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Evidence-Based Ways to Reduce Anxiety, Boost Engagement, and Increase Comprehension Across Classrooms
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Embrace movement, big and small, to fuel learning success.
Learning happens in our whole bodies, not just in our heads. Movement, both big and small, unconscious and conscious, fuels our success, and yet we don’t often acknowledge the body’s role in learning. In The Body-Brain Connection, author Gravity Goldberg explores the powerful relationship between physical activity and cognitive function. This comprehensive guide delves into evidence-based strategies that can help reduce anxiety, boost student engagement, and enhance comprehension in all K-12 classrooms.
Helpful features guide your learning with:
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Prime Yourself personal experiences to bring your attention to key ideas in each section
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Guiding questions to set the purpose for your learning
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A Look in the Mirror self-reflection feature to encourage application of the material into your own life and teaching practice
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Summaries of key ideas and practices for each chapter
Whether you're a teacher or school administrator, this innovative book offers valuable tools and techniques to foster a holistic approach to education, ensuring that students thrive both mentally and physically. It’s time we start paying more attention to our bodies to create an environment where we can all feel safer, be more integrated, and be more successful as readers, writers, and thinkers.
Active Learning
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40 Teaching Methods to Engage Students in Every Class and Every Subject
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Whether tweaking your existing strategies or finding new moves to quickly become your own, this is your go-to guide for designing active and engaging learning experiences for students.
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Grades 6-12
By Barry Gilmore & Gravity Goldberg
Read Aloud with Heart
Grades K-2
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Literacy Lessons That Build Community, Comprehension, and Cultural Competency
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Read Alouds with Heart
Grades 3-5
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Literacy Lessons That Build Community, Comprehension, and Cultural Competency
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Use thoughtfully chosen multicultural mentors texts to build classroom community and honor the identities of everyone in your class. Companion mini-lessons offer reading strategies, discussion questions, and carry-over coaching prompts designed to hone students' comprehension skills, including character analysis, determining themes, and exploring perspectives. A must-have resource in every classroom!
Helping students in grades 3–5 become strong, independent readers requires thoughtful planning, active listening, accurate tracking, and personalized follow up.
But, many teachers don’t have the time, the tools, or the experience to plan effective conferring conversations that will allow them to assess students’ individual independent reading development and help them become stronger, joyful readers.
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With the Teacher’s Toolkit for Independent Reading, teachers will have everything they need to prepare, model, track, and manage effective, student-centered conferring sessions with confidence.
Pamela Koutrakos offers tools and ready-to-go resources to help teachers put the inquiry-based structures, lessons, and routines from her first book, Word Study That Sticks, into action. Let students take charge of their learning while you gain time for differentiated instruction, and make word study fun for students!
