in this book will guide upper-elementary and middle school teachers toward success with the demands of reading for information. The lessons will get you started tomorrow and will allow for increased proficiency for students.”

—DOUGLAS FISHERCoauthor of Rigorous Reading

“I predict this will be one of the most dog-eared, tattered, sticky-noted books in your professional library. As teachers face the challenge of incorporating more nonfiction into our teaching, Nancy Akhavan has seamlessly blended research, critical foundational information, and endlessly useful teaching tactics into one go-to resource. She reminds us that the social and natural worlds are fascinating to kids and gives us the tools to welcome them into that world.”

—ELLIN KEENEAuthor of Talk About Understanding and To Understand

“I love what Nancy Akhavan has done! She meshes best practices with what’s best about the Common Core—and never loses sight of what motivates students to read in the first place: worthy texts and clear purposes for reading them. If I had to choose, what I love best are the lessons, organizers, and these great short texts—all for enhancing student understanding. I’m ready to use this book. Now!”

—LESLIE BLAUMANAuthor of The Common Core Companion, Grades 3–5


A former teacher, staff developer, principal, and assistant superintendent, Nancy Akhavan is currently Assistant Professor and Single Subject Credential Coordinator at California State University, Fresno. Her areas of expertise are broad—literacy, reading and writing instruction, content-based reading instruction, standards-based instruction, English language learners, and leadership—in both urban and rural settings.


rave reviews forNonfiction NOW Lesson Bank, Grades 4–8


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If only there were ingenious new power tools that could give students the space to tease apart complex ideas in order to comprehend and to weld their understandings into a new whole.

Good news: such tools exist. In the two volumes, Mining Complex Text: Using and Creating Graphic Organizers to Grasp Content and Share New Understandings, a formidable author team delivers fresh ways to use the best digital and print graphic organizers in whole-class, small-group, and independent learning. Big believers of the gradual release method, the authors roll out dozens of examples of dynamic lessons and collaborative work across the content areas so that we see the process of using these visual tools to:

•Helpstudentsread,reread,andtakenotesonatext

•Promotestudents’oralsharingofinformationandtheirideas

•Elevateorganizednote-makingfromcomplextext(s)

•Scaffoldstudents’narrativeandinformationalwriting •Movestudentstoindependentthinkingastheylearntocreatetheir

own organizing and note-taking systems

Gone are the days of fill-’em-in and forget-’em graphic organizers. With these two volumes, teachers and professional development leaders have a unified vision of how to use these tools to meet the demands of an information-saturated world, one in which students need to be able to sift, sort, synthesize, and apply knowledge with alacrity and skill.


DIANE LAPP, THOMAS DEVERE WOLSEY, KAREN WOOD & KELLY JOHNSONOn using graphic organizers to make the complex comprehensible

Grades 2–5: $19.95, 176 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-1629-1

Grades 6–12: $19.95, 184 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-1628-4


DIANE LAPP, THOMAS DEVERE WOLSEY, KAREN WOOD & KELLY JOHNSONOn using graphic organizers to make the complex comprehensible

rave reviews forMining Complex Text, Grades 2–5 & 6–12

“How many times have you heard ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’? Visual, graphic information is important because human brains are hard-wired to attend to images. The challenge is that students still have to read words to achieve success. In this text, Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson make a vital connection between reading words and the role of graphics. They demonstrate how teachers and students can blend the two such that great learning occurs in every classroom, every day.”

—DOUGLAS FISHER Coauthor of Rigorous Reading

“Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson have written a book that will become the resource for using graphic organizers across disciplines! With careful attention to the details teachers crave in order to design meaningful lessons…. What I love about this book is that it fosters original thinking among students as they design graphic organizers that enable them to unpack meaning from complex texts and develop arguments for essays.”

—LAURA ROBBAuthor of Vocabulary Is Comprehension

“Professional books have long urged teachers to use graphic organizers, but most of these books are dreadfully short on specifics. Diane Lapp and her colleagues have addressed this problem in an admirable fashion…. Educators endeavoring to meet the challenges of the Common Core should mark this title as a must-read. This engaging book is long overdue and I recommend it enthusiastically!”

—MICHAEL MCKENNACoauthor of Assessment for Reading Instruction, Second Edition

“For educators looking for ways to implement graphic organizers in their classrooms, this is the resource for you. The numerous types of graphic organizers, the research behind them, and the how and why to use them with students are all at your fingertips. I envision this book being especially helpful for teachers new to the field just learning about graphic organizers.”

—LESLIE BLAUMANAuthor of The Common Core Companion, Grades 3–5


Diane Lapp is a Distinguished Professor of Education at San Diego State University, where her research and instruction focus on issues related to struggling readers and writers, their families, and their teachers. An instructional coach for the Health Sciences High & Middle College in San Diego, Diane is also a member of both the California and International Reading Associations’ Halls of Fame for her dedication to reading instruction.



Grades K–2: $27.95, 296 pages, D15208-978-1-4522-8310-4

Young children asking incisive questions about butterflies . . . the moon . . . the number of teeth a shark has. This is precisely what kids do when the Common Core State Standards for informational texts go right in K–2. And with The Everything Guide to Informational Texts, the Common Core will go right in K–2.

Authors Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart have written the book that primary teachers have been pleading for—a resource that delivers the “what I need to know Monday through Friday” to engage kids in a significant amount of informational text reading experiences.

No filler, no lofty ideals about college and career readiness, but instead, the information on how to find lesson-worthy texts and create developmentally appropriate instructional plans that truly help young readers comprehend grade-level texts.

