Read a quotation from this collection every morning, or any time you need a lift in spirits, to remind you

why the work that you do with and for students and teachers is important

Quotations About Compassion

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. ~John F. Kennedy Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people . A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough . ~Franklin D. Roosevelt I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become . ~Oprah Winfrey No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt You cannot do a kindness too soon , for you never know how soon it will be too late . ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Kind words can be short and easy to speak , but their echoes are truly endless. ~Mother Teresa Our attitude toward life determines lifes attitude towards us. ~Earl Nightingale Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. ~Martin Luther King He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world . ~Marcus Aurelius Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace . ~Buddha To the world you might be one person , but to one person you might be the world . ~J. W. von Goethe You cannot teach a person anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. ~Galileo Love doesnt make the world go round , love is what makes the ride worthwhile . ~Elizabeth Browning Whether you think you can or you think you cantyou are right! ~Henry Ford Well done is better than well said . ~Benjamin Franklin Those having torches will pass them on to others. ~Plato If you want others to be happy, practice compassion . If you want to be happy, practice compassion . ~Dalai Lama There is no one way to be human . ~Robert Fulgham Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward , safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. ~Lady Diana Spencer The past, the present and the future are really one: They are today. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ~Anne Frank

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How to encourage students to communicate, create, and be compassionate of others Kathleen Gould Lundy & Larry Swartz
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-270-8 $24.95

This passionate book is commited to building respectful relationships among students, teachers, administrators, and the wider school community. It explores ways to help kids care more about their work and each other, and ways to help teachers care more about their classrooms and students. Using active, engaging, relevant, open-ended dialogue and activities, students will be encouraged to engage in events, ideas, themes, texts, stories, and relationships from different perspectives. They will learn ways to represent their new understandings in innovative and creative ways. Ideal for any educator, at any level of experience, this timely book relates simple but profound strategies for initiating and maintaining respectful discussion, promoting collaboration over competition, and confronting difficult issues such as bullying and exclusion.

From inside Creating Caring Classrooms

Events That Build Classroom Community What are some classroom events you have introduced to build community in your own classroom? Have you considered the following? Which of these events have you tried? Which might you try? Class trip Potluck Daily Read-Aloud Hot topics drawn from news Sharing of personal stories events Class newsletter SMART Board activity Celebration of the learning with Class meeting others Greet em at the door! Science fair Board Game Day Play presentation Special days (e.g., Funky Hair Preparation for an assembly Day, Hat Day) Publishing of student work Artist in the classroom Creation of a mural Talent show Buddying with another class Choral speaking Classroom helpers Shared reading Creation of bulletin-board Birthday celebrations! displays Student of the Week Inquiry projects Extracurricular clubs Pen pals Class mission statement Where are you from? maps School or class T-shirts Class quilt Baking Fundraising project Being an audience for a film, play, Singing together or concert www.pembrokepublishers.com Pembroke Publishers 538 Hood Rd., Markham, ON, L3R 3K9 1-800-997-9807 fax 1-800-339-5568 Poetry anthology Snack days Creation of a cooperative book Art show/Art gallery

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Ive Got Something to Say!

How student voices inform our teaching David Booth
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-289-0 $24.95

When students know that their voices count, they become more engaged with and connected to both their learning and issues that will affect their education. In this timely book, discover how to inspire students to buy into their own learning by giving them a voice in determining, organizing, structuring, and responding to what is happening in their classrooms and school. Throughout the book, transcripts from real student dialogues and conversations elaborate on a huge variety of interactions. At once practical and thoughtful, the book encourages offering opportunities that will challenge students thinking and Visiting teacher as baron: Well, be sure and keep out of the way. (looks ofthe their peers in meaningful ways, so they constantly awaythat from farmers ) Watch out, there, Sir Daigle . . are . What are you reflecting people on their learning. It aims to increase, modify, and deepen student understanding staring at me for? collaborative and Making student voices count is David through as village leader: Itscooperative just that weevents. have never seen knights on our a before. first step toward meaningful citizenship. Students will recognize when they farms 1: voice, Why were the crops Student have when they are trampled? marginalized, and what they can do to be heard. Visiting teacher as baron: They got in the way of the horses. Student 1: Thats not a good enough reason.

From inside Ive Got Something to Say

Teachers and Students: Moving into a Learning Partnership

When the class began exploring the story through drama, there was some laughter, but before long, the students were inside the work. The language began to reflect their degree of commitment, and as they moved in and out of belief, their language power fluctuated. The original story seemed far away at the end of the lesson, but in retelling it at the conclusion of the work, the details fell into place. The concept of knight was explored in a very different manner from that of the book. I felt it important to help the students build a bigger frame for the word knight, and I had to work in role along with them to refocus the work when they could not see the consequences of their actions. It was important that they explore the position of the baron and the reason behind the killing of the girls father. Many of my tentative suggestions were rejected. I had to push hard to slow down the acceptance of the knight by the villagers so that the students could begin to put together the whole picture of this society. In discussion away from the baron and knight, the language was informal, and the role commitment, minimal. It required the theatre tension of the baron or knight to stimulate thoughtful language response. Of course, not all students were talking constantly, but there were times when all were involved, listening and observing in an emotionally connected way. The students who generated the transcript above were working as a classroom community, tackling a historical issue in role, working collaboratively to have their voices heard. In many of the classroom communities that I have observed over the years, a positive partnership between teacher and students has had a supportive and enabling effect on how the learning developed. I realized that, in these instances, the teachers pay attention to individuals, offer help until they can proceed alone, encourage them to compete with themselves rather than with others make certain all are involved Pembroke Publishers 538 Hood Rd., Markham, ON, L3R 3K9 1-800-997-9807 fax 1-800-339-5568 www.pembrokepublishers.com explain and discuss classroom and school rules listen with interest to their experiences acknowledge their feelings

