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Scholastic Professional offers a robust selection of titles and professional tools that will help you overcome the challenges that you face in the classroom every day. Our publishing list includes an expansive selection of Teaching Strategy books on a variety of topics including Fluency for struggling learners, positive teacher talk, the craft of writing, and strategies for ELL students.

» Buy Now	Differentiating Reading Instruction for Success With RTI Margo Southall Grades K - 3 Margo Southall shares her classroom-tested tools for differentiating reading instruction within an RTI framework: assessment strategies; when-then charts describing a menu of intervention options; targeted lessons and interventions in word recognition, fluency, and comprehension; techniques for forming and managing small groups; guidelines and practical tips for implementing Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions, and so much more.
» Buy Now	Essay Writing Made Easy With the Hourglass Organizer Jane Lierman; Elizabeth Louise Elliot Grades 5 & up Fifteen lessons developed by master writing teachers guide students to write thoughtful, well-structured essays—from informative to persuasive. These step-by-step lessons use a simple, but effective graphic organizer to show how the parts of an essay work together to create a cohesive whole.
» Buy Now	4 Keys to Successful Classroom Management: PD Binder Kelly Bergman Grades 1 - 5 How do teachers make every minute count—setting up schedules, the classroom space, and routines—so they can do their most effective teaching and get children into the groove of independent learning? In this DVD teachers visit classrooms where they'll discover dozens of easy-to-do, time-saving procedures and tools—from instant transitions to stress-free homework folders.
» Buy Now	25 Essential Language Arts Strategies to Help Striving Readers Succeed Michael F. Opitz ; Roland Schendel Grades 1 - 6 Discover how to harness the full teaching force of the integrated language arts—reading, writing, talking, listening, and visually viewing—to support your striving readers as they work their way toward reading proficiency.
» Buy Now	The Trait Crate® Grade 6 Ruth Culham Grades 6 In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing—ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
» Buy Now	The Trait Crate® Grade 7 Ruth Culham Grades 7 In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing—ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
» Buy Now	The Trait Crate® Grade 8 Ruth Culham Grades 8 In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing—ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
» Buy Now	Systematic Word Study for Grade 1 Cheryl M. Sigmon Grade 1 Fun, fast, interactive lessons that teach print and language concepts while helping students develop greater fluency in reading and writing. Activities teach and reinforce phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, blending and segmenting sounds, syllabication, rhymes, high frequency words and more.
» Buy Now	Systematic Word Study for Grades 2 - 3 Cheryl M. Sigmon Grades 2 - 3 Fun, fast, interactive lessons that engage students in word study and help them develop greater fluency in reading and writing. Activities teach and reinforce syllabication, onsets and rhymes, prefixes and suffixes, high frequency words, parts of speech, and more.
» Buy Now	Systematic Word Study for Grades 4 - 6 Cheryl M. Sigmon Grades 4 - 6 Fun, fast, interactive lessons that engage students in word study and help them develop greater fluency in reading and writing. Activities teach and reinforce syllabication, prefixes and suffixes, commonly misspelled words, parts of speech, and more.
» Buy Now	Managing a Differentiated Classroom: A Practical Guide Carol Ann Tomlinson; Marcia B. Imbeau Grades K - 8 An indispensable resource from the foremost expert on differentiation! From pre-assessments of students' needs, interests, and learning profiles, to instructional strategies and on-going assessment ideas, to task cards, rubrics, and final assessments, everything you need to successfully differentiate is here.
» Buy Now	All About ADHD Linda J. Pfiffner Grades K - 8 Linda Pfiffner has revised and updated her best-selling guide to teaching students with ADHD in the mainstream classroom. This rich resource will support you as you support your students with ADHD, so that all students in your classroom can experience success.
» Buy Now	Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom Barbara L. Boroson Grades K - 8 This engaging and informative book gives you the knowledge you need to understand students with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and the strategies you can use to help them succeed in school.
» Buy Now	Teaching Writing With Mentor Texts in the Primary Classroom Nicole Groeneweg Grades 1 - 3 From selecting a mentor text and matching it to a writing topic to teaching the focus lesson and inviting students to write on their own, Nicole Groeneweg shows teachers how to use favorite picture books as powerful models to teach key writing skills.
» Buy Now	Integrating Test Prep Into Reading & Writing Workshops Nancy Jennison Grades 3 - 8 Literacy expert Nancy Jennison has more than 18 years experience in successfully preparing students for standardized reading and writing tests, so she knows what works to raise those scores. In this comprehensive resource, she presents her strategies for integrating the skills students need to succeed on the tests with best practice teaching and your school's curriculum.
» Buy Now	Mastering the Mechanics: Grades 6-8 Linda Hoyt; Lynnette Brent   Grades 6 - 8 A collection of easy-to-use lessons that focus on grammar, spelling, punctuation, editing and use of conventions in writing.
» Buy Now	Lessons for Guided Writing: Nonfiction Mary Sullivan; Kelli Holden   Grades 5 & Up This thoughtful guide offers lessons and strategies for all stages of writing nonfiction: collecting information from print and nonprint sources, evaluating and analyzing the data, and sharing it with authentic audiences in meaningful ways.
