This innovative educational guide, written by Claudia Dunaway, challenges students to make six critical thinking and academic language strategies habits of mind. Students learn to rehearse their thinking and language, question strategically, use precise language, infer, detect what really matters, and discuss to build ideas together. Claudia Dunaway, MA, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and youth advocate in San Diego, California, who specializes in the areas of critical thinking, academic language, and literacy acquisition.
Information for teachers and parents on teaching and assessing reading, writing, and literacy. Timothy Shanahan is Distinguished Professor of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is Director of the Center for Literacy and chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. He is a principal investigator on the National Title I Study of Implementation and Outcomes: Early Childhood Language Development.
Information for educators about literacy, speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher are Professors of Literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. They have coauthored many educational books including Content Area Conversations with Carol Rothenberg.
Provides hundreds of inspirational videos of teachers and students working together in all grades and subjects. Watch educators engage students in a variety of discussions.