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The Bully-Go-Round
Literacy and arts strategies for promoting bully awareness in the classroom Larry Swartz
32-pg ipbook ISBN 978-1-55138-285-2 $12.95

Professional Development
Conquering the Crowded Curriculum
Kathleen Gould Lundy
128 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-294-4 $24.95 coming in May 2014
Conquering the Crowded Curriculum
Kathleen Gould Lundy

Combat school harrassment with powerful and positive ways for students to connect. Help your students avoid being caught in the cycle of the bully, the bullied, and the bystander, and build a better school together.

This practical book illustrates ways to focus in on the big ideas, and take the confusion out of Com ing Soon! packed curriculum documents. It offers simple ways to use inquiry, innovation, identity, and integration as frameworks for delivering curriculum.

Desperately Seeking Solutions

Helping students build problem solving skills to meet lifes many challenges Kathy Paterson
96 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-247-0 $24.95

Students at Risk, 2nd Edition

Cheryll Duquette
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-286-9 $24.95

Help students (and teachers!) meet problems head-on with this 5-step plan for handling a challenge from defining the problem, through considering options, to taking action.

A practical guide for working with all students in the regular classroom students with different learning styles, intelligences, and backgrounds, as well as exceptionalities such as autism spectrum disorders, mental health problems, learning disabilities, and more.

Learning to Learn
Student activities for developing work, study, and exam-writing skills Mike Coles, Chas White & Pip Brown
112 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-153-4 $18.95

Creating Caring Classrooms

How to encourage students to communicate, create, and be compassionate of others Kathleen Gould Lundy & Larry Swartz
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-270-8 $24.95

An in-depth look at the 7 major factors that are essential to effective learning at any age: good time management, note taking, library and research skills, reading strategies, learning techniques, essay writing, and exam writing and preparation.

This passionate book is commited to building respectful relationships among students, teachers, and the school community. It is about helping kids care more about their work and each other, and helping teachers care about their classrooms.

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Good Books Matter

How to choose and use childrens literature to help children grow as readers Shelley Stagg Peterson & Larry Swartz
184 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-232-6 $24.95

Are you wondering how to use quality literature to turn every student into an eager reader? This valuable resource offers guidance on selecting books, strategies for specific grade levels, suggestions for extension, and tips for assessment. It is Color profile: Disabled organized around the major genres traditional literature, picture books, Composite Default screen novels, nonfiction, poetry, and multicultural texts that will inspire readers. This comprehensive book is rooted in the belief that educators must consider and offer a wide range of choice to ensure that students read good books. It argues that the choices kids make about what they read should be governed by their interests and desire to learn, not by a grade or reading level. This easy-tonumber of guide Canadian bookyou awards for The Crazy understanding Man, a story set the Prairies use will help promote a deeper ofin books and reading, that describes a disabled girls friendship with a man with a mental disorder. and help you use good books to broaden and enrich the lives and learning of Several verse novels have been written for young adult readers. Jinx by the students in your care. Margaret Wild is a powerful verse novel about identity, loss, and love. The work of Australian author Steven Herrick can be recognized by the prose that comprises his novels about troubled teenagers: The Simple Gift, By the River, and The Wolf. The Brimstone Journals by Ron Koertge presents a haunting series of poems by fictional high-school students who contemplate the violence existing From inside Good Books Matter in their lives.
MULTI-GENRE APPROACHES

