Teaching Unscripted

If you are a K-2 teacher, have you ever asked: “During reading workshop, what kinds of meaningful work can students be doing independently, while I confer one-on-one or with small groups?” Lindsey Moses hears this common frustration among those who work with our youngest readers in her work with teachers around the country. That’s why Lindsey, along with First grade teacher Meridith Ogde...

On Today’s podcast — exploring science in children’s literature. Science is everywhere, in everything we do, see, and read. All books offer possibilities for talk about science in the illustrations and the texts… once you know how to look for them. Children’s literature is a natural avenue to explore the seven crosscutting concepts described in the Next Generation Science Standards. In their new b...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast,  The Writing Strategies Book  author, Jennifer Serravallo. In 2015,  The Reading Strategies Book  made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students’ needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies...

It’s not often your favorite author asks you to co-write their next book, but that’s exactly what happened to Ken Lindblom when he met Leila Christenbury at a NCTE lunch a couple of years ago. Ken was telling Leila how influential her book,  Making the Journey , had been to him as he started his teaching career and then to his education students. Leila suggested that with the right partn...

How do you define play and choice time in early childhood classrooms? According to Renée Dinnerstein, play is an engine that drives learning. She writes, "during choice time, children choose to play in a variety of centers that have been carefully designed and equipped to scaffold children’s natural instinct for play.” In her book  Choice Time , Renée gives us everything we need to set u...

How can we help students think critically about the community they’re speaking to online while giving them a real voice? How do we help our students create coherent arguments through social media? Kristen Hawley Turner and Troy Hicks say it’s not just about creating a podcast or blog, it’s about building an argument. On today’s podcast we’re hearing from co-authors Kristen Turner an...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, we're exploring credo.  In 2013, Heinemann celebrated the legacy of  Don Graves  at a special breakfast during the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Boston. Three years later, at the 2016 NCTE conference, we wanted to reprise this moment by inviting those in attendance to consider the theme of credo. The event was hosted...

While Bullying Awareness month may be over, the need certainly is still with us. In today’s podcast we continue our conversation on the resource,  Bullying Hurts . In part 2 of our conversation, co-author  Lester Laminack  says that the term bullying is in danger of being overused which could cause it to lose its effectiveness. He says there’s a difference between a student who...

Recent research shows that punishing students who bully is not enough and that we must begin every child’s education by establishing relationship skills and building empathy among students. October is National Bullying Prevention Month and all month long on the Heinemann blog we’ve been sharing blogs, resources and articles from Heinemann authors Lester Laminack and Reba Wadsworth. In 2012, L...

What really matters to your students? They might say the issues in front of them at school and in life. When students inquire into those issues and they’re given an opportunity for their arguments to be read by the city council or published in the local newspaper, they’re eager to research and find relevant information. Copyright Heinemann Publishing 2016 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c...

Author Ralph Fletcher wrote the book on Writing Workshops, literately. Heinemann published Writing Workshop, the Essential Guide, from Ralph Fletcher and Co-author JoAnn Portalupi in 2001. In it they wrote: “Students who learn to write well truly have one of the most powerful tools imaginable." Copyright Heinemann Publishing 2016 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priva...

Authors Kristi Mraz and Christine Hertz want to change how we look at our classrooms. They say we need to think beyond the idea of "good in school" and ask; will our students be good in the world? Will these students have empathy, will they be resilient, can they face challenges with flexibility? These are just some of the traits Kristi and Christine explore in their book: A Mindset for Learning:...

How do we get students to “ache with caring” about their writing instead of mechanically stringing words together? This is the question author Georgia Heard asks in her new book Heart Maps: Helping Students Create and Craft Authentic Writing.  Copyright Heinemann Publishing 2016 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-s...

What comes to mind when you think about the traditional 5-paragraph essay? Do you cringe? Sadly, many students only know “essay” as a 5-paragraph, tightly structured writing assignment that must check all the boxes of a standardized formula. How did essays in school get so far away from essays in the world? In her newest book,  The Journey is Everything , Katherine Bomer makes a cas...

How many times during a writing workshop have you thought, “If only I could clone myself!” Well, authors Dana Johansen and Sonja Cherry-Paul have a solution for more one-on-one teaching time during your writing workshop: flipped learning. In their new book, Flip Your Writing Workshop , they explain how a blended learning approach allows students access to instruction and support when they need it,...

In her newest book,  Reading Science , author Jennifer Altieri reminds us that literacy skills aren’t add-ons to the science class—they are critical parts of instruction. Since science requires specialized literacy demands, students should be prepared for, not only today’s science class, but for future science classes and the world beyond the classroom. Jennifer writes that a love o...

In When Kids Can't Read,  Kylene Beers offers teachers the comprehensive handbook they've needed to help readers improve their skills. Recently, Kylene hosted a Facebook Live Q&A on this book. We've taken the audio of the conversation and made part of The Heinemann Podcast. Copyright Heinemann Publishing 2016 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti...

Michael Optiz and Michael Ford discuss strategies and considerations for successfully implementing the Response to Intervention (RTI) framework and providing differentiated instruction to help... Visit Heinemann.com for K-College professional development books and services, teaching systems, and innovative multimedia tools for educators. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...

Donald Graves (1930-2010), a long-time University of New Hampshire literature professor and prolific educational author, is interviewed by Penny Kittle about his life and career as a writer. Learn... Visit Heinemann.com for K-College professional development books and services, teaching systems, and innovative multimedia tools for educators. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali...