Classroom Management

The Teacher’ s Essential Guide Series

Jim Burke

For the busy teacher on-the-run, veteran teacher Jim Burke has created The Teacher ' s Essential Guide Series, a collection of slender, quick-read guides that offers you targeted solutions to your most pressing instructional needs. Burke ' s solutions are based on research and his experience as a veteran teacher.

Classroom Management is about not only creating an effective classroom environment but reducing teachers’ stress, increasing productivity— for both teachers and students— and ensuring a safe, equitable environment committed to the proposition that all kids can learn and succeed.

Effective Instruction will help you zone in on the essentials that really matter, streamlining and simplifying your teaching while boosting student engagement and achievement.

Each: 112 pages • Grades 6 – 12 • $ 9.99 SC-993446 • 978-0-439-93446-6 Classroom Management SC-993454 • 978-0-439-93454-1 Effective Instruction

About the Author Jim Burke is an English teacher at Burlingame High School, California. He has received numerous awards, including the NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award, the NCTE Conference on English Leadership Award, and the California Reading Association Hall of Fame Award. He served on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Committee on Adolescence and Young Adulthood English Language Arts Standards and recently worked with ACT on their high school English Language Arts standards.

Test Prep

Writing to Prompts for Success on the Test

Mary Rose

Lessons, activities, and tips for weaving writing test preparation into everyday lessons. Students will learn quick strategies for identifying the form of writing a prompt requires and how to use simple graphic organizers to organize their thoughts before writing.

96 pages • Grades 3 & Up • $ 14.99 SC-523459 • 978-0-545-23459-7

Standardized Test Practice: Long Reading Passages

Michael Priestley

Each includes 16 reproducible passages with test-format questions that help students succeed on standardized tests.

Each: 96 pages • $ 14.99 SC-508324 • 978-0-545-08324-9 Gr. 3 – 4 SC-508333 • 978-0-545-08333-1 Gr. 5 – 6 SC-508339 • 978-0-545-08339-3 Gr. 7 – 8

Standardized Test Practice: Writing

Michael Priestley

Each includes 25 reproducible mini-tests that help students prepare for and succeed on standardized tests.

Each: 64 pages • $ 11.99 SC-506401 • 978-0-545-06401-9 Gr. 3 – 4 SC-506402 • 978-0-545-06402-6 Gr. 5 – 6

Standardized Test Tutor

Michael Priestley

Students can work through the tests with a teacher, parent, or tutor— or on their own by reading the Test Tutor’ s helpful tips.

Integrating Test Prep Into Reading & Writing Workshops

Nancy Jennison

From analyzing your state test, integrating the skills into your workshops throughout the year, planning test-prep genre units of study for both reading and writing, and using differentiation strategies to give your struggling students a boost, it’ s all here!

240 pages • Grades 3 – 8 • $ 25.99 SC-514711 • 978-0-545-14711-8

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