What you’ll love most:

•Thehow-to’sonselectingstellarinformationaltexts

•High-impactcomprehensionstrategiesfornonfiction

•Suggestionsonprovidingsufficientchallengeinguidedreading, read alouds, and other practices

•Modeltextlessonsandlessonplantemplatesacrosseachgrade

•Anannotatedlistof449informationaltextsforreadalouds,guidedreading, and independent reading

It’s time to bring in to our classrooms all the high-quality informational texts that are available. It’s time to demonstrate to students how to read them, and to allow the authors of these children’s texts to take readers into rich, complex ideas they can handle with our support. If ever there were a book to quell our concern about how Common Core expectations will play out in grades K–2, this is it.


KATHY BARCLAY & LAURA STEWARTOn best texts and practices for teaching informational reading to young kids

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“There was a time when a book like this would have set out to try to persuade teachers. But, that’s not the issue anymore. . . . Teachers everywhere are now asking themselves, ‘How do I teach with informational texts?’ Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart provide a rich collection of practical answers to that question. Their book can—through its practical lessons, advice, and guidance—show teachers how to make informational texts a joyful reality in the lives of our youngest scholars.”

—TIMOTHY SHANAHANDistinguished Professor Emeritus

University of Illinois at Chicago

“Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart have done a marvelous job of providing teachers with specific suggestions for making the most of informational texts—from choosing the right texts for students, to practical and effective instructional strategies that will help students engage in close reading of these important texts, to an actual lesson format for teaching informational texts. Teaching informational texts can be a challenge for primary grade teachers. The Everything Guide to Informational Texts will help teachers and students meet that challenge!”

—TIMOTHY RASINSKI, Ph.D.Kent State University

“The book is well written, well organized, and teacher friendly. It addresses a topic—the use of informational texts with younger students—that has not been sufficiently addressed in guidelines associated with the CCSS. It contains valuable lists of children’s nonfiction texts, annotated and organized by grade level. The suggested lesson format is illustrated concretely with sample lesson plans based on high- quality informational texts.”

—LOUISA MOATS, Ed.D.Contributing Writer of the Common Core State Standards

“For K–2 teachers eager to select and teach from ‘informational texts of substance,’ Barclay and Stewart offer much guidance. With keen insight, they also direct our pedagogical attention to the oft-overlooked, but tremendously powerful, text complexity essentials—oral language development, read aloud, and shared reading.”

—JAN MILLER BURKINSAuthor of Preventing Misguided Reading

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Almost everyone could benefit from a grammar check every once in a while—even we teachers. But our students desperately need something much more systematic, and they need it right way.

No matter what state you teach in, you can be certain that grammar is being tested…frequently and across the grades! Meanwhile our students entering middle and high school are still making the same errors they made back in third grade. Luckily, Gretchen Bernabei has come to the rescue with Grammar Keepers: a kid-friendly cache of 101 lessons and practice pages to help your students internalize the conventions of correctness once and for all.

Gretchen’s secret? Embed the lessons in ten minutes of daily journal writing, then use students’ own writing as models for discussion and practice. Students are much more interested in learning from one another than from stodgy sentences in a dusty primer, and these ultra-relevant examples more easily transfer into students’ talking, thinking, reading, and writing.

Here are the three ingredients of Gretchen’s approach:

1. Daily journal writing, which increases writing practice and allows students to implement and master the lessons on punctuation, usage, and sentence structure in an authentic context

2. Minilessons and Interactive Dialogues that model for students how to make grammatical choices

3. A “Keepers 101” tracking sheet for teachers to monitor teaching and a “Parts of Speech Sheet” for students to use as a reference tool

Think of Grammar Keepers as the Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition for the spell- and grammar-check generation.

GRETCHEN BERNABEIOn 101 lessons to help students master the conventions of grammar and usage once and for all

Grades 4–12: $27.95, 280 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-7546-5

AvailableJanuary


“Students and teachers need accessible ways to talk about and use grammar. In Gretchen’s trademark style, she gets these ever-important conversations started and keeps them going. This book is a keeper.”

—JEFF ANDERSONAuthor of Revision Decisions and Everyday Editing

“Gretchen Bernabei is a force as a teacher and an important mentor for using grammar instruction to help students become better writers. Gretchen has always bridged teaching the mechanics of language with authentic reading and writing because, as she says in this practical, straightforward book, ‘We only have time for the best authors, the best poetry, the best ways of living, the best ways to learn the most valuable things.’ . . . This is a smart book to add to your collection of professional resources.”

—PENNY KITTLEAuthor of Write Beside Them and Book Love

“Gretchen Bernabei presents teachers with a buffet of concrete strategies to help students tackle grammar within the context of their own writing. Grammar Keepers provides teachers and their students with easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes ranging from the simple concepts of grammar to more advanced structural understanding of writer’s craft.”

—TIM MARTINDELLPresident, Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts

“Grammar Keepers is designed for the master teacher who wants to take students to the limits of grammatical knowledge. Thanks to the variety of excellent materials that lead the reader and student beyond the simple ‘labels’ of grammar, you’ll be fully equipped to help students make the subtle power of detail possible.”

—HARRY NODENAuthor of Image Grammar


A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE’s James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications’ The Good Writer’s Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts.


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Just as the pressure for students to perform well on state assessments escalates ever higher, and the call to raise students’ achievement in narrative, opinion/argument, and informative/explanatory writing grows louder, Gretchen Bernabei and Judi Reimer publish Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning.

If ever there were a book to answer every writing need, this is it.

You see, Gretchen and Judi have been concerned about adolescents’ writing for years, and they have had amazing success using mentor texts by students to teach the ins and outs of writing in any genre. So with this book, they “hand over their file drawers” and provide you with 101 essays written by students with one-page companion lessons that address text structure, imagery, dialogue, rhetorical devices, grammatical structures, textual blends—all the different tools that writers use.

