Live support with locating the right sources for your needs—Charlotte can Skype or phone conference with member schools by appointment to locate just the right curricula.
Schools and districts contracting with on-site consultation will work with Charlotte to develop customized assessments, student resources, and curricular units. Knox Education will take care of the design and deliver electronic copies for district-wide use.
*Test Chat forms will be available in the spring 2016
**WPT = Writing Performance Tasks (sample writing exercises for students to practice and hone their writing skills based on CAASPP language and protocol, with sample videos, pictures, or articles as indicated)
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Just $499 for a single school; full access for all staff through July 2019.
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Talking Walls is a great resource for teachers that want examples of want can be done inside the classroom to hook students into learning and sup
port achievement gains. The entire book is built upon actual student work and teacher made products representing the interactions and processes that were generated from state adopted curricula. Data walls, effective writing programs, rigorous instruction focusing on intentional and meaningful work using academic language, and student engagement are all represented on the walls of this new book by Michelle Karns and Charlotte Knox.The pictorial presentation is well supported by a running dialogue explaining
why the authors targeted these examples. A CD Toolkit of 40 strategies assembled from the best of these classrooms and the author’s work in schools is included with each book.
To purchase, you can order it from Knox Education by contacting us directly, or buy online via PayPal by using the form below:
Backwards Planning for Success with Writing is a K-8 comprehensive toolkit to support implementation of a schoolwide writing campaign. This easy-to-use handbook is based on teaching writing through the gradual release model of instruction. Icons for each phase of the model: I Do-You Watch, We Do-You Help, You Do-I Help, and You Do-I Watch, are used throughout to signal to the teacher the level of scaffolding suggested.
The toolkit includes the following for all the taught standards K-8:
Suggested lesson plans for six week cycles of instruction
Rubrics and kid-friendly checklists
Graphic organizers
Student-friendly “how to” charts for each genre
Academic language frames where needed
Mini-lessons on specific techniques of writing
Anchor papers as exemplars
What’s new in the new edition:
150 pages of additional writing tools, mini-lessons, and writing project ideas have been included from teachers around the state
Each genre-specific section now includes a suggested six week plan for teaching
100+ photos from classrooms show the strategies in action
Standards-based rubrics and student checklists now are included in teacher and kid-friendly versions
Suggestions for scaffolding instruction for English learners are included throughout the book
This handbook was built from the last 10 years of consulting with schools around the state.
Information Please is a directory of strategies for supporting English language development through content area learning. Learn 26 powerful strategies aimed at accelerating achievement for your EL students. This A-Z handbook will provide you with lesson plans, and any necessary blackline masters.
Co-Authored by Charlotte Knox and Allene Flanders,
Information Please is a directory of strategies for supporting English Language Development through content area learning.
Learn 26 powerful strategies aimed at accelerating achievement for your EL students.
This A-Z handbook will provide you with lesson plans, and many necessary black line masters.
Here’s what educators are saying:
“Many wonderful ideas, VERY do-able!!!”
“Wow! I’m finding myself applying strategies almost automatically”
“Thank you! I really appreciate all the strategies that we can consider as we begin school-wide that could provide students better access to curriculum-AWESOME!”
Using this book as a resource, Charlotte and Allene have developed a 40-hour institute that received Advanced AB466/SB472 Houghton Mifflin Training Certification last year. They have been teaching this course district-wide in two regions. With a focus on lesson delivery, this dynamic duo shows teachers how to make the HM program user-friendly for EL students.
Literacy Scaffolds for English Language Learners
This video training series was developed to help teachers close the achievement gap by accelerating learning for every child. Each boxed set of two videos comes complete with the 44-page Viewer’s Handbook.
Staff developers, literacy coaches, ELL teachers, administrators anyone interested in improving teaching and accelerating learning for ELL students will benefit from the Literacy Scaffolds Staff Development Video series.