The multi-genre approach makes for an interesting twist of reading a novel. In his award-winning book Monster, Walter Dean Myers tells the story about the Transcripts, which present the murder trial of a 16-year-old through diary entries, courtroom transcripts, and authentic conversation of characters, the teenagers imagined film script that helps him come to terms with the course are important features of the novels his life has taken. In Shooter, Myers uses interviews, reports, and journal entries Days of Tears by Julius Lester, Seek by to tell the story of a tragic shooting at a high school. Paul Fleischman, and Nothing but the In a more humorous vein, Barry Boyhound by Andy Spearman is the story a Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi. boy who feels and acts like a canine after a flea bite turns his human brain into that of a dog. Skimming through the book, readers can see Spearmans clever use of maps, lists, photographs, exposition, diagrams, captions, a time line, and scripts that feature conversations between two fleas. In the The Fruit Bowl Project by Sarah Durkee, a middle-school teacher arranges for a rock superstar to teach her Grade 8 students, who each tell a story about the same topic in the style of a rap, a poem, a monologue, a screenplay, haiku, and more. Naked Bunyip Dancing by Steven Herrick looks at a wacky year from the point of view of sixth-graders who are under the spell of Carey the Hairy, a teacher who introduces his class to new activities, such as writing punk poetry and belly dancing. Many novels are written as diaries. This format gives the opportunity for a story told in first-person and invites the reader to learn about the lives of characters from their first-hand views of the world. In The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes Novels written as diaries or notebook entries include the titles The Amazing series by Anne Mazer, the main character reflects on everyday events, and these Life of Birds: The Nineteen Day thoughts are presented in a different color to accompany the Mazers narrative. Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney includes cartoon drawings, and student by Gary Paulsen, A Gathering of Days: print written on the lines of a journal. For mature readers, Sherman Alexies A New England Girls Journal 183032 novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is the story of a teenager by Joan W. Blos, Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, The Secret named Arnold who laments his life on a Spokane Indian Reservation. When a Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by teacher pleads with Arnold to get a better life, the boy switches to a rich white Sue Townsend, and the Anastasia school and becomes as much of an outcast as he was in his own community. Krupnik series by Lois Lowry. Another humorous novel, Spud by John van de Ruit, is written in journal forPembroke Publishers 538 Hood Rd., Markham, ON, L3R 3K9 1-800-997-9807 fax 1-800-339-5568 www.pembrokepublishers.com mat. This book invites young adult readers into the mind of John Spud Milton as he goes through the stages of puberty at a South African private school. The world of electronic communication is represented in a number of new

Information Literacy
Q Tasks
How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers Carol Koechlin & Sandi Zwaan
144 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-197-8 $24.95

Books & Reading

Reading Doesnt Matter Anymore
Shattering the myths of literacy David Booth
176 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-202-9 $16.95

Help students to improve research skills with this step-by-step approach to critical thinking. Kids will learn to ask real questions that focus on understanding and give them ownership over their learning.

12 simple steps to revolutionize the way we see kids and reading. This frank and open book includes discussion of crucial topics such as redefining reading, understanding the role of technology, exploring words, and much more.

Asking Better Questions, 2nd Edition

Norah Morgan & Juliana Saxton
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-209-8 $24.95

Lifes Literacy Lessons

Stories and poems for teachers Steven L. Layne
96 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-988-0 $20.95

This comprehensive guide to inquiry clarifies why questions are so important; promotes a 3-part classification of questions; offers models, techniques, and activities to encourage better questioning; and much, much more.

This poignant collection of stories and poems honours educators for the often difficult and always essential work they do with students of all ages. The book highlights the tears and laughter, challenges and rewards that inspire us.

Building Info Smarts

How to work with all kinds of information and make it your own Carol Koechlin & Sandi Zwaan
32-pg ipbook ISBN 978-1-55138-226-5 $12.95

Literacy, Libraries, and Learning

Using books and online resources to promote reading, writing, and research Ray Doiron & Marlene Asselin
128 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-196-1 $23.95

This innovative flipbook shows students how to identify their learning style as they build important information literacy skills. As they work with the data they gather, students are encouraged to build personal understanding so their work reflects original thought.

This thought-provoking look at the role of the teacher-librarian offers a number of suggestions for reinventing the school library from promoting reading for pleasure, to encouraging integration of technology, to supporting research that respects copyright.

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Canada and the Nobel Prize

Biographies, portraits, and fascinating facts Harry Black
128 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-150-3 $18.95

Todays teens have a broad range of interests as their literacy skills increase, its the perfect time to broaden the scope of their reading to match those interests. Alice Munros 2013 Nobel Prize win offers a wonderful opportunitiy to explore a new genre, biography, and learn more about reading and writing via the perfect models: authors! In addition to his recent work on Alice Munro (featured below ), Harry Blacks Canada and the Nobel Prize offers a chance to explore the work of other literary greats, such as Ernest Hemingway, as well as other great thinkers, innovators, and inventors. Chronicling the lives of Canadian Prize recipients, as well as details of foreign Prize winners time in Canada, this thoughtful and beautiful book is sure to have a story to intrigue and inspire every student.
Scan the QR code for the full biography of Alice Munro online, or visit: http://www.pembrokepublishers.com/giveaway/munro

As a companion to Canada and the Nobel Prize

Alice Munro
1931 Literature 2013

Words & art 2013 by Harry Black. Pembroke Publishers. All rights reserved. Permission to copy for classroom use. For more Canadian connections, see Canada and the Nobel Prize by Harry Black. ISBN 978-1-55138-150-3. $24.95

everal years ago we published a book about Canada and the Nobel Prize. In it, we outlined the history of the prize established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in 1901 and awarded each year in five categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace. An economics prize was introduced later. Canada and the Nobel Prize profiles the many Canadians who have received this prestigious award, beginning with Frederick Banting and his 1923 award in Medicine for the discovery of insulin. Throughout the years, Canadians have been well-represented in all categories except Literature. Canadian-born American writer Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway are the only Nobel literature winners with a connection to Canada: a curious omission since there have been many world-famous Canadian writers and the country has a rich and valued heritage in world literature. This lack of recognition has now been corrected with the awarding of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature to Alice Munro. Highly respected and much-honoured as Canadian master of the short story, Munro has been referred to as the Canadian Chekov. Her books are not about spies, muscular superheroes, intrigue, violence, depravity or even history-changing events. Her long and successful writing career has concentrated instead on quiet human dramas and contemporary stories that deal with ordinary people living in rural and small-town Ontarioa world that she knows well and that is instantly recognizable to many readers. Concentrating mainly on true-to-life situations of women and girls, Munros writing delves into how human interactions attempt to rationalize the chaos of life and the continuum of time past, present and future. That she has used the under-recognized genre of the short story to weave her literary magic makes her achievement all the more extraordinary. Alice Munro was born and grew up in Wingham, Ontario, in the rich farmland south of the Bruce Peninsula. She studied journalism at the University of Western Ontario in nearby London and married fellow student James Munro. Their move to British Columbia to raise their family and open a bookshop in Victoria helped rekindle the interest in writing she had had from her teenage years. Munros Books