Organized into three major sections that align with the Common Core, STAAR, and other major state assessments, Fun-Size Academic Writing delivers succinct, powerhouse instruction on topics such as:

•Howtochooseastructureforargument,informational,ornarrativewriting

•Howtoreadapieceandextractthesisstatementandmainpoints

•Howtolayerawiderangeofdetailstosupportpoints

•Howtouserhetoricaldevicesandgrammaticalconstructionsforeffect

•Howtowritefromthepointofviewofafictionalcharacter

Collectively, the essays and lessons have the potential to move the needle on American students’ writing achievement once and for all. They show what has been done by students—and they reveal to you how your own students can do it, too.

GRETCHEN BERNABEI & JUDI REIMEROn 101 lessons and mentor texts for tackling the most persistent issues in academic writing

Grades 4–9: $27.95, 264 pages, D15208-978-1-4522-6861-3

For an electronic tour and to preview sample chapters, visit www.corwin.com/literacy.

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“Here is what I love about this book: It has gobs and gobs of student writing samples with smart and lively explanations of how to use each as the focus of a craft lesson to teach writing. The right models of student writing are the best mentor texts a teacher can find and with this book, you need look no further. . . . Breathe, fellow writing teachers. Much needed and wanted help has arrived.”

—RUTH CULHAMAuthor of Traits Writing

“Gretchen Bernabei is a wizard. In this book she provides wonderfully practical help for instruction in narrative, expository, and argumentative writing. And like all her work, it rests on a dynamic sense of ‘structure’. At a time when writing instruction is becoming increasingly formulaic, Gretchen continues to show the wealth of options students can have for developing their ideas and expanding on their experiences.”

—THOMAS R. NEWKIRKAuthor of Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones

“Gretchen Bernabei has done it again—only better. Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning plops us down in the middle of the disheveled process of writing and gives us concrete ways to navigate through. This book stands apart in two ways. First, it gives us myriad unpublished mentor texts written by students with diverse abilities and backgrounds. Second, its à la carte format makes it a perfect resource from which teachers can cull lessons.”

—KAY SHURTLEFFPresident, Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts

“Once again, Gretchen Bernabei weaves together masterful, concrete strategies with powerful student examples. Gretchen provides text structures and student models to move authentic writing beyond traditional formulas. This book is a must read/must try for all ELA teachers.”

—TIM MARTINDELL, Ed.D.President, Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts


A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE’s James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications’ The Good Writer’s Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts.


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Grades K–12: $23.95, 232 pages + full color,

D15208-978-1-4522-6863-7

Everywhere Smokey Daniels goes—every school he visits, every workshop he leads, every keynote he gives—there’s one teaching strategy that teachers embrace above all others. That single method for transforming students from passive spectators into active learners . . . for evoking curiosity, inspiring critical thinking, and building powerful writers along the way.

Now, with Elaine Daniels as Smokey’s coauthor, that best-kept teaching secret is revealed to teachers at large: Written Conversations.

Just what makes Written Conversations so potent? An ongoing, thoughtful correspondence between students, and between students and their teachers, Written Conversations, above all else, catch and ride the wave of social interaction, which in turn makes school matter to kids. It’s that simple. Structure by structure, from beginning to end, Smokey and Elaine describe four variations of these “silent writing-to-learn discussions,” during which all students in a classroom think and “talk” at once in writing, instead of one at a time out loud.

How Written Conversations work

1. It all starts with mini-memos, short student letters that teachers use to introduce, extend, and assess class work.

2. Then come dialogue journals, where pairs dive deeply into academic subjects.

3. Next, groups of three or four students join in extended written discussions called write-arounds.

4. Finally, kids take their thinking online, where they enjoy digital discussions with partners from their own classroom—and with kids from around the world.

. . . all the while, you are supported by detailed descriptions of each structure, lessons, and annotated student samples—making this the most practical teaching book in recent memory.

SEE ALSO Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction, Grades 4–12, page 34

HARVEY “SMOKEY” DANIELS & ELAINE DANIELSOn that single method for transforming students from passive spectators into active learners

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The author or coauthor of more than twenty books for teachers, Harvey Daniels, also known as “Smokey,” has been a professor, researcher, consultant, and teacher coach over his 43-year career. These days, he serves as a conference speaker, school district consultant, and demonstration teacher in schools around the U.S. and Canada. In 2012, Smokey was presented with the NCTE Exemplary Leader Award.


“Simple and brilliant! Smokey and Elaine invite us to capitalize on kids’ natural urge to write to each other. The tactics they describe in this book are easy to implement and will have a huge impact the minute you deploy them. The book is brimming with examples from preschoolers to college English classes.”

—ELLIN KEENECoauthor of Mosaic of Thought and Author of To Understand

“The Best-Kept Teaching Secret brims with jottings written by children and with an armful of ways you can use letter writing to revitalize your teaching. Readers who have come to trust Smokey’s grounding in classrooms will find that once again, he draws on a rich repertoire of stories and methods drawn from the hurly burl of classrooms.”

—LUCY CALKINSAuthor of Units of Study for Teaching Writing

and Coauthor of Pathways to the Common Core

“Smokey and Elaine Daniels let the secret out: when students participate in Written Conversations, they generate new and deeper thinking. The easy-to-implement strategies found in this book place writing where it belongs—in the forefront of the classroom.…I recommend this book for all teachers looking for ways to deepen their students’ thinking through writing.”

—KELLY GALLAGHERAuthor of Write Like This and Deeper Reading

“The Best-Kept Teaching Secret is brimming with the energy and heart of good teaching.…Smokey and Elaine anticipate your questions and answer every one. There are connections to the Common Core State Standards and student samples that range from handwritten notes to collaborative online conversations. There is vision here and plenty of smart thinking. Such a useful book. I can’t wait to share it.”

