Fisher Nancy: 51 books
Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives
Comprehending, Analyzing and Discussing Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and...
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 9–12 in this resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You’ll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work™ process....
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 6–8 in this resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You’ll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work™ process....
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades K–2 in this interdisciplinary resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You’ll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at...
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 3–5 in this interdisciplinary resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You’ll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at...
Responsive Curriculum Design in Secondary Schools
Meeting the Diverse Needs of Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
More than ever before, as they teach to an increasingly diverse population, educators need a clear, concise guide to designing and implementing responsive curriculum. This book, built around the lessons of classroom teachers, provides the 'how' of instruction design. The first section identifies the...
by Fisher Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Instructional materials directors job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these...
Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12
Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Ensure students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of learning during a school year
Renowned literacy experts Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey work with John Hattie to apply his 15 years of research, identifying instructional routines that have the biggest impact on student learning, to literacy...
How to Reach the Hard to Teach
Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you—the students who are "hard to teach." Maybe they're reading far below grade level. Maybe they're English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they're underachieving for...
Teaching with Tablets
How do I integrate tablets with effective instruction? (ASCD Arias)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In the few short years since tablets were introduced, they have become a popular addition to classrooms across all grade levels and content areas. By putting this device in the hands of students and teachers, we can grab hold of their interest, interact with content on a more personalized level, and...
The Formative Assessment Action Plan
Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Join Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher as they outline a clear-cut, realistic, and rewarding approach to formative assessment. They explain how four discrete steps work in tandem to create a seamless, comprehensive formative assessment system—one that has no beginning and no end. This ongoing approach...
Productive Group Work
How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented—and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved. In this book, educators Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Sandi...
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
Building Equity
Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Imagine a school with a diverse student body where everyone feels safe and valued, and all—regardless of race, culture, home language, sexual orientation, gender identity, academic history, and individual challenges—have the opportunity to succeed with interesting classes, projects, and activities....