Most Popular Books by Pam Allyn

Read Pam Allyn''s posts on the Penguin Blog The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives. In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for children to begin to reflectively engage with and understand the world around them. Not only can parents entertain their child and convey the beauty of language through books, they can also share their values and create lasting connections. Here, Allyn offers parents and caregivers essential advice on choosing appropriate titles for their children—taking into account a child’s age, attention ability, gender, and interests— along with techniques for reading aloud effectively. But what sets this book apart is the extraordinary, annotated list of more than three hundred titles suitable for the pivotal moments in a child’s life. With category themes ranging from friendship and journeys to thankfulness, separations, silliness, and spirituality, What to Read When is a one-of-a-kind guide to how parents can best inspire children through reading together. In addition, Pam Allyn includes an indispensable “Reader’s Ladder” section, with recommendations for children at every stage from birth to age ten. With the author’s warm and engaging voice throughout, discussion questions to encourage in-depth conversations, as well as advice on helping kids make the transition to independent reading, this book will help shape thoughtful, creative, and curious children, imparting a love of reading that will last a lifetime. These Penguin Young Reader''s Books are referenced in What to Read When Sylvia Jean: Drama Queen by Lisa Campbell Ernst (Penguin Young Reader’s Group: 2005) Two Is For Twins, by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, illustrations by Hiroe Nakata (Penguin Young Readers: 2006) Remember Grandma? by Laura Langston (Penguin Group (USA): May 2004) Soul Looks Back in Wonder compiled by Tom Feelings (Puffin Books) Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Penguin Books USA, Incorporated: December 1957) When I was Young in the Mountainsby Cynthia Rylant illustrated by Diane Goode (Penguin Young Readers Group: January 1993) Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie DePaola (Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, Inc.:1973) Good Night, Good Knight by Shelly Moore Thomas, illustrations by Jennifer Plecas (Penguin Young Readers Group: 2002)

An illuminating resource to help parents foster a love of writing in their child''s life--filled with writing prompts, engaging home learning activities, and more. New educational research reveals that writing is as fundamental to a child''s development as reading. But though there are books that promote literacy, no book guides parents in helping their child cultivate a love of writing. In this book, Pam Allyn, a nationally recognized educator and literacy expert, reminds us that writing is not only a key skill but also an essential part of self-discovery and critical to success later in life. Allyn offers the "the five keys" to help kids WRITE-Word Power, Ritual, Independence, Time, and Environment-along with fun, imaginative prompts to inspire and empower children to put their thoughts on the page. A groundbreaking blueprint for developing every child''s abilities, Your Child''s Writing Life teaches parents how to give a gift that will last a lifetime.

Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. For more information on the Core Ready program, see Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards ISBN: 9780132907460. The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument is one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher. It is a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become Core Ready. Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Enter through this door in the Core Ready program to understand how to teach students to use evidence to understand and formulate opinions about what they read, and to craft powerful arguments by writing and sharing ideas. The book guides teachers and students through three rich and dynamic lesson sets: Grade 3: Stand Up for Series: Collaborative Author Study Grade 4: Poetry Wars: Interpreting and Debating Meaning in Poems Grade 5: Making the Case: Reading and Writing Editorial The Power to Persuade teaches students to articulate their own viewpoints and to defend these opinions with clear, concise, cohesive arguments in ways that are not only intuitive, but also informed. Each lesson set emphasizes citing specific evidence to support one''s ideas and refute opposing opinions. Effective listening, conversation, and oral speaking behaviors when discussing, collaborating or debating with peers, are also highlighted. Click here to take a virtual tour!

Learn how to increase students'' skills as writers and storytellers with an innovative, inclusive, and empowering framework for teaching writing that centers student voice. Tell Your Story: Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers explores how to help students see themselves as writers and storytellers who are developing the skills and techniques to communicate in ways that resonate with various audiences. When students make that shift and see themselves as active and valued participants in their own communities, cultures, and literary journeys, they become powerful writers eager to explore and share ideas. With the strategies in this book, you can * Create an environment of belonging that fosters creativity and confidence. * Demonstrate the value of oral and visual storytelling. * Teach story structure, both old and new and in a variety of genres. * Offer a variety of role models and exemplars through mentor texts. * Assess and confer with student writers to help them improve their skills. * Value students'' voices as future agents of change. When you help students unlock the stories they want to tell, you''ll see writing anxieties and resistance fade as students come alive to the multitude of ways in which they can make their voices heard. Storytelling can be a wellness practice, a tool for empowerment, and a method for self-understanding and self-expression. For all students, storytelling is a path to lifelong learning and to realizing the full power of their voice and their potential to change the world.

