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In this excerpt from Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 2-5, the authors introduce and explain the EMPOWER framework that will empower your units and lessons for transformational teaching and learning.

This resource introduces the reader to the sections included in the book and their purpose.

Welcome to the book study for Mark Weakland’s How to Prevent Reading Difficulties. We have deliberately designed this book study to be collaborative so that most weeks the group is splitting the reading and recommended in-class activities among the members of the book study.

Read the foreword written by Douglas Fisher.

This introduction explains the root of this book and why it was written. This excerpt also provides an overview of the content and key points to explore in the book.

Explore the structure of I Hate Reading. 

"This book is an attempt to reconsider and reexamine reading joy, reading achievement, and affective processes. It is intended to help educators understand and implement the practices I discovered that mentor students through a process of becoming engaged in their reading development." - I Hate Reading

Learn about the ubiquity of shame, shame in the classroom, from "good readers" to authentic readers, vulnerability as a path to authentic reading, and more in the first chapter of I Hate Reading. 

In this introduction from Text Structures and Fables, Gretchen Bernabei and Jayne Hover outline the many ways fables are the perfect teaching tools to encourage thorough, exploratory thinkers and writers, and preview practical teaching methods to introduce fables to your classroom.

Welcome to the book study for Melanie Meehan and Kelsey Sorum's The Responsive Writing Teacher, Grades K-5: A Hands-on Guide to Child-Centered, Equitable Instruction. We have deliberately designed this book study to be collaborative so that most weeks the group is splitting the recommended in-class activities among the members of the book study.

This resource includes some quotes gathered from throughout the book that might be useful in the classroom.

This resource shares how students can practice bouncing in and out of formal and informal language through text translations.