Overview of STEPS Professional Development Resource Books

Mathematics (Grades K-9) 

First Steps in Mathematics

Helping teachers to identify and correct students’ misconceptions about mathematics.

Based on cutting-edge research, First Steps in Mathematics develops and expands teachers’ understanding of mathematics and how children learn mathematics. First Steps in Mathematics enables teachers to successfully diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate their students’ learning experiences in four strands - Number, Measurement, Space, and Chance and Data. Diagnostic Tasks and Diagnostic Maps within each strand help teachers to identify students’ misconceptions about mathematics. Sample lessons and learning activities provide teachers with practical and simple ideas to support students’ development.

Revealing What Students Think – Diagnostic Tasks for Fractional Numbers

Revealing What Students Think presents thirty, easy to use Diagnostic Tasks designed to reveal what students really think and understand about fractions. 

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Elementary Literacy (Grades K-5) 

First Steps Literacy 2nd Edition

Helping teachers address current challenges in reading, writing, speaking & listening and viewing.

First Steps 2nd Edition builds on the original First Steps by drawing upon contemporary research to help teachers address current challenges. It provides teachers with comprehensive Maps of Development that help them assess and monitor student needs and also provides explicit links to purposeful teaching and learning experiences. First Steps 2nd Edition includes detailed support material that will enhance learning and help teachers build effective classroom plans.

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Secondary Literacy (Grades 6-12) 

STEPS Middle and High School Literacy

Helping students learn subject matter in all content areas through effective reading strategies.

STEPS Middle and High School Literacy provides content area teachers with a selection of powerful teaching ideas and tools that help secondary students build a repertoire of reading and learning strategies. Using these strategies students meet the reading demands and learn content in all courses. STEPS Middle and High School Literacy also explores the reading process, making it more tangible for content area teachers and their students.