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STRUGGLING READERS
Why Band-aids Dont Stick and Worksheets Dont Work

Tools & Tips for Reading

Reading in the Real World
Strategies for nding meaning in stories, songs, poetry, ads, movies, comics, and more! Graham Foster
32-pg ipbook ISBN 978-1-55138-271-5 $12.95

Struggling Readers
Why band-aids dont stick and worksheets dont work Lori Jamison Rog
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-292-0 $24.95 coming in February 2013

LORI JAMISON ROG

The practical strategies in this insightful book show teachers how to give struggling readers g in Com Soon! what they really need. Struggling Readers delivers advice on targeted teaching, guided practice, and, most importantly, confidence building.
Supporting students in grades 3 - 9

Explore the bascis of reading from focusing on meaning and using powerful strategies before, during, and after reading, to using familiar genres to understand new forms of text. This intensive little book offers effective ways to read all text forms well, and with enthusiasm.

Ban the Book Report

Promoting frequent and enthusiastic reading Graham Foster
112 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-264-7 $24.95

Deeper Reading
Comprehending challenging texts Kelly Gallagher
224 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-384-0 $28.95

This passionate book argues that the literacy work we do should encourage reading and an appreciation for books. It offers more than 20 assignments that will inspire students and persuade them to respond to their reading in innovative ways.

This funny, poignant book offers proven tips, tools, and strategies that enable students to monitor their comprehension, employ effective fix-it strategies, think metaphorically, use critical thinking skills, and much more.

I Read It, But I Dont Get It

Comprehension strategies for adolescent readers Cris Tovani
152 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-089-4 $26.95

The Novel Experience

Steps for choosing and using ction in the classroom Larry Swartz
32-pg ipbook ISBN 978-1-55138-200-5 $12.95

A practical, engaging account of how to help teens develop better reading comprehension skills. This thoughtful book decodes the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement.

Move beyond the typical novel study with this refreshing exploration of how and why we read. With practical tips for everything from getting started to new ways to share response, this handy flipbook has everything you need to revitalize reading.

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When Spelling Matters

Developing writers who can spell and understand language Doreen Scott-Dunne
136 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-277-7 $24.95

Though spelling may not matter as students explore the creative side of writing, when communication is key, spelling matters. This straightforward book argues that we learn to spell by investigating how words work, and recognizing the unique structure and patterns of words. Based on the belief that students need mulitple strategies to help them spell, this practical book delivers a series of explicit lessons that address the developmental nature of spelling and encourage students to apply their growing word knowledge to their own writing and editing. When Spelling Matters is committed to nurturing writers whoawe, love bag, words, are inspired by metaphors word and cut, see language anger, big, birth, blunder, both, cake,and call, cast,origins, cosy, cross, asdirt, a valuable resource toflat, be explored This love of guess, language will enable die, drag, drown, egg, flounder,deeply. gain, get, gift, give, guest, gust, hug, husband, ill, kid, law, leg, lift, likely, link, loan, loose, low, students to find their true voice when they write, and produce pieces that are a mistake, odd, race, read, raise,and root, rotten, same, scale, scare, score, seat, seem, pleasure to edit, share with others. sister, skill, skin, skirt, skull, sky, stain, steak, sway, take, though, thrive, Thursday, tight, till (until), trust, ugly, want, weak, window, wing, wrong
Students may want to check out Wikipedia first, but because Wikipedia is open source knowledge, they should always confirm their discoveries through a second From inside When Spelling Matters source, such as an online etymological dictionary at www.etymonline.com/ (developed by Douglas Harper, a historian, author, and journalist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania) www.merriam-webster.com/, which has word origins, a vocabulary quiz, a word of the day, and an app for iPads Consider that, while the Merriam-Webster dictionary is a reliable source for word origins, a single source on the Internet could simply be Joes bright ideas. Just as all books are not equal, neither are all Internet sites, so emphasize to students that double sourcing is important, and that they will need to learn which online sources are the most reliable and credible.