—PENNY KITTLE Author of Write Beside Them and Book Love

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Move over, old-school writing lessons. In High-Impact Writing Clinics, teacher-poets Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger deliver 21st-century engagements in a 21st-century format that are certain to finally hook today’s i-touch generation on writing—and help meet the Common Core Standards, too.

How? Sara and Michael’s 20 high-energy projectable lessons for grades 4–8 harness the brevity and potency of poetry for teaching the intricate skills behind writing well in any subject. The DVD’s poems—set against vivid full-color photographs and graphics on more than 500 slides—serve as a springboard for activities in which students read, discuss, and write to meet the literacy objectives of the Common Core:

•Demonstrateunderstandingoffigurativelanguage,wordrelationships,andnuancesin word meanings

•Interpretwordsandphrasesastheyareusedintext—includingdeterminingtechnical, connotative, and figurative meanings—and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone

•Analyzethestructureoftexts,includinghowspecificsentences,paragraphs,andlargerportionsoftext(e.g.,asection,chapter,scene,orstanza)relatetoeachotherand the whole

•Produceclearandcoherentwritinginwhichthedevelopment,organization,andstyleare appropriate to task, purpose, and audience

•Presentinformation,findings,andsupportingevidencesuchthatlistenerscanfollowthe line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience

If our students are to read and write complex literary and informational texts independently, they need highly effective, instructional scaffolding. With High-Impact Writing Clinics, teachers and students alike will become fully equipped to do so day after day.

To view the trailer, visit www.corwin.com/literacy.

SARA HOLBROOK & MICHAEL SALINGEROn how to teach today’s i-touch generation precision writing and reading in any subject

Grades 4–8: $28.95, 224 pages + DVD,

D15208-978-1-4522-8686-0

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“Leave it to Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger to come up with a resource that allows kids to be the diverse group of individuals they can and want to be—and at the same time paves a route for them to meet the Common Core Standards. . . . I really wish I had written this resource. Having read it, it is tough not to be jealous.”

—STEPHANIE HARVEYCoauthor of Strategies That Work, Second Edition

“High-Impact Writing Clinics is a unique, practical, clever, and just-right-for-the-times resource. Poetry is an integral part of the Common Core Standards. And just in time, here comes a truly easy-to-use resource, with all the connections made, lessons provided, ready-to-use slides, and texts included. If you can turn on PowerPoint, you can teach these lessons!”

—HARVEY “SMOKEY” DANIELSCoauthor of The Best-Kept Teaching Secret

“Is poetry relevant in this era of Common Core? Absolutely! Anyone who doubts this needs to pick up this remarkable book by Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger, who show how poetry is not only relevant but an engaging way for students to meet these rigorousstandards....SaraandMichaelshowstudents(andtheirteachers)thepowerofimagination and observation, even as they read closely and work to meet the standards.”

—STEVI QUATEIndependent Consultant and Staff Developer

PublicEducation&BusinessCoalition(PEBC)


Sara Holbrook is a full-time educator, author/poet, and consultant, who has been teaching in classrooms across the U.S. and abroad for more than twenty years. An award-winning performance poet and frequent keynote speaker, she is also the author of over a dozen books for children, adults, and teachers, including Practical Poetry.

A fixture in the performance poetry and education community, Michael Salinger has been writing and performing poetry and fiction for over twenty years. His work has appeared in dozens of literary journals, and he has coauthored two professional books with Sara: Outspoken! and High-Definition.


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The moves every student needs to succeed? Analyze, argue, compare/contrast, describe, determine, develop, evaluate, explain, imagine, integrate, interpret, organize, summarize, support, and transform.

Can a mere 15 words turn today’s youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers we need? Yes, contend Jim Burke and Barry Gilmore, coauthors of Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, because these are the moves that make the mind work and students must learn if they’re to achieve academically. It’s that simple.

Or is it? To arrive at these 15 critical reading, writing, and thinking processes, Jim and Barry combed through the standards, research, and secondary curriculum—and that’s for starters. Then, for each of these powerhouse processes, they developed a lesson structure, assignments, and activities so you can teach with potency, right away, and immediately cultivate in students discipline-specific habits of mind.

Here’s the best part yet: Jim and Barry distill each intellectual process into a potent concision that nevertheless spans subject areas:

•Before, during, and after sections offer essential questions, lesson ideas, and activities to assist you in instruction.

•Twosamplestudentpiecesillustratewhattolookforandtheprocessfor getting there.

•Tasksincludeproducingananalyticessay,visualtext,argument,narrativeandinformational writing, poetry, descriptive science writing, and explanatory writing in math.

•EverychapterhasacorrelationcharttoWebb’sDepthofKnowledgetodeepenunderstanding and a reproducible rubric to aid in assessment.

Use this book and you’ll see for yourself what a revolution Jim and Barry have created.

JIM BURKE & BARRY GILMOREOn the 15 academic moves that are crucial to students’ success across subjects

Grades 6–12: $24.95, 256 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-7980-7

AvailableFebruary



“Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness provides clarity and structure for teachers wanting to help their students become more competent and confident thinkers, and does so without compromising the critical role of a teacher’s content knowledge and creativity in a dynamic classroom. Its economy of expression makes complex ideas accessible, while annotated student work provides a window into learner application. Most significantly, the book is written in the voice of teachers, who live what they recommend.”

—CAROL ANN TOMLINSONWilliam Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor, University of Virginia,

and Author of The Differentiated Classroom, Second Edition

“This is a powerful and practical synthesis of the highest-leverage thinking moves that students . . . need to develop for school, work, and life. Burke and Gilmore provide what teachers want: clear and concise descriptions of each thinking move, analyses of student work samples, and innovative classroom practices and scaffolds that can be used to develop the moves in a variety of contexts. Fifteen stars!”