» Buy Now	Building Independent Readers With Interactive Read-Alouds & Shared Reading Valorie Falco; Rochelle Soloway   Grades 2 - 5 Guided practice is a key component of reading instruction that is too often shortchanged in busy classrooms. Reading experts and veteran teachers Valorie Falco and Rochelle Soloway share their research-based, classroom-tested strategies for filling this instructional gap.
» Buy Now	Using Read-Alouds to Teach Vocabulary Karen J. Kindle Grades K - 2 Veteran teacher Karen Kindle offers practical strategies for effectively building children's vocabulary. She shows teachers how to select robust words from read alouds and infuse them into classroom talk throughout day.
» Buy Now	Writing Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard: Grades 2-4 Lola M. Schaefer Grades 2 - 4 These easy, step-by-step lessons use the tools of the whiteboard to help students identify the elements of excellent writing and then apply them in their own work.
» Buy Now	The Fluent Reader in Action: 5 and Up Tim Rasinski; Gay Fawcett; Kristin Lems; Robert T. Ackland Grades 5 & Up Fluency is essential for comprehension, but how exactly do you teach it? From Readers Theater and Repeated Reading of Song Lyrics to Poetry Podcasts and Fluency Masterpiece Galleries, you'll see how teachers from all over the country have incorporated effective fluency practice into their literacy instruction.
» Buy Now	The Fluent Reader in Action: PreK-4 Tim Rasinski; Gay Fawcett; Kristin Lems; Robert T. Ackland Grades K - 4 Fluency is essential for comprehension, but how exactly do you teach it? From Readers Theater and Repeated Reading of Song Lyrics to Poetry Podcasts and Fluency Masterpiece Galleries, you'll see how teachers from all over the country have incorporated effective fluency practice into their literacy instruction.
» Buy Now	Quick Start to Writing Workshop Success Janiel Wagstaff Grades 2 - 5 Get writing workshop up and running with these classroom-tested ideas from veteran teacher Janiel Wagstaff. Janiel shares the essentials: the materials and routines you need to get kids writing right from the start, and the management and teaching ideas to keep them going strong.
» Buy Now	The PreK-2 Writing Classroom Hansen, Jane; Davis, Robyn; Evertson, Jenesse; Freeman, Tena; Suskind, Dorothy; Tower, Holly Grades PreK - 2 Learn what young children can do as competent, confident writers when we create writing classrooms that support their developmental patterns and provide them with multiple opportunities to write for numerous purposes across the curriculum.
» Buy Now	Success with RTI Cooper, J. David; Robinson, Michael D.; Kiger, Nancy D. Grades K - 5 All Response to Intervention (RTI) models show core instruction as the foundation of teaching reading. As schools face the challenges of implementing RTI, however, they are discovering that many of the problems they face actually relate to their core instruction. This book provides practical, research-based support to help teachers in grades K - 5 improve their core instruction and manage the three tiers of intervention that comprise RTI.
» Buy Now	First Lessons for Beginning Writers Lola M. Schaefer Grades K - 1 Simple yet powerful, this collection of mini-lessons is the perfect introduction to writing for our youngest learners. Writer and teacher Lola M. Schaefer shares her classroom-tested ideas for teaching children how to find and focus ideas, use drawing to brainstorm and organize, choose powerful verbs, and so much more.
» Buy Now	Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits: Middle School Ruth Culham; James Blasingame; Raymond Coutu; Grades 6 - 8 Becoming a better writer begins with reading well-written books and trying what their authors do successfully. Culham, Blasingame, and Coutu have selected 150 fiction and nonfiction books by master writers, annotated them, and organized them by trait.
» Buy Now	A Practical Guide to Tiering Instruction in the Differentiated Classroom Sarah Armstrong; Stephanie Haskins Grades 3 - 8 In this practical guide, teacher and brain-based learning expert Sarah Armstrong offers the tools and techniques that make designing tiered lessons manageable. She guides teachers through pre-assessing before a unit, identifying scaffolds necessary to support students, and focusing instruction around essential understandings.
» Buy Now	The Struggling Writer Janet Angelillo Grades 3 - 6 Struggling writers need personalized, focused, and assessment-informed instruction and, to this end, Angelillo shows teachers how to provide their students with three levels of support: 1) self-monitoring strategies that enable students to start writing, build writing stamina, manage their time, and stay focused on a topic; 2) classroom community resources which create a safe, supportive environment in which to write; and 3) best practices drawn from writer's workshop including student choice in writing topics, discovering one's voice as a writer, and time out to conference, reflect, and assess.
» Buy Now	Teaching Nonfiction Writing: A Practical Guide Laura Robb Grades 5 & Up In this fascinating look at nonfiction writing, Laura Robb shares the classroom-tested lessons she developed after interviewing prominent nonfiction writers about their practice. From finding topics and writing leads, to including voice and nonfiction features, to using nonfiction text structures such as compare and contrast effectively, you'll find a wealth of mini-lessons on all aspects of the writing process, focused specifically on nonfiction writing.