Discovering and Creating Narratives About Words

Where Did These Words Come The origins of words, especially words derived from someones name (e.g., sandFrom? wich), may seem somewhat random to students, but once they look more deeply, The word hippopotamus comes they will usually find some order. Consider, for example, the origins for the from the Greek word hippos, meanwords hippopotamus and rhinoceros (at left). ing horse and potamus, meaning Knowing word origins can pique interest in word study and help students to river. So, hippopotamus literally means river horse. Somehow, I dont remember spellings. Many words lend themselves to the development of a real or think he would take well to being perceived back story. ridden! The description refers to his size and where he lives. This word came to England via the Romans, Back stories who used a hippodrome to have chariot race, involving horses. People remember narrative more easily than isolated words since we tend to link (page 331) The word rhinoceros comes from story with images; therefore, students could represent word narratives by making the Greek word, rhinokeros, from up stories like the examples below, which are embellished truth. The information rhis meaning nose and keras, horn. about the hippopotamus is true and it is important that the derivation is true Nose horn describes the animal but otherwise poetic licence can be taken. well, as his horn is a significant Pembroke Publishers 538 word Hoodfor Rd., Markham, ON, L3R 3K9 1-800-997-9807 fax 1-800-339-5568 www.pembrokepublishers.com feature. The same Greek nose, rhino, is used in rhinology, Example 1: the study of the nose, and rhinoMany years ago, an English traveler sailed all the way to Rome. Shortly plasty, surgery on the nose. (page 597)

Modeling & Mentoring

Write Like This
Teaching real-world writing through modeling & mentor texts Kelly Gallagher
264 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-896-8 $27.95

Poetry Corner
Poem Central
Word journeys with readers and writers Shirley McPhillips
232 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-963-7 $28.95 coming in April 2014

Help your students become better writers with these effective modeling practices! Write Like This uses model texts to emphasize real-world writing purposes: express/reflect, inform/explain, evaluate/judge, inquire/explore, analyze/interpret, and take a stand/propose a solution.

This comprehensive book is divided into 3 main parts: weaving poetry into our lives and Coming Soon! classrooms, reading poems, and writing poems. It is further divided into short, easy-to-read sections that have a specific focus, show poets at work, define poetic terms, feature classroom examples, and much more.

Exemplars
Your best resource to improve student writing Graham Foster & Toni L. Marasco
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-218-0 $24.95

Poems Please! 2nd Edition

Sharing poetry with children David Booth & Bill Moore
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-157-2 $18.95

Discover more than 50 mini-lessons, organized around 6 key traits of great writing. This practical book explores a wide variety of real student samples, along with strategies for using them to establish standards and generate more effective work.

The second edition of this classic favourite combines the rich history of poetry with the answers to every question around poetry in the classroom from reading aloud, to increasing word power, to assessment techniques.

10 Things Every Writer Needs Know

Je Anderson
256 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-810-4 $28.95

The Poetry Experience

Choosing and using poetry in the classroom Sheree Fitch & Larry Swartz
32-pg ipbook ISBN 978-1-55138-223-4 $12.95

Whether writing a blog entry or a high-stakes essay, there are essentials students need to know. This straightforward book focuses on developing concepts and application 10 vital aspects of good writing motion, models, focus, detail, form, frames, cohesion, energy, words, and clutter.

This playful, powerful guide offers strategies to help students reflect on what poetry means to them. From questions and short activities to full classroom events, this book offers proven steps for reading, writing, and responding to all forms of poetry.

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Ive Got Something to Say!

How student voices inform our teaching David Booth
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-289-0 $24.95

When students know that their voices count, they become more engaged with and connected to both their learning and issues that will affect their education. In this timely book, discover how to inspire students to buy into their own learning by giving them a voice in determining, organizing, structuring, and responding to what is happening in their classrooms and school. Throughout the book, transcripts from real student dialogues and conversations elaborate on a huge variety of interactions. At once practical and thoughtful, the book encourages offering opportunities for discussion and debate that will challenge students thinking and that of their peers in meaningful ways. It aims to increase, modify, and deepen student understanding through collaborative and cooperative events. Making student voices count is a first step toward meaningful citizenship. Students will recognize when they have voice, when they are marginalized, and what can prompts do to bewith heard. As you have demonstrated thesethey strategic your different text forms,
your students can then use them to make meaning with a particular text they encounter. Using them throughout the year will help your students to develop into strategic readers.

From inside Ive Got Something to Say

Strategy: Storytelling Exploring Its Forms and Potential

By Bob Barton
Storytelling includes the retelling of familiar stories as well as the development of new stories. It involves a performer narrating or enacting various roles to bring a story to life. As students retell a text, they can enrich and extend their personal hoard of words, ideas, stories, songs, and concepts, and deepen their understanding and appreciation of literature. Storytelling develops the ability to turn narration into dialogue and dialogue into narration. Storytelling activities can take many forms. Students can tell stories in a circle, with a partner in a frozen picture, chorally, or as narration for mime. They can improvise from the story, change the story, or find new stories to tell within the story. Storytelling can provide the initial starting point for drama work; it can reveal an unexplained idea in even a well-known story; it can focus particular details; it can serve as a review of what has already taken place; or it can be a way of building reflection in-role. Using picture books with little or no text, such as Tuesday by David Wiesner, students can describe in their own words what they see happening, sometimes supplying the characters with what they feel is appropriate dialogue. Showing students unusual and exciting pictures may also promote storytelling. Students may enjoy playing the different characters as they tell the story. Or they may dramatize a story while it is being told, assuming the parts of different characters (e.g., a witch, a bird, or two lost students). As the storyteller spins the tale, you as teacher may signal for someone to continue the story, or another student may choose to take over at a dramatic pause in the story. Pembroke Publishers 538 Hood Rd., Markham, ON, L3R 3K9 1-800-997-9807 fax 1-800-339-5568 www.pembrokepublishers.com In another variation, the students sit in a circle on the floor so that they can all see one another. A subject or style of story is then identified. A story is built as each student, in turn, contributes one (or two, or three, or more)
Bob Barton is a renowned storyteller, author, and educator, who teaches drama education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Drama & Literacy