—JEFF ZWIERSSenior Researcher at Stanford University and

Author of Academic Conversations

“Jim Burke’s books need to be on the ‘must-read’ list of—at the very least—all English teachers! Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness is a worthy addition to that list with the ‘academic and thinking’ moves he and his coauthor, Barry Gilmore, deem critical for any of us who want to ‘up our game’ in the classroom.”

—LARRY FERLAZZOEducation Week Advice Columnist and

Author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves


Jim Burke has taught English at Burlingame High School for more than two decades. The author of over twenty books, he serves as a senior consultant for the Holt McDougal Literature program, the Chief English Language Arts Advisor to the College Board, and moderator of the English Companion Ning. Jim also sits on the AP English Course and Exam Review Commission, and the PARCC Consortium.

The Middle School Head at Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee, Barry Gilmore is a National Board Certified educator and past-president of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English. He is also the author of seven books for teachers, and his teaching awards include NCTE’s High School Teacher of Excellence Award and the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English Teacher of the Year Award.


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Online “Test-Readiness Survival Kits” that include sample reading and writing exams, best comprehension protocols, Q&As on quality test prep, glossaries of key academic vocabulary, and more—all curated with the belief that test prep should never be done as curriculum.

Don’t spend another minute poring over the standards. Jim Burke has already done the hard work for you. Focus instead on how to teach them with The Common Core Companion, your one-stop guide to what each standard says, what each standard means, and how precisely to put that standard into day-to-day practice across English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

That version of the standards you wish you had, The Common Core Companion is designed to provide schools, districts, and departments with a common language or set of reference points for effective school-wide implementation. Page by page, it clearly lays out:

•Grade-levelstandardssidebyside,withkeydistinctionshighlightedsoteachers know what they must teach from grade to grade

•Allthedifferentcontent-areaversionsofeachstandardarrangedononepagetofacilitate easy reference and school-wide collaboration

•Explanationsofeachstandardonacorrespondingpage,writteninaccessiblelanguage, along with prompts and questions to help students learn and apply each standard

•Essentialcontenttocoverandlessonideasformodelingtheliteracyskills behind the standards

•InstructionaltechniquesforeachstandardbasedonJim’sextensiveteachingexperience and current research on effective instruction

•CompleteglossaryforeachstandardandadaptationsforELLstudents

JIM BURKEOn what the 6–8 and 9–12 standards really say, really mean, and how to put them into practice

Grades 6–8: $28.95, 280 pages, D15208-978-1-4522-7603-8

Grades 9–12: $28.95, 264 pages, D15208-978-1-4522-7658-8


NEW FOR 2015!


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“I love what Jim Burke has done to make the standards less threatening and more useful for teachers. In particular, the indicators for what students and teachers should be doing, given the standard, are extremely helpful; as are such a clear glossary and illuminating examples. All in all, The Common Core Companion is bound to be enormously useful and thus dog-eared!”

—GRANT WIGGINS Coauthor of Understanding by Design

“Fundamentally different from other Common Core books, The Common Core Companion is a user’s guide designed by a teacher who actually uses the standards in his daily work with students. Jim Burke gently demystifies the Common Core State Standards and offers a practical tool for curricular alignment. I think you will find The Common Core Companion helps schools help themselves.”

—CAROL JAGOMember of the Common Core State Standards Feedback Committee

and Past President, National Council of Teachers of English

“I have never read a book for teachers so well laid out and highly useful. I predict administrators across the country will purchase this book for their secondary teachers to use in their staff meetings, individual department meetings, their PLCs, and for individual teachers to use as Burke puts it as ‘a personal compass to navigate the complexities of the Common Core Curriculum.’”

—DEBBIE SILVER, Ed.D. Author of Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers

and Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8

“I must say, I am duly impressed. This book gives the kind of ‘hands-on’ support classroom teachers and curriculum committees really need in doing the work of ‘unpacking’ the standards and interpreting those standards into curriculum documents. The very detailed, complete discussions of the standards and the breakdowns that Burke does are, in my opinion, exemplary . . . Well done!”

—JOE CRAWFORDAuthor of Aligning Your Curriculum to the Common Core State Standards


A longtime English teacher, Jim Burke is the author of more than twenty books and senior consultant for the Holt McDougal Literature program. Jim has received several awards, including the 2000 NCTE Exemplary English Leadership Award. In 2009, he created the English Companion Ning—the largest online community of English teachers in the world. Currently, Jim sits on the AP English Course and Exam Review Commission, and the PARCC Consortium.





You can find hundreds of literacy lessons in hundreds of places—but none of them will do for students what the ones in this book do.

What’s the magic bullet? Potent integration.

In this follow-up to her Common Core Companion, Grades 3–5, Leslie Blauman provides a rich bank of connected lessons you can use as booster shots when your students are in need a good dose of integrated reading and writing instruction. The 50+ lessons are divided into six learning sequences that span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to a process that often overwhelms teachers and coaches alike.

Follow each sequence and week by week, you’ll build the instructional potency to help students achieve a year’s worth of growth as you integrate:

1. Reading Craft and Structure with Opinion Writing

2. Opinion Writing with Evaluating Argument in Informational Text

3. NarrativeWritingwithCraftandStructure(words,phrases,keyideas,setting,character,andevents)

4. Informative/Explanatory Text Writing with Reading for Key Ideas

5. Research to Build and Present Knowledge with Integration of Knowledge and Ideas in Reading

6. Drawing Evidence from Literary or Informational Texts with Key Ideas and Details in Reading

Each learning sequence is supported by student writing samples that double as motivating mentor texts and assessment benchmarks. An If/Then chart tops off the sequence, giving you the nitty-gritty on how to reflect on students’ learning and look at student work to plan next week’s instructional steps.

