We’ve included a list of journal and book publications from the last few years. Please support your local, state, and national professional organizations by engaging with them through membership and readership!

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Productive Group Work: How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding is our newest ASCD book and a companion to Better Learning for Structured Teaching. This book, written with our colleague Sandi Everlove of TeachFirst, focuses on the benefits and quality indicators of collaborative learning tasks. In addition, there are lots of tips about how to establish, manage, and extend productive groups in the classroom. Click here for ordering information, sample chapters, and a study guide.
Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle is our newest publication with Heinemann. Background knowledge is a critical component of comprehension, but one that is often neglected because assessing, activating, building, and extending can be challenging. In the coming months you’ll find more helpful resources on the Heinemann website, including preview chapters, study guides, podcasts, PowerPoint slides, and downloadable videos. Click here for ordering information.
Learning Words Inside and Out Grades 1-6 is our second Heinemann book. It complements our grades 7-12 vocabulary book and focuses on the needs of elementary learners. Visit the Heinemann to preview chapters, and download free video and study guides. In addition, we have prepared free PowerPoint slides for each chapter and they are also available at the same website. You’ll also find a needs assessment rubric to gauge your progress toward taking meaningful vocabulary instruction schoolwide. Click here to find these helpful resources.
Checking for Understanding is our first book published by ASCD and explains how we use oral language, questioning, written work, products, common assessments and consensus scoring to determine when and how our students are learning. Click here to view preview chapters, download a study guide, and order this book on methods for using formative assessments in your classroom.
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is available through ASCD and can be accessed via the following link (click here to access). You can preview sample chapters and download a study guide. The book discusses a gradual release of responsibility model of instruction that includes focus lessons (modeling), guided instruction (scaffolding), collaborative learning (productive group work), and independent learning (homework, spiral review, extension).
Content Area Conversations is our newest book from ASCD  and can be accessed via the following link (click here to access). We’re honored that Shirley Brice Heath wrote the foreword to this book on planning discussion-based lesson plans for English learners. We collaborated on this with our colleague Carol Rothenberg.
In a Reading State of Mind: Brain Research, Teacher Modeling and Reading Comprehension is our first book with the International Reading Association and reflects our interest in bridging the fields of neuroscience and reading comprehension. Written with our colleague Diane Lapp, the book includes a DVD of classroom teachers using principles of modeling in reading to promote learning. (click here to access) You can also read the first chapter at this site.
Word Wise and Content Rich Grades 7-12 details our work on schoolwide vocabulary development at the secondary level. We discuss a framework that focuses on making it intentional, transparent, useable, personal, and most of all, a priority. Click here to download free podcasts and videos to accompany each chapter.
Language Learners in the English Classroom is another collaborative effort with our colleague Carol Rothenberg, and is published by the National Council of Teachers of English. he challenges of learning English while learning in English is particularly challenging for adolescents who are facing increased content demands. This book, written for English teachers, explains how vocabulary, fluency, grammar, and comprehension instruction fit into standards-based instruction. (click here to access)
Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work came from our work with the talented teachers of Hoover High School in San Diego, CA. Each chapter describes one of the eight schoolwide instructional routines implemented at the school, with descriptions of lessons in mathematics, history/social science, English, science, and elective classrooms. It is published by Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall and is available from Amazon and can be accessed via the following link (click here to access).
Reading for Information in Elementary School is a companion book to Improving Adolescent Literacy and uses a similar format to describe how educators in grades K-5 use schoolwide instructional routines of read alouds and shared reading, vocabulary development, anticipatory activities, graphic organizers, notetaking and notemaking, questioning, and writing to learn to increase reading achievement. It is available from Amazon and can be accessed via the following link (click here to access).
We wrote Good Habits, Great Readers with our colleague Adam Berkin to extend the conversation on reading comprehension of elementary and middle school students. We see reading as a lifelong habit that begins with being able to see themselves as readers, make sense of text, use what they know, understand how stories work, read to learn, and analyze using a critical literacy stance. This book is available from Amazon and can be accessed via the following link (click here to access).
50 Content Area Strategies for Adolescent Literacy is a collaboration with Gay Ivey and William Brozo and offers a reader-friendly quick guide to research-based instructional routines for use in secondary classrooms. Each guide provides a short research review, a step-by-step explanation of how to use it, and a lesson in a content area classroom. It is published by Pearson Allyn & Bacon/Merrill and is available via the following link (click here to access).
Language Arts Workshop: Purposeful Reading and Writing Instruction explains how a gradual release of responsibility model of instruction is used in elementary reading and language arts instruction. Chapters explore fluency, comprehension, oral language, phonics, vocabulary, and spelling are developed through reading and writing. The book includes extensive assessment tools, and a CD of children’s literature and is available via the following link (click here to access).
Scaffolded Writing Instruction: Teaching with a Gradual Release Framework came from our development and teaching of a writing class at a public school. Using a scaffolded approach, students improved their writing through interactive writing, generative sentences, daily fluency-building exercises, and writing models. This book is published by Scholastic and is available via the following link (click here to access).
Teaching Visual Literacy is an edited book that examines how graphic novels, anime, cartoons, picture books, and film are used in classrooms to build reading comprehension using a critical literacy stance. It is published by Corwin and is available via the following link (click here to access).