NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic, the
global children's publishing, education, and media company, is
releasing three essential professional books covering reading,
family and community engagement, and writing for K–12 educators as
they prepare for returning to school this fall: From Striving to
Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers by
Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward, Powerful Partnerships: A
Teacher's Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success by Dr.
Karen L. Mapp, Ilene Carver, and Jessica Lander, and The Writing Teacher's
Companion: Embracing Choice, Voice, Purpose & Play by
Ralph Fletcher.
These professional titles, which promote Scholastic Education's
commitment to a high-quality, core literacy curriculum, provide
educators with rich and practical guidance around reading,
connecting families and schools, and writing, to help students
reach their full potential. To learn more about Scholastic
Professional, visit: www.scholastic.com/scholasticprofessional.
From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable
Readers by Stephanie Harvey
and Annie Ward
- Literacy experts Stephanie
Harvey, President of Stephanie Harvey Consulting, and
Annie Ward, Assistant Superintendent
for Curriculum and Instruction for the Mamaroneck Union Free School
District in Westchester County,
NY, demonstrate how to effectively assess and support
striving readers so that they can become thriving readers. K–8
educators will learn how to use detailed, formative assessments to
craft targeted, personalized instruction that enables students to
find books that they love and engage in voluminous reading. This
professional resource incorporates ready-to-go lessons, practices,
and action steps as well as research that will help educators gain
an understanding of the reading process, use strength-based
performance data, and implement knowledge of high-quality
instruction. The book also comes with an extensive online resource
bank with downloadable assessments, "Top Ten" guides to share with
parents and administrators, and video clips of reading conferences
and book talks. Available October
2017 with pre-orders open now:
www.scholastic.com/FromStrivingToThriving
Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher's Guide to Engaging
Families for Student Success by Dr. Karen L.
Mapp, Ilene Carver, and Jessica Lander
- Senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education and Faculty Director of the Education
Policy and Management Master's Program, Dr. Karen L. Mapp, collaborates with Boston, MA educators Ilene Carver and Jessica
Lander to compose a guide highlighting the critical need for
engagement between schools and families. The book urges K–12
educators to evaluate their own core values and develop the mindset
necessary for fostering respectful, trusting, and effective
relationships with families to support student learning. Educators
will also have access to an online resource bank that can be used
for planning professional learning opportunities for educators and
family engagement events throughout the school year. Available
now: www.scholastic.com/PowerfulPartnerships
The Writing Teacher's Companion: Embracing Choice, Voice,
Purpose & Play by Ralph
Fletcher
- Educator, speaker, and award-winning author of best-selling
education professional books as well as titles for children and
young adults, Ralph Fletcher,
presents The Writing Teacher's Companion, a practical
guidebook to create, launch, and sustain an effective writer's
workshop in K–8 classrooms for both new and veteran teachers. The
new book emphasizes how encouraging choice, purpose, and play in
writing will help students find their voices and become strong and
passionate writers. Fletcher offers additional instructional
guidance via video clips available in an online resource bank.
Available now:
www.scholastic.com/WritingTeachersCompanion
"The range of comprehensive resources from Scholastic
Professional offers educators in-depth support from some of the
world's top education experts while helping them meet the diverse
needs of their students," said Greg
Worrell, President of Scholastic Education. "These new
professional books from Stephanie
Harvey, Annie Ward,
Ralph Fletcher, Dr. Karen L. Mapp, and her co-authors, Ilene Carver and Jessica
Lander, offer powerful tools and insights that will help
students and their families engage in meaningful reading, writing,
and learning year-round."
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