PD Guides
In response to frequent requests, we have developed a series of free study and facilitation guides to help educators use our books and videos in a variety of PD settings. These guides have been written in close consultation with our authors and have been tested successfully in K-12 schools throughout the country.
We offer two types of PD Resources: Study Guides and Read, Share, Teach Facilitation Guides. Both sets of resources are free, downloadable PDF files available from our website.
Study Guides
Our study guides focus on a specific book and contain the discussion points and activities that form the foundation for workshops and study groups built around the book. And if you haven't read a particular book, the study guides may help you decide if it is applicable to your teaching situation.
Below is a list of the study guides currently available for FREE on-line:
Are They Really Reading? by Jodi Crum Marshall
Beyond Leveled Books by Karen Szymusiak and Franki Sibberson
Knowing How by Mary C. McMackin and Barbara S. Siegel
Living the Questions by Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power
Making Problems, Creating Solutions by Jill Ostrow
Nonfiction Matters by Stephanie Harvey
On the Same Page by Janet Allen
Reconsidering Read-Aloud by Mary Lee Hahn
Strategies That Work (First Edition) by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Strategies That Work (Second Edition) by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Think Nonfiction! by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Thinking Through Genre by Heather Lattimer
Read, Share, Teach Facilitation Guides
We call these PD resources Read, Share, Teach (RST) because we believe these actions lie at the heart of significant change in the teaching profession. The RST Facilitation Guides provide groups of educators with the structure and tools for running their own study groups focused on a group of related Stenhouse titles (including both books and videos). The guides are divided into multi-part workshops and provide step-by-step explanations for guided professional reading, collaborative activities, careful assessment of student work, and assignments for testing teaching strategies between sessions. The existing guides-available for free online-feature books and video resources by these Stenhouse authors:
Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
Joanne Hindley
Harvey Daniels
Debbie Miller
Diane Snowball and Faye Bolton
Cris Tovani
Jean Boreen, Donna Niday, Joe Potts, and Mary K. Johnson
Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak
To download the FREE RST Facilitator Guides and to purchase the books and videos necessary for the workshops, click here.
In addition to these free PD resources, every Stenhouse video comes packaged with a viewer's guide that provides guidance for using the videos in a professional development setting.