This professional resource equips K-12 students with the skills they need to be critical readers in the 21st century. Today''s reader is reading across multiple genres, on phones and tablets, with text in hand, and also online, and this helpful book provides educators with techniques on how to teach students to read on every platform and in every genre, to struggle with text, and to break through to new ideas when reading text. It focuses on the habits that students must form in order to gain the confidence to access all texts across all platforms. Each chapter is devoted to developing the five habits for successful reading: reading closely, widely, critically, deeply, and purposefully. Grounded in the latest research, the easy-to-implement strategies and instructional methods will help students cultivate strong reading skills in the 21st century classroom.

Provides a detailed curriculum uniquely designed for second graders and their growing command of literacy.

In this revised edition, Allyn and Morrell address how the 7 Strengths framework is needed more than ever in a post-pandemic world. They show how building on children''s strengths while immersing them in a literature-rich classroom community can transform them into "super readers"-avid readers who grow together as they read and share their ideas with a sense of belonging, curiosity, friendship, kindness, confidence, courage, and hope.

Essential resource to help boys create a sustainable reading life with rich resource lists of best books as well as practical lessons that encourage discussion and habits for reading

A collection of homework pages that kids will really want to do--all designed to promote independent learning, a key outcome of the Common Core State Standards!

This book is a one-stop resource for understanding how to turn the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Readers get rich, day-to-day, step-by-step guidance for implementing the Common Core State Standards and ensuring that all K-2 students are core ready. The Road to Knowledge focuses on helping students navigate informational texts and become able to cite evidence by reading and listening carefully to nonfiction topics and discovering important and interesting facts and details. Grade K-Connecting the Dots: Topics and Details in Informational Text Grade 1-Navigating Non-Fiction Grade 2-What''s The Big Idea: Using Text Features to Locate Key Information Teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, and content area teachers, plus parents and caregivers

Created specifically for middle school teachers, Pam Allyn''s dynamic Core Ready Program provides a complete toolkit for navigating and thriving with the core standards. In it teachers see clearly how to take complex concepts of the literacy standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday instruction. The series is organized around the author''s Four Doors to the Core: The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique The Shape of Story: Contemporary and Classical The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument Each book in the series includes powerful reading, writing, speaking, and listening sets; assessment rubrics; support for ELLs and diverse learners; and tips for doing high tech variations for literacy instruction for grades 6, 7, and 8.

"Pam Allyn shares the big ideas and specific tools for building a year-long unified reading and writing curriculum. She focuses on four key components: the development of good reading and writing habits, a knowledge of genre, an awareness of and application of strategies, and a growing understanding of how to use conventions effectively"--p.[4], cover.

Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. For more information on the Core Ready program, see Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards ISBN: 9780132907460. The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique is one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher. It is a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become Core Ready. Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Enter through this door to in the Core Ready program to bring comprehension, critique and composition of literary texts to the classroom. This book specifically encompasses the strategies and skills all students need to comprehend, critique, and compose literary texts as outlined in the Common Core State Standards. It guides readers through three rich and dynamic lesson sets: Grade 3: Mirrors and Windows: Exploring Characters in Reading and Writing Grade 4: Point of View: Drama and Prose Grade 5: What''s the Point?: Theme in Short Text, Poetry, and Son[2] g The lesson sets use high quality texts from diverse genres-drama, prose, short text, poetry, and song-to develop critical thinking skills and help students dive deeply into the text to uncover character complexity, central themes, messages, and meaning. The use of quality literature and teacher modeling inspires them to compose their own writing Core Ready also supports all diverse learners. Special needs students are deeply valued and coached in the Core Ready classroom. The lessons and approach help them to reach and exceed standards. The attention to diverse learners is powerful and profound and will deeply inspire. Click here to take a virtual tour!

Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. For more information on the Core Ready program, see Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards ISBN: 9780132907460. The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Today is one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher. It is a rich, day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become core ready. Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Enter through this door in the Core Ready program to bring the power of literary narrative with a focus on the importance of theme, character, and story structures from both yesterday''s and today''s literature to the classroom. Readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and teaching toward accomplishment of the narrative and archetypal story-centered goals in the standards. Teachers and students are guided through three rich and dynamic lesson sets that staircase up, giving teachers an opportunity to work together across grade levels to be sure goals are met, each with complete step by step reading and writing lessons that center on the fundamental aspects of story itself as seen in the standards, along with guidance for speaking, listening, and language use: Grade 3: Tales with a Message: Unlocking and Exploring Folktales Grade 4: Enduring Themes: Central Message in Traditional Text Grade 5: Imagined Worlds/Human Themes: Reading and Writing Fantasy Through these lesson sets, students gain an understanding of the unique structure, craft, and terminology associated with each genre outlined in the Common Core Standards, in this case, the genres of traditional stories, fantasy and folktales. They focus on the ways an author conveys meaning to an audience and learn how these methods vary depending on purpose and genre. And through the experience that is built, students become comfortable and familiar with the technicalities, tools, and elements of storytelling, which in turn builds strong readers, writers, and speakers. Click here to take a virtual tour!