LESLIE BLAUMANOn 50+ reading and writing lessons to boost your instructional potency

Grades 3–6: $27.95, 288 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-9274-5

AvailableMay



“One of the most rewarding feats as a teacher is one of the hardest to pull off: giving students a palpable sense of connectedness between all they do in the name of reading and writing. This book does an impressive job of presenting lessons that have the power to create that coherence. I admire the way Leslie balances narrative and nonfiction, reading and writing, and never forgets the importance of student talk. This book is like a spring breeze blowing through the house after a long winter. Each lesson flows from one to the other, and reminds us that it’s the movement in our teaching that breathes life into the content we teach.”

—JIM BURKEAuthor and Series Creator of The Common Core Companions

“What Leslie has done with Booster Lessons is to provide busy teachers and coaches with a Common Core Rosetta Stone. What a gift to have one master teacher’s translation of Standards’ language into expertly crafted daily lessons. The lessons are real, do-able, and rigorous at the same time. This book will be a great discovery for any educator!”

—JENNIFER SERRAVALLOAuthor of The Literacy Teacher’s Playbook

“From the first page of Booster Lessons, Leslie is our tour guide on a remarkable journey. We listen raptly as she leads us to twists and turns where reading and writing converge, points out signs that illuminate student learning, warns us of roadblocks that could impede our way, and suggests detours of flexible side trips across topics and grades. Leslie invites us on a joyful discovery of a new landscape where best practice and Common Core can reside in harmony. Pack your bags because you’ll never want to leave!”

—MARY HOWARDAuthor of Good to Great Teaching


An international consultant, Leslie Blauman has been teaching reading and literacy in Colorado public schools for over 30 years. Her classroom, in conjunction with the Public Education &BusinessCoalition(PEBC),isaworkingmodelforchild/staffdevelopment in reading, writing, and critical thinking and the frequent subject of professional workshops, classroom reading enhancement films, and education journals.


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Lessons, Grades 3–5


Grades K–2: $28.95, 288 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-4987-9

Grades 3–5: $28.95, 288 pages, D15208-978-1-4833-4985-5

Online “Test-Readiness Survival Kit” for grades 3–5 that includes sample reading and writing exams, best comprehension protocols, Q&As on quality test prep, glossaries of key academic vocabulary, and more—all curated with the belief that test prep should never be done as curriculum.

What makes Sharon Taberski and Leslie Blauman’s Common Core Companions “that version of the standards you wish you had”? It’s the way they translate each and every standard for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and foundational skills into the day-to-day “what you do”: lesson ideas, best books, grouping configurations, anchor charts, and so much more.

It’s all here, page by page:

•Thestandardsforliteratureandinformationaltextsputsidebysideforeasierplanning

•Tentotwentyteachingideasforeachstandard

•Recommendationsonhowtocultivatethehabitsofmindthatarecriticaltomeetingthe standards, including interpersonal skills, collaboration, and perseverance

•AglossaryofacademiclanguageforeachstandardwithadaptationsforELLstudents

•DevelopmentaldebriefsforK–2soyouknowwhenthestandardmaybeoutofreach

•Anonlinebankofgraphicorganizers,studentreproducibles,sampleclassroomcharts, rubrics, and photos

•Reproducibleplanningtemplatesforeachstandard

Together, these two volumes have the power to transform teaching and learning schoolwide with a cohesive vision for how to develop children’s literacy.

SHARON TABERSKI & LESLIE BLAUMANOn what the grades K–2 and 3–5 standards really say, really mean, and how to put them into practice


NEW FOR 2015!


“Sharon Taberski and Leslie Blauman are already on the national stage as literacy experts, but for me it is something much closer to home that makes them ideally equipped to author these new K–2 and 3–5 volumes: their many years of experience in the classroom. Each of these practitioners creates learning environments so special, so effective, that educators come from around the globe to see what they do. Now everyone has a chance to learn how they distill the goals of the CCSS into teaching and learning ideas that are true both to the standards and to the students the standards are here to serve.”

—JIM BURKEAuthor of The Common Core Companions, Grades 6–8 & 9–12

“Meeting the Common Core State Standards is a classic half-full/half-empty dilemma. We can either gripe about our un-favorite standards or seize this manifest opportunity. Sharon Taberski and Leslie Blauman seize big-time. Their savvy guides to the CCSS in the primary and intermediate grades overflow with wisdom, creativity and energy.”

—HARVEY “SMOKEY” DANIELSCoauthor of The Best-Kept Teaching Secret

“A classroom teacher who mixes it up with kids every day, Leslie Blauman teaches as if her hair’s on fire. Years of experience and study have led her to teach students to think strategically within a workshop model framed by active literacy practices. The Common Core Companion lays out a road map to incorporating these research-based practices so kids can perform at their optimum, meet and exceed the CCSS, and even more importantly, become lifelong, literate, thoughtful readers and thinkers.”

—STEPHANIE HARVEYCoauthor of Strategies That Work, Second Edition

rave reviews forCommon Core Companion, K–2 & 3–5


Sharon Taberski is a nationally recognized educator, author, and presenter, and a leader in the field of early reading instruction. Her professional books and teaching materials have revolutionized the way primary teachers approach reading and remain classics in the field. Sharon currently works in school districts across the country helping teachers organize instruction and think systematically about how best to accomplish their goals.

An international consultant, Leslie Blauman has been teaching reading and literacy in Colorado public schools for over 30 years. Her classroom, in conjunction with the Public Education &BusinessCoalition(PEBC),isaworkingmodelforchild/staffdevelopment in reading, writing, and critical thinking and the frequent subject of professional workshops, classroom reading enhancement films, and education journals.





NEWS FLASH: A major meta-analysis of 213 studies showed an average 11 percent gain in academic performance for kids receiving explicit social-academic learning instruction.

