Amy Benjamin challenges the idea of "skill and drill" grammar instruction, and Tom Oliva provides a teacher's journal chronicling how the concepts in this book can work in a real classroom.

NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar provides this much-needed resource for teachers who wonder what to do about grammar—how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught.

Katie Wood Ray explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary and middle school students learn to write from their reading.

A practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.

Students use this printout to evaluate both their own performance in a group as well as the actions of their group members.

Using this printout, students make personal associations to a text by finding and describing text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.

After students read a short story or chapter of a novel, they can use the Narrative Pyramid to reflect on key ideas and details.

After students read an article or other work of nonfiction, they can use the Nonfiction Pyramid to reflect on key ideas and details in the text.

This printout offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and affixes that give students access to hundreds of key concepts across the content areas.

Connection Stems give students the language (and a reminder) to support their understanding by tying new learning to what they know about themselves and their world.

This printable extends the familiar K-W-L's means of organizing students' prior knowledge, formulating inquiry questions, and recording new learning by adding space for questions for further inquiry.

Students use this graphic organizer to describe similarities and differences between three objects or ideas.

As part of an I-Search writing process, this handout facilitates the formation of meaningful questions and subquestions for student inquiry.

This chart asks students to consider their challenges and successes across the span of the research process, from question formulation to the final write-up.

This printout assists students with generating meaningful questions about a topic and organizing their writing by using a structured guide while researching.

This printout teaches students a method for organizing their thoughts that involves assigning "powers" to different ideas. This outlining technique helps students differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.

This printout provides prompts that help students reflect on and process new information and think critically, and offers teachers the opportunity to differentiate upcoming instruction based on these reflections.

This rubric is designed to be used for any oral presentation. Students are scored in three categories—delivery, content, and audience awareness.

This concept map can be used in a variety of ways to show relationships between words and phrases. Students can add arrows as needed and group certain ideas together.

This rubric is designed to be used for any Readers Theatre performance. Students are scored both individually in the areas of delivery and cooperation and as a group in the area of active, on-task participation.