This book is not about drama
Its about new ways to inspire students Myra Barrs, Bob Barton & David Booth
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-269-2 $24.95

Visual Literacy
Get Graphic!
Using storyboards to write and draw picture books, graphic novels, or comic strips Mark Thurman & Emily Hearn
96 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-252-4 $24.95

This must-read book offers a comprehensive approach to using role play and talk in meaningful ways. It offers simple strategies and model text to engage students, get them out of their chairs, and let them learn actively and socially.

Inspire students to write and draw with this creative look at artistic techniques, including light and shadow, point of view, perspective and grounding, layout and spatial relationships, and more.

Drama Schemes, Themes & Dreams

How to plan, structure, and assess classroom events that engage all learners Larry Swartz & Debbie Nyman
176 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-253-1 $24.95

Bringing the Outside In

Visual ways to engage reluctant readers Sara B. Kajder
156 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-401-4 $24.95

Organized around improvisation and interpretation strategies, this practical and useful book offers a host of sources for dramatic activity that include scripts, monologues, poetry, novel excerpts, and visuals.

Outside school, students are expert users of words, images, and music through texting, blogging, gaming. Inspire kids to create with authenticity by incorporating technology digital storytelling, visual think-alouds, wiki creation, and more.

The New Dramathemes, 3rd Ed.

Larry Swartz
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-141-1 $18.95

The Arts Go to School

Edited by David Booth & Masayuki Hachiya
160 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-175-6 $24.95

This remarkable third edition of a perennial classic include more than 100 games and drama activities to inspire students of any age. The activities use themes as a springboard for easy drama through mime, readers theatre, improvisation, tongue twisters, mask design, and much more.

Discover the power that the arts can hold for young adults in this unique collection of classroom-based activities that focus on each of the major art forms music, painting, drama, movement, media, and more. Get a glimpse into real classrooms where the art bring learning to life.

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Canada and the Nobel Prize

Biographies, portraits, and fascinating facts Harry Black
128 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-150-3 $18.95

Are you having trouble getting teens interested in history? Alice Munros 2013 Nobel Prize win offers a wonderful opportunitiy to explore history and historical events from a new perspective the stories of some truly fascinating inventors and innovators that have played a large part in the world we live in today. In addition to his recent work on Alice Munro (featured below), Harry Blacks Canada and the Nobel Prize offers a chance to explore the work of other amazing thinkers and creators, such as Frederick Banting, Saul Bellow, and Lester Pearson. Chronicling the lives of Canadian Prize recipients, as well as details of foreign Prize winners time in Canada, this thoughtful and beautiful book is sure to have a story that will intrigue and inspire every student.
Scan the QR code for the full biography of Alice Munro online, or visit: http://www.pembrokepublishers.com/giveaway/munro

As a companion to Canada and the Nobel Prize

Alice Munro
1931 Literature 2013

Words & art 2013 by Harry Black. Pembroke Publishers. All rights reserved. Permission to copy for classroom use. For more Canadian connections, see Canada and the Nobel Prize by Harry Black. ISBN 978-1-55138-150-3. $24.95

everal years ago we published a book about Canada and the Nobel Prize. In it, we outlined the history of the prize established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in 1901 and awarded each year in five categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace. An economics prize was introduced later. Canada and the Nobel Prize profiles the many Canadians who have received this prestigious award, beginning with Frederick Banting and his 1923 award in Medicine for the discovery of insulin. Throughout the years, Canadians have been well-represented in all categories except Literature. Canadian-born American writer Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway are the only Nobel literature winners with a connection to Canada: a curious omission since there have been many world-famous Canadian writers and the country has a rich and valued heritage in world literature. This lack of recognition has now been corrected with the awarding of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature to Alice Munro. Highly respected and much-honoured as Canadian master of the short story, Munro has been referred to as the Canadian Chekov. Her books are not about spies, muscular superheroes, intrigue, violence, depravity or even history-changing events. Her long and successful writing career has concentrated instead on quiet human dramas and contemporary stories that deal with ordinary people living in rural and small-town Ontarioa world that she knows well and that is instantly recognizable to many readers. Concentrating mainly on true-to-life situations of women and girls, Munros writing delves into how human interactions attempt to rationalize the chaos of life and the continuum of time past, present and future. That she has used the under-recognized genre of the short story to weave her literary magic makes her achievement all the more extraordinary. Alice Munro was born and grew up in Wingham, Ontario, in the rich farmland south of the Bruce Peninsula. She studied journalism at the University of Western Ontario in nearby London and married fellow student James Munro. Their move to British Columbia to raise their family and open a bookshop in Victoria helped rekindle the interest in writing she had had from her teenage years. Munros Books