Turns out this “soft stuff” about creating a culture of respect and rapport yields hard and fast gains, and that’s no surprise to collaboration “gurus” Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Nancy Steineke. Now, these authors share a yearlong plan for helping you build powerful and binding peer-to-peer interactions. The added bonus: Your kids will meet speaking and listening standards, while you score better on classroom-engagement rubrics.

Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction taps the instructional power of slides, full-color illustrations, and super succinct directions to teach both the language and the behaviors of working effectively with others. These 35 lessons take your kids on a carefully paced upward spiral of collaboration, with explicit coaching on how to speak, listen, argue, persuade—and get along. Here’s the best part: You model and your students practice these social skills with the content of your curriculum, not in disconnected add-on exercises.

For each lesson, there are six to 25 slides that focus on one vital social-academic skill; step-by-step teaching tips are in the lay-flat planning book. The sequence looks mostly like this:

•The first slides introduce the skill—like being a good partner or arguing both sides of a controversial topic—then explain its value.

•Thenextslideshelpmodeltheskillinaction,usingwhatevercurriculartopicyouhappen to be teaching.

•Now,kids’activethinkingisinvitedasyouco-createstrategiestoenhanceuseofthetarget social-academic skill.

•Additionalslideshelpkidspracticetheskillusingyourcurricularcontentasyoumonitor and support.

•Lessonsendwithadebriefingtosolidifynewunderstandings.

HARVEY “SMOKEY” DANIELS & NANCY STEINEKEOn the social-academic skills central to college, career, and life readiness

Grades 4–12: $28.95, 248 pages + slideshow,

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The author or coauthor of more than twenty books for teachers, Harvey Daniels, also known as “Smokey,” has been a professor, researcher, consultant, and teacher coach over his 43-year career. These days, he serves as a conference speaker, school district consultant, and demonstration teacher in schools around the U.S. and Canada. In 2012, Smokey was presented with the NCTE Exemplary Leader Award.

A longtime collaborator with Smokey as both a coauthor and a co-presenter, Nancy Steineke has been a full-time English teacher for more than three decades. Nancy is the author of six other professional books and classroom collaboration is always a central strategy, whether she’s advising on literature circles, content-area writing, teaching nonfiction and fiction, or assessment.


rave reviews forTeaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction

“Collaboration and cooperation do not emerge magically. We must explicitly teach kids the social strategies of collaborative behavior: to listen attentively, ask follow up questions, and disagree agreeably. Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction does exactly that. It will lead to more learning, greater achievement, and an inviting and fun classroom environment where kids work collaboratively, independently and develop a sense of agency. . . . Teachers need it and will love it, but more importantly, so will kids!”

—STEPHANIE HARVEY Coauthor of The Comprehension Toolkit

“Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction recognizes the importance of establishing an emotionally healthy classroom—a classroom where students have been taught to manage their emotions, to build relationships, and to work effectively with one another. The easy-to-use lessons in this book connect with students by giving them more responsibility, more control, and more choice. As Daniels and Steineke say, the best classrooms are those in which students are treated like the people they want to become. This book helps teachers to build those classrooms. I highly recommend it.”

—KELLY GALLAGHERAuthor of Write Like This

“Do you cringe when it’s time for small-group work? Do you find that work time gets too unruly when students have a chance to discuss with partners? If so, you need this book. Smokey and Nancy, the king and queen of conversation, guide teachers in setting up systems and structures that allow for purposeful talk to happen in the classroom. Teachers pondering how to prepare students for the CCSS speaking and listening standards and, more importantly, as effective communicators for the world outside of school will truly appreciate all this book has to offer.”

—CRIS TOVANIAuthor of So What Do They Really Know?


The ideal? Newly minted high school graduates all across the nation, each one a complex text genius, a writer and analytic thinker beyond compare. All on to glorious colleges and careers, thanks to the Common Core.

The reality? The 1.3 million students who fail to graduate from high school each year and the hundreds of thousands more who either gave up or lost interest long ago . . .

The reality is why ReLeah Lent and Barry Gilmore’s Common Core CPR is needed. Urgently. Because if we continue to insist that all students meet expectations that are well beyond their abilities and mindsets, these kids will only decline faster. We must be brave enough—and trained enough—to cast aside what we know harms students and apply with renewed vigor the teaching methods we know work.

ReLeah and Barry embrace what is best about the standards and explicitly show teachers how to connect these ideal outcomes to practical classroom strategies, detailing the day-to-day teaching that can coax reluctant learners into engagement and achievement. You’ll learn how to:

•Considerchoiceandrelevanceineveryassignment

•Planandspotopportunitiesforsuccess

•Scaffoldstudents’comprehensionofcomplexfictionandnonfictiontexts

•Modelclosereadingthroughthoughtfulquestioning

•Teachstudentstouseevidenceinreading,writing,speaking,andreflection

It’s incremental growth that teachers need to make happen: that one book, that one writing assignment, to help a student turn a corner. “If we can get that one transformational moment to occur, and follow it up by designing more opportunities for success, that’s the ideal,” say ReLeah and Barry.

To view the online Professional Learning Guide, visit www.corwin.com/literacy.

RELEAH LENT & BARRY GILMOREOn practical strategies for coaxing our most resistant learners into engagement and achievement

Grades 6–12: $29.95, 368 pages,

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“I have read two books that give me hope that the CCSS may improve both teaching and learning, especially for struggling readers and writers. This book, written by ReLeah Lent andBarryGilmore,isoneofthosetwobooks(theotherwaswrittenbyLucyCalkinsandhercolleagues)....So,readthisbookandthenbegintoadaptyourinstructioninthemanner described so artfully in this book.”