» Buy Now	Teaching Vocabulary Words With Multiple Meanings Rebecca Lamb Grades 4 - 6 These quick and easy activities help intermediate-grade students build vocabulary and comprehension by learning to use the right word in the right place at the right time. Research-based lessons include daily, formatted "word-of-the-week" activities designed to systematically teach and reinforce different meanings for each word.
» Buy Now	Differentiated Activities for Teaching Key Comprehension Skills: Grades 2 - 3 Martin Lee; Marcia Miller Grades 2 - 3 In this collection of standards-based activities, teachers find the leveled materials they need to differentiate comprehension instruction for the range of learners in their classes. Each activity set features a high-interest reading passage that students read independently.
» Buy Now	Differentiated Activities for Teaching Key Comprehension Skills: Grades 4 - 6 Martin Lee; Marcia Miller Grades 4 - 6 In this collection of standards-based activities, teachers find the leveled materials they need to differentiate comprehension instruction for the range of learners in their classes. Each activity set features a high-interest reading passage that students read independently.
» Buy Now	Fresh Takes on Centers: Reading Comprehension Mary Beth Allen Grades 3 - 5 In this comprehensive resource, veteran teacher, reading specialist, and staff developer Mary Beth Allen shares her time-tested organizational tips and tools for easy-to-implement, research-based reading centers. Reproducible activity packets come complete with student directions, templates, record sheets, and graphic organizers to facilitate independent learning.
» Buy Now	Fresh Takes on Centers: Writing Mary Beth Allen Grades 3 - 5 In this comprehensive resource, veteran teacher, reading specialist, and staff developer Mary Beth Allen shares her time-tested organizational tips and tools for easy-to-implement, research-based writing centers. Reproducible activity packets come complete with student directions, templates, record sheets, and graphic organizers to facilitate independent learning.
» Buy Now	Essential Strategies for Word Study Timothy V. Rasinski; Jerry Zutell Grades 2 - 8 Students learn all about words, inside and out, as they sort and spell, harvest and map, define and design, investigate and analyze, decode and use words-all toward the aim of becoming more effective and efficient readers and writers.
» Buy Now	Teaching Comprehension With Nonfiction Read Alouds Dawn Little Grades 3 - 6 In this thoughtful new resource, a master teacher shares her framework for presenting powerful read-aloud lessons that teach students the comprehension skills they need to read nonfiction.
» Buy Now	Using Benchmark Papers to Teach Writing With the Traits: Middle School Ruth Culham Grades 6 - 8 Trait expert Ruth Culham has created a diverse set of papers, assessed and annotated them, and designed an interactive whiteboard CD of exemplars so teachers and students can use them as the focus of trait-based writing instruction.
» Buy Now	100 Trait-Specific Comments: Middle School Ruth Culham Grades 6 - 8 In this guide, Ruth Culham provides 100 trait-specific comments that address essential writing skills. The comments are correlated to the all-new middle school scoring guides, according to six performance levels–rudimentary, emerging, developing, refining, strong, and exceptional–making it easy to pinpoint areas of need and target instruction.
» Buy Now	Kindergarten in Photographs Jasmine Greene Grades K Take a tour of a vibrant and learning-rich kindergarten classroom. By browsing through dozens of full-color photographs and reading insightful captions and other clear descriptions of this dynamic environment, teachers will learn what they can do to support students' academic and social growth in kindergarten and provide a solid foundation for future learning.
» Buy Now	Literacy Lessons to Help Kids Get Fit & Healthy Michael F. Opitz; Jennifer A. Davis-Duerr Grades 1 - 6 In this inspiring, breakthrough book, nationally respected educator and fitness expert Michael F. Opitz together with veteran teacher Jennifer Davis-Duerr share their secrets for combining literacy-rich, ready-to-use lessons with easy-to-implement fitness exercises.
» Buy Now	Planning & Managing Effective Reading Instruction Across the Content Areas Deborah Corpus; Ann Giddings Grades 3 - 8 In our time-starved, standards-driven world, it's essential to make the most of every classroom minute. This research-based, practical guide shows teachers how to seamlessly integrate reading strategy instruction across the curriculum and across the day, so students use strategies in a purposeful way that makes the instruction stick.
» Buy Now	Teaching Reading in Middle School (2nd Edition) Laura Robb Grades 5 & Up In this completely revised and updated edition of a best-selling classic, master teacher Laura Robb draws on current research and her most recent classroom experiences with students all over the country, to present abundant new material, including fresh literacy vignettes that showcase lessons and learning experiences.
» Buy Now	Teaching Students to Make Writing Visual and Vivid David Lee Finkle Grades 5 & Up It's all about the pictures. When student writers rely primarily on vague statements, adjectives, and adverbs, their writing doesn't score well on tests, and worse, sounds generic, voiceless, and dull. Creating vivid pictures is the key to good writing.
» Buy Now	The Fluent Reader (2nd Edition) Timothy Rasinski Grades 1 - 8 Tim Rasinski’s groundbreaking book has been updated to include coverage of the latest research on fluency, teaching strategies based on that research, new classroom vignettes, and suggestions for using a variety of texts to teach fluency such as poetry, speeches, and monologues and dialogues. Includes DVD with clips showing the strategies in action.