Words & art 2013 by Harry Black. Pembroke Publishers. All rights reserved. Permission to copy for classroom use. For more Canadian connections, see Canada and the Nobel Prize by Harry Black. ISBN 978-1-55138-150-3. $24.95

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Canadiana
Canadian Scientists and Inventors, 2nd Edition
Biographies of people who shaped our world Harry Black
200 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-222-7 $24.95

Critical Thinking
Why Wont You Just Tell Us the Answer?
Teaching historical thinking Bruce A. Lesh
240 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-812-8 $25.95

This remarkable book covers over 200 years in 5 major areas of invention and innovation: communication, discovery, electronics, health, and transportation. It tells the fascinating stories of important inventions from apples to the BlackBerry, from steamships to jet engines, from vaccines to the laser. Full of entertaining anecdotes, with an original portrait accompanying each story, the book illustrates that Canada has given the world much more than hockey and maple syrup!

Forget dull memorization of names and dates! Teach history through a lens of interpretive questions and interrogative evidence that fosters historical thinking, and leaves a lasting impact on students.

Q Tasks
How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers Carol Koechlin & Sandi Zwaan
144 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-197-8 $24.95

Canadas Prime Ministers, Governors General, and Fathers of Confederation

83 portraits by Irma Coucill
184 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-185-5 $24.95

This step-by-step guide to critical thinking offers more than 80 flexible activities to help students ask real questions that focus on understanding and give them ownership over their learning.

This award-winning guide to our political history showcases Canadas rich heritage of leadership with 83 vivid portraits, each one accompanied by a concise biographical sketch. The book provides a unique look at the stories of the people who led our nation through such major historical events as Confederation, the world wars, the Great Depression, and much more. This essential reference includes the biographies and histories of 21 Prime Ministers, 26 Governors General, and 36 Fathers of Confederation.

Socratic Circles
Fostering critical and creative thinking in middle and high school Matt Copeland
176 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-394-9 $23.95

Socratic seminars can improve reading comprehension, oral and aural skills, and conflict resolution skills. With numerous real-world examples, this complete guide takes you from start-up to assessment.

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Real Life Literacy

Classroom tools that promote real-world reading and writing Kathy Paterson
128 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-204-3 $24.95

C. Demystifying Labels

Help your students build the literacy skills they need to function in the real world with this range of practical tools that promote everyday reading and writing. 25 lessons clarify the connection between the classroom and the outer world and emphasize the importance of all types of communication. Each lesson features related vocabulary, a motivational activity, and teaching strategies, along with hands-on samples of common but often misunderstood forms, notices, data sheets, and messages. Follow-up activities and reproducible pages provide opportunities for students to practice and gain confidence in their new skills. Aimed at meeting the needs of individual students, the book explores personal planning tools and real-world literacy tasks, such as creating a resum, completing a job application, deciphering prescription labels, interpreting transportation schedules, and much more.

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Labels, labels everywhereand all of them so different! Today almost every product that can be purchased has a label describing contents, uses, cautions, and time usage guidelines. At best, labels can be perplexing; at worst, they can be ignored. How often do you play ostrich when faced with a particularly confusing label? Do you make believe that the label is not even there rather than try to fathom exactly what its content means to you? Now, put yourself in the innocent shoes of your students and try to imagine how bewildered they must feel in similar situations. We can help. We can teach our students how to make sense of labels, how not to be frightened by them, but how to treat them as part of daily life. The following anecdote reveals the bewilderment that one child felt when faced with a situation involving label interpretation. Claire was babysitting, and not for the first time. Her two young charges seemed perfectly healthy if one could judge by their boisterousness, but at bedtime both were being medicated for colds and coughs. When Claire went to administer their medicine, though, she noticed that the label read 1 T. BID. Having no idea what that meant, Claire tried to call the childrens parents, then, when unsuccessful, her own parents. She got no answer. After agonizing deliberation, Claire chose to not give the children any medicine, in case she gave them too much or too little. This was not a grave error, but Claire was so worried about her decision that by the time the parents returned, she was in a state of despair, feeling sure she had somehow jeopardized the health, even the lives, of the children in her custody. Claire did not have to suffer the anxiety of being confused by a label. A knowledgeable teacher could have taught her to decipher the various real-life literacy codes and symbols commonly used on these abbreviated documents. Musician Pete Seeger once stated, Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you dont. Teachers can help their students to not only read the fine print, but to understand it and make use of it. fax 1-800-339-5568 www.pembrokepublishers.com Pembroke Publishers 538 Hood Rd., Markham, ON, L3R 3K9 1-800-997-9807 As well as the labels on medicine bottles, students can be readily instructed in how to correctly decipher labels found on clothing and food items. These are broad categories and I think its safe to say that many, if not most adults will admit

Getting Ready for Life

Desperately Seeking Solutions
Helping students build problem solving skills to meet lifes many challenges Kathy Paterson
96 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-247-0 $24.95

Content-Area Literacy
Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms
Essential practices for developing academic language and disciplinary literacy Je Zwiers, Susan OHara & Robert Pritchard
288 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-997-2 $32.95 coming in March 2014

Meet problems head-on with this 5-step plan for handling almost any situation from defining the problem, through considering options and choosing the best one, to taking decisive action.

