Heinemann Professional Development firsthand Professional Support

firsthand Professional Support: Course List

Heinemann Professional Development proudly offers firsthand Professional Support. Designed by our authors and delivered on-site by Heinemann-trained consultants, firsthand Professional Support deepens teachers' understanding of these classroom materials and gives them the professional insight needed to teach with greater skill and sophistication.

With a deeper understanding of the thinking underlying each firsthand offering, your teachers will be ready to maximize every instructional moment, every day-as well as to engage in professional decision making that takes them beyond the resource's framework.

Course List

Strategic Writing Conferences:
Smart Conversations That Move Young Writers Forward
Grades 3–5
Developed by Carl Anderson

Effective writing conferences are more than one-on-one check-ins with students. Guided by clear instructional purposes, teacher-student conversations become an indispensable means to move writers forward on their individual, developmental learning journeys. Anderson's new firsthand resource helps demystify conferring for teachers by revealing the predictable structure underlying effective conferences and providing a collection of 100 such instructional conversations....more >

Interactive Read-Alouds:
Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension
Grades K–1, 2–3, and 4–5
Developed by Linda Hoyt

Interactive Read-Alouds is a powerful resource that helps teachers recast read-alouds of treasured favorites as springboards to deeper understanding of comprehension strategies, literary devices, and writing traits. This course reveals the principles behind the resource and how to put those principles into practice....more >

Units of Study Across the Year in a
Primary and Intermediate Writing Workshop
Grades K–2 and 3–5
Developed by Lucy Calkins and colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

This firsthand course is now offered through the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. For detailed information, please call 800.238.5892.more >

The Primary Comprehension Toolkit
Grades K–2
Developed by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have adapted the strategy instruction made famous in Strategies That Work and The Comprehension Toolkit to meet the developmental needs of our youngest readers.... more >

The Comprehension Toolkit
Grades 3–6
Developed by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

The Comprehension Toolkit emphasizes active literacy—reading, writing, talking, listeng and investigating—and in this firsthand course, your teachers will discover how to use the Toolkit to develop these crucial comprehension skills and know-how to improve instruction, and even begin to write lessons.... more >

Teaching the Qualities of Writing
Grades 3–8
Developed by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi

Whether your teachers are novices or veterans, Teaching the Qualities of Writing will increase their confidence and flexibility by focusing on the key characteristics all well-written pieces share. Developed with Ralph Fletcher and Joann Portalupi... more >

Phonics Lessons and Word Study Lessons
Grades K–3
Developed by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas

Good teaching is crucial to young readers' development, and Fountas and Pinnell's Phonics and Word Study Lessons supports the kind of instruction that emerging readers need. In this firsthand course, your teachers will begin with an instructional... more >

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