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. The Shape of Story—Yesterday and Today provides lessons to turn the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning in narrative literacy—a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide on how to implement the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and how to ensure that all students are core ready. Included are rich, dynamic lesson sets, each with complete step by step reading and writing lessons, as well as highlights for speaking, listening, and language use. Through these lesson sets, readers gain an understanding of the unique structure, craft, and terminology associated with each genre with an emphasis on classic and contemporary literature as outlined in the Common Core State Standards. It is a book for teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, professors and students of education. Visit http://pdtoolkit.pearson.com to purchase access to the PDToolkit for Pam Allyn''s Core Ready Series. The PDToolkit access does not come with the print book. PDToolkit for Pam Allyn''s Core Ready Series is a supplemental online subscription-based resource that provides the tools that educators need to implement the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. The PDToolkit, together with the texts, provides the tools you need to ensure a standards-aligned year of joyful, effective, research-based literacy curriculum.

Full-colour photographs showcase eight easy-to-implement management strategies and dozens of innovative, practical ideas, each accompanied by explicit, easy-to-follow instructions. From arraging furniture and creating kid-friendly storage space to designing flexible teaching areas and planning schedules, the author shows teachers how to create a highly productive classroom environment. They also describe classroom-tested routines for reading and writing instruction--whole class, small group, and independant practice--including the read-aloud, spelling and word work, and across-the-curriculum integration.Reproducible weekly planning sheets, record-keeping systems, status of the class checklists, and forms to monitor and document learning.Sample schedules and strategies for establshing classroom routines and expectations.Grade-specific units of study to start the year on the right foot.

A one-stop shop for the standards-hungry student and teacher, this series provide a rich, day-to-day, step-by-step guide for implementing the standards and ensuring that all students are core ready. About the Series: Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday instruction. The series is founded on the author''s 4 Doors to Core Ready framework, an easy to use yet strikingly brilliant way to access and organize all of the content within the standards. Created specifically for middle school teachers, renowned literacy authority Pam Allyn''s dynamic Core Ready Program provides a complete toolkit for navigating and thriving with the core standards. In it teachers see clearly how to take complex concepts of the literacy standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday instruction. The series is organized around the author''s Four Doors to the Core: The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Todayl The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument Each book includes powerful reading, writing, speaking, and listening sets; assessment rubrics; support for ELLs and diverse learners; and tips for doing high tech variations for literacy instruction for grades 6, 7, and 8. New teachers learn to teach by practicing the lessons that are included. Professors can assign the lessons for practice in the classroom and for discussion in study groups. And master teachers in the classroom can use the lessons to teach seamlessly, maintaining what they love and do already, incorporating these lessons to complete and fulfill the guidelines and goals of the standards. The Shape of Story: Yesterday and Today guides teachers and students through three rich and dynamic lesson sets: Grade 6--Packing a Punch: The Art and Craft of Short Stories Grade 7--Examining Cultural Perspectives: Historical Fiction and Drama Grade 8--Revealing Character: The Hero''s Journey

This book provides practical strategies for how to implement core ideas for the classroom, school, and home communities. All students can be college and career ready scholars-reading, writing, speaking, listening, and using language in real world ways. This book answers all your questions about how to master core teaching and core learning. And it''s all about what you, your students, and their families can do right now to become Core Ready.

This book is part of Pam Allyn''s highly popular Core Ready program, a dynamic series of books that gives educators critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. Using the information presented in the series, educators see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. The books address the needs of all learners, including ELL and special needs diverse learners, and cover the uses of technology and new media. The Power to Persuade focuses on the understanding and recognition of the essential structures of opinion and argument through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Included are lesson sets on: Grade K-I Have a Voice: What Is an Opinion? Grade 1-What I Think and Why: Supporting Ideas with Reason Grade 2-5Ws and 1H: Advertising and Promotional Writing The grade K lessons lay the foundation for understanding opinions. The grade 1 lessons build on this understanding and introduce the concept of using evidence and reason to support an opinion. And the grade 2 lessons put the skills to work in a rigorous but exciting and fun set of lessons with real-world implications that bring the ideas to life. Additional attention is devoted to developing effective listening, conversation, and speaking behaviors when discussing, collaborating, or debating with peers. With this book as a guide student see how to: Recognize and develop opinion and argument through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Foster an awareness of purpose and point of view by examining the views of others and developing individual ideas and voice. Consider their own passions, viewpoints, and reasoning by exploring opinion in real life, literature, and a variety of persuasive genres. Practice effective listening, conversation, and oral speaking behaviors.