Discover 7 research-based teaching practices for developing complex language and literacy skills across grade levels and content areas.

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Reading in the Real World

Strategies for nding meaning in stories, songs, poetry, ads, movies, comics, and more! Graham Foster
32-pg ipbook ISBN 978-1-55138-271-5 $12.95

Exploring Writing in the Content Areas

Practical ways to support writing in any subject area Maria Carty
128 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-188-6 $24.95

Explore the basics of real-life reading from focusing on meaning and comprehension strategies, to using familiar genres to understand new forms of text.This intensive little book offers effective ways to read all text forms well, and with enthusiasm.

Innovative ways to guide students through the various stages of the writing process, and teach them to focus on the purpose for writing in all kinds of nonfiction, from English to science to social studies.

When Spelling Matters

Developing writers who can spell and understand language Doreen Scott-Dunne
136 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-277-7 $24.95

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?

Content comprehension, grades 612 Cris Tovani
144 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-376-5 $26.95

As students text, IM, and get imaginative with writing, spelling can easily fall by the wayside. But word and language skills are still important, because when communication is key, spelling matters.

Clarify tricky textbooks, model the reading process, and help your students really understand your course content. Samples of student work and tips for balancing content and reading instruction, round out this vital guide.

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A math assessment tool that reveals learning and informs teaching

ANIE

The ANIE
A math assessment tool that reveals learning and informs teaching Kevin Bird & Kirk Savage
96 pp ISBN 978-1-55138-296-8 $24.95 coming in February 2014

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Discover a powerful tool that will revolutionize your classroom teaching and Grade : Date : learning in math, all in a single page! The ANIE (Assessment for Numeracy Problem: in Education) is a teacher-developed tool that uses performance standards to evaluate student comprehension, and plan timely and targeted instruction intervention where they are needed most. This straightforward book Makeand your best guess. Explain your strategy. introduces a single-page assessment template, designed for students in grades 1 through 12, that is both complex enough to fully align with curriculum Show how to solve. expectations and simple enough to use as a learning tool every day. It describes Draw a Sketch Calculate a 4-step process for solving any math question, and offers proven techniques for introducing the template. Accessible to all teachers, whether they are generalists or math specialists, The ANIE provides the necessary tools to actively engage students in making meaning from math, and connecting math concepts to the real world.
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Building neural connections In 1949, behavioral psychologist Donald Hebb theorized that learning links brain cells in new ways. He said that when neurons fire repeatedly and at the same time, the neurons build stronger connections between each other. Carla Shatz of Stanford University summarized Hebbs findings by saying that brain cells that fire together, wire together (Doidge, 2007, p. 427). What this means is that each time students complete an ANIE, they strengthen the connections between brain cells about how to solve a problem. The neural network helps students remember what to do for each ANIE.

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The ANIE uses a consistent framework that lets students focus on the process of solving math problems. We use the term templating to refer to the process of developing automaticity with the steps needed to solve math problems using the ANIE, as a result of repeated practice. Students who regularly use the ANIE framework begin to view a math question through the framework. Also, teachers who use the ANIE begin to view teaching through the same framework. Triggering one step of the framework results in triggering the other steps. When considering an equation, an ANIEtrained brain automatically cues all the steps of the template. Through repeated use of the ANIE, templating works to create efficient and strong neural connections between the brain cells used to complete the different steps of the ANIE. This creates a habit of the mind.

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Conceptual Thinking
Its All Relative
Key ideas and common misconceptions about ratio and proportion Anne Collins & Linda Dacey
98-pg ipchart ISBN 978-1-57110-982-8 $22.95 coming in Feb. 2014

Content-Area Literacy
Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms
Essential practices for developing academic language and disciplinary literacy Je Zwiers, Susan OHara & Robert Pritchard
288 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-997-2 $32.95 coming in March 2014

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This simple flipchart includes more than 30 modules that will help you provide students with key conceptual understandings of ratios and proportional thinking.

Discover 7 research-based teaching practices for developing complex language and key comprehension skills across grade levels and content areas.

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The Xs and Whys of Algebra

Key ideas and common misconceptions Anne Collins & Linda Dacey
76-pg ipchart ISBN 978-1-57110-857-9 $19.95

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?

Content comprehension, grades 612 Cris Tovani
144 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-376-5 $26.95

An introduction to formal algebra that explores 4 essential algebraic concepts: using variables meaningfully, using multiple representations for expressions, connecting algebra with number and geometry, and manipulating symbols with understanding.

Do you wonder where reading comprehension fits into math class? The key to successful problem solving lies in understanding. Help your students improve reading skills, learn to deconstruct math language, and face word problems head on!

Zeroing In on Number and Operations

Key ideas and common misconceptions Anne Collins & Linda Dacey
78 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-799-2 $19.95

So What Do They Really Know?

Assessment that informs teaching and learning Cris Tovani
184 pp ISBN 978-1-57110-730-5 $27.95

Easy-to-use tools for teaching and learning in number theory and integers, percentages, and ratios. This easy-to-use flipchart provides 30 lesson modules that will help students develop both their conceptual understanding and computation skills.

How are your students progressing? How do you plan instruction to get them to the next level? This simple book explores the complex issues of monitoring and assessing with fairness and fidelity.

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