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CLC sells any book in the Corwin Catalog.

Some of our best sellers are:

Differentiated Assessment Strategies:
One Tool Doesn't Fit All

- by Carolyn Chapman and Rita King
$ 32.95

Empower students to self-assess and improve performance with these ready-to-use assessment strategies and tools! Do you have a full toolbox to gather ongoing assessment information to pinpoint student needs and plan instruction? Do you believe a student’s interests can leverage academic success? Would you like to help your students grow as reflective self-assessing thinkers? With this classroom-friendly guide, you’ll become a better teacher as you learn to assess students before, during, and after instruction.

Packed with tools, surveys, checklists, questionnaires, assignments, organizers, guidelines, and rubrics, Differentiated Assessment Strategies addresses informal as well as formal assessments, and assessments before, during, and after learning for learners of all types and levels, including K-12, special needs, and gifted students. In addition to application of the latest research, you’ll become skilled in novel assessment tools that provide immediate feedback. Chapman and King provide ready-to-use tools to:

Evaluate and activate students’ prior knowledge
Transform homework into rich learning opportunities
Draw higher order thinking from ALL students
Assess learning to offer feedback to students
Assess learner preferences, as well as cognitive styles and multiple intelligences
Determine student comprehension and requirements for reteaching
Build students' metacognitive power to self-assess their own learning
Use assessment strategies to build a positive learning culture and energize your students!

"Differentiated Assessment Strategies is a bible for assessment strategies that you will keep nearby for easy reference in planning and implementing classroom assessment. The use of this book will take away the mystery on how to guide and monitor students’ performances."
From the Foreword by Marti Richardson, NSDC Past President


Differentiated Instructional Strategies:
One Size Doesn't Fit All
. Second Edition

- by Gregory and Chapman
$ 32.95

This teacher-friendly guide to differentiating instruction will help you find the strength and uniqueness in every child in your classroom.  Differentiated Instructional Strategies presents the practical techniques and processes that teachers can use to adjust learning based on individual students' knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs.  Are you looking for the best and newest practices in pedagogy?  This book explores the ones that make a real and positive difference in student achievement.  Centers, Projects, Problem-Based Learning, Inquiry Models, and Contracts are all featured, complete with explanations and examples.  More than 50 planning models matrixes, rubrics, checklists, and questionnaires are included as well, to help teachers make the right decisions about instruction and assessment on an individual basis.


Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas
- by Chapman and King
$ 32.95

Now in one book, you will find specific, explicit strategies for teaching writing at the same time you teach content.

This concise guide helps you work with each student's unique skills and needs so that the student learns to apply information, to demonstrate content mastery, to think and write creatively and critically, and to solve real-world problems.  Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas helps you develop students with lifelong self-direction and confidence as writers!

Detailed chapters give you the tools you need to work with student writers of all levels:

  • Creating a Climate for Writing lets you create the "Write Spot" for each student.
  • Knowing the Writer helps you recognize the developmental stages of each student's writing abilities.
  • Diagnosing and Assessing Writing Problems offers checklists, rubrics, scales, and more, as well as "Sixteen Words for the Wise" as solutions.
  • Flexible Grouping for the Writing Process is a must while students work through the various steps of the writing process.
  • Instructional Strategies and Activities supplies novel strategies that motivate, including personification, "jump start" prompts, rhymes and riddles, an 40 writing A-Z tips.
  • Curriculum Approaches discusses the use of Choice Boards, Agendas, and Lesson Plans to meet each student's needs, during and after the writing experience.

  • Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas
    - by Chapman and King
    $ 32.95

    Every teacher can be a reading teacher with an assist from differentiated instructions experts Carolyn Chapman and Rita King. This teacher-friendly guide to infusing phonics, word analysis, vocabulary development, and comprehension strategies into subject-area instruction uses the same eclectic blend of differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, scaffolding, constructivism, co-op learning, and other teaching methods an learning activities as the original Differentiated Instructional Strategies volume by Gregory and Chapman.  By linking reading in meaningful ways learning and classroom achievement.

    This book presents reading skills and strategies to teach phonics, word attack skills, vocabulary development and comprehension using content materials.  Learn how to give students the tools they need to interpret, retain, recall and apply information in all subject areas.  Move students from positions of hopelessness to empowerment with specific strategies they can use in all subjects.  They will enjoy the reading gimmicks, tips and tricks. Don't pass up the opportunity to give your struggling readers and non-readers the gift of empowered reading.


    Test Success in the Brain-Compatible Classroom
    - by Chapman and King
    $ 39.00

    Create a positive environment where students anticipate and find success. Set the stage to make test-taking an experience that leads to lifelong learning for your students. Take the guesswork out of the process with Test Success in the Brain-Compatible Classroom. It provides you with practical applications including brain-compatible strategies, classroom activities, and real-life examples. You've seen brain-compatible resources for the classroom. Now take advantage of the latest information on the brain and testing for your school, your students, and for yourself. Use these new ideas and tools to empower your students and enable their learning accomplishments to shine in their performance.


    If the Shoe Fits: How to Develop Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
    - by Chapman
    $ 37.95

    This cutting-edge resource translates Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences into practical teaching methods for classroom use. It offers information and "how-to" advice for identifying and developing students' strengths and weaknesses. There is a chapter devoted to each of the eight intelligences and it has over 300 ideas for use in any classroom.


    Multiple Intelligences Through Centers and Projects
    - by Chapman and Freeman
    $ 32.95

    This detailed guide is a must have for any teacher planning student focused learning. The first part of the book offers an overview of the multiple intelligences theory and a step-by-step plan to implement, manage and assess centers and projects teaching. Part two offers over 700 practical ideas of centers and projects for classroom use.


    Multiple Assessments for Multiple Intelligences
    - by Bellanca, Chapman, and Swartz
    $ 37.95

    This best-selling book shows you how to develop assessment strategies for specific intelligences. This edition is updated with the naturalist intelligence.


    Making the Shoe Fit CD
    - by Chapman
    $ 16.00 + $2.50 shipping

    Songs based on Carolyn's beliefs that educators and parents make the difference in the walk of life of children as they walk the learning journey. Carolyn shared with Connie Ryals and her sister Sonya Bailey what she wanted in the first seven songs. Then Connie and Sonya, both educators, believers, song writers, and singers, took these ideas and put them to verse.

    Fun songs including "Mac-A-Lena" and "Lu Lu" will put music enjoyment in the classroom for a real learning experience. Performance tracks (music only) are included for your convenience.

    We all have learning strengths that are developed into talents and gifts. We also have areas of weakness that can be strengthened through learning experiences and by believing in ourselves.


     

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    Creative Learning Connection, Inc.
    P.O. Box 572
    Thomson, GA. 30824

    Phone: 706-597-0706
    Fax: 706-597-0705
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    cchapman@carolynchapman.com

     

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