—RICHARD L. ALLINGTONProfessor of Education, University of Tennessee, and

Author of What Really Matters for Struggling Readers, Third Edition

“Common Core CPR is a powerful text.…[It] offers commonsense suggestions for successful work with the standards in all classrooms, especially with students who struggle. Using an interdisciplinary approach to literacy, the authors do not view the standards as isolated skills to teach, but as natural outcomes as they scaffold learning.”

—SHARON DRAPERAuthor of Panic and Tears of a Tiger

“This is a very helpful and very timely book. Lent and Gilmore provide a very smart yet workable and commonsense approach to not only engaging struggling learners, but then assisting them through collaborative activity in a meaningful context of use to greater facility as readers and writers, speakers and listeners.”

—JEFFREY D. WILHELMCoauthor of Uncommon Core


An international consultant, ReLeah Cossett Lent is a founding member of a statewide literacy project at the University of Central Florida. The author of eight books and chair of NCTE’s Standing Committee Against Censorship, she is the recipient of ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Award, NCTE’s Intellectual Freedom Award, the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award, and the Florida Council of Teachers of English President’s Award.

Barry Gilmore is the Middle School Head at Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. A National Board Certified Teacher, he taught English and social studies for nearly twenty years. Barry is the author of six literacy books and former president of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English. Awards for his teaching have come from NCTE, TCTE, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission.


rave reviews forCommon Core CPR


Grades 6–12: $22.95, 208 pages,

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Let’s face it, weak rivets notwithstanding, the Titanic wouldn’t have sunk if the iceberg had been spotted in time. And let’s face it, the CCSS won’t be classroom-worthy unless practitioners chart our course. Depend on Michael Smith, Deborah Appleman, and Jeff Wilhelm to help you navigate through some potentially treacherous waters.

Uncommon Core puts us on high-alert about some outright dangerous misunderstandings looming around so-called “standards-aligned” instruction, then shows us how to steer past them—all in service of meeting the real intent of the Common Core: to help prepare students for the future while engaging them in the present. Smith, Appleman, and Wilhelm counter with teaching suggestions that are true to the research and true to our students, including how:

•Reader-basedapproachescancomplementtext-basedones

•Prereadingactivitiescanhelpstudentsmeetthestrategicandconceptual demands texts place on them

•Strategyinstructioncanresultinacarefulandcriticalanalysisofindividualtexts while providing transferable understandings

•Inquiryunitsaroundessentialquestionscangeneratemeaningfulconversation and higher-order thinking about those texts

•Selectioncriteriathatconsiderinterpretivecomplexitycantakeussomuch farther than those that consider textual complexity alone

Given the number of strategies, lesson ideas, and activities in the book, Uncommon Core is really less about the standards and more about timeless, excellent teaching and how to use it like never before to meet the Core ideals. It’s about naming what’s bold and brilliant about those forty-two anchor standards, but also daring to send up a red distress flare about their implementation. Let’s put instruction where it belongs: back in the hands of the experts.


MICHAEL SMITH DEBORAH APPLEMAN & JEFF WILHELMOn where the authors of the standards go wrong about instruction—and how to get it right



“Finally! A book with more light than heat on the issue of standards and their implications for learning. This is a well-argued, even-handed, and clear-headed look at the need to distinguish the value of the Common Core Standards from some of the questionable views of teaching and learning that standards writers and promoters have been expressing. . . . Every teacher of reading, supervisor, and district leader will find value in this text.”

—GRANT WIGGINSCoauthor of Understanding by Design

“This book represents what we should all be doing with the CCSS—making suggestions for modifying them so that they stand a chance of achieving the goals behind them. Unless the CCSS are a living document that can be shaped and reshaped by the educators and students who are held accountable to them, they will fail. Read this book to help them succeed.”

—P. DAVID PEARSONProfessor of the Graduate School of Education

University of California, Berkeley

“Michael Smith, Deborah Appleman, and Jeff Wilhelm seek to salvage the Common Core State Standards from both their friends and their enemies. . . Readable, classroom friendly, and realistic, Uncommon Core is a must read for everyone struggling with the current wave of curriculum reform.”

—ARTHUR APPLEBEE

Distinguished Professor & Director Center on English Learning & Achievement, University at Albany


Michael W. Smith, a professor in Temple University’s College of Education, joined the ranks of college teachers after eleven years of teaching high school English. His research focuses on understanding both how adolescents and adults engage with texts outside school and how teachers can use those understandings to devise instruction.

Deborah Appleman is Professor of Educational Studies and Director of the Summer Writing Program at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Her primary interests include adolescent response to literature, multicultural literature, and the teaching of literary theory to high school students.

A classroom teacher for fifteen years, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm is currently Professor of English Education at Boise State University. He works in local schools as part of a Virtual Professional Development Site Network sponsored by the Boise State Writing Project, and regularly teaches middle and high school students.


rave reviews forUncommon Core



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Grades K–5: $29.95, 232 pages, D15208-978-1-4522-5782-2

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There’s no shortage of books or services promising to bring teachers up to speed on the Common Core. But where’s the resource to help our linguistically and academically diverse students?

Maria Dove and Andrea Honigsfeld rise to the challenge and offer new hope.

Under the best of circumstances meeting the Common Core can be a challenge. But if you’re a teacher of linguistically or academically diverse students—and who isn’t these days—then that “challenge” may sometimes feel more like a “fantasy.” Finally, here are two expert educators who are bold enough, knowledgeable enough, and grounded enough to tackle this issue.

Available in two separate volumes, one for grades K–5 and one for grades 6–12, Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner will arm you with all the advice, tools, and strategies you need to build struggling learners’ language skills in today’s Common Core climate. With the help of these books, you’ll:

• Betterunderstandthe32ELAanchorstandards

• Learnmoreaboutthespecificskills“uncommonlearners”needtomasterthem

• Discovernewresearch-basedteachingstrategiesalignedtoeachstandard

• Maximize the effectiveness of collaboration and co-teaching

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