14 must-read nonfiction books like Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development by Chip Woods

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Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

By: Chip Woods

4.32

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Helping children grow and learn starts with understanding their development! Drawing on decades of…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development by Chip Woods , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning

By: Peter H. Johnston

4.15

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills: they build emotionally and rel… read more

Similar categories in Peter H. Johnston's Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • parenting
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • teachers
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2. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)

By: Judy Blume

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether … read more

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3. Rules

By: Cynthia Lord

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This Newbery Honor Book is a heartfelt and witty story about feeling different and finding acceptan… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Lord's Rules book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

"rules"

-Cynthia Lord, Rules

"No toys in the fish tank "

-Cynthia Lord, Rules

"Just this once, let it be easy."

-Cynthia Lord, Rules

"...choosing words is harder than I thought."

-Cynthia Lord, Rules

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4. Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It

By: Eric Jensen

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eric Jensen, author of Teaching with the Brain in Mind, examines how poverty hurts children, famili… read more

Similar categories in Eric Jensen's Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • education
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5. Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day

By: None , Alison Porcelli , Cheryl Tyler

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Play is serious business. Whether it's reenacting a favorite book (comprehension and close reading)… read more

Similar categories in None's Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • education
  • teaching
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6. Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap

By: Paul C. Gorski

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author draws from decades of research to deconstruct popular myths, misconceptions, and educati… read more

Similar categories in Paul C. Gorski's Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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7. Rain Reign

By: Ann M. Martin

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Rose Howard has Asperger's syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms (even her name is a homonym). S… read more

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8. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

By: John Medina

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovere… read more

Similar categories in John Medina's Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • education
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9. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

By: Zaretta Lynn Hammond

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement… read more

Similar categories in Zaretta Lynn Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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10. The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools

By: Liz Wiseman , Elise Foster , Lois N. Allen

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When you become a Multiplier, your whole team succeeds! Why do some leaders double their team's eff… read more

Similar categories in Liz Wiseman's The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • education

11. Successful Strategies for Pursuing National Board Certification: Version 3.0, Components 3 and 4

By: Bobbie Faulkner

4.05

Format: None pages,

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12. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

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"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

13. Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.31

Format: 256 pages,

Made to Crave is the missing link between a woman s desire to be healthy and the spiritual empowerm… read more

Similar categories in Lysa TerKeurst's Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

14. El Deafo

By: Cece Bell , None

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At… read more

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15. The First Six Weeks of School

By: Paula Denton

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Watch children's learning blossom all year long when you lay the groundwork with the help of this c… read more

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16. The Lemonade Crime (The Lemonade War, #2)

By: Jacqueline Davies

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Following the laws of our legal system, Evan and Jessie's fourth grade class concocts a courtroom o… read more

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17. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

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18. Odder

By: Katherine Applegate

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, s… read more

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19. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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20. The Fort

By: Gordon Korman

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five fri… read more

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21. Dragons in a Bag (Dragons in a Bag, #1)

By: Zetta Elliott

3.86

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author!When … read more

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22. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

By: Judith Heumann

4.48

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more

Similar categories in Judith Heumann's Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"

-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"

-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

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23. Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)

By: Kelly Yang

4.42

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Mia Tang thinks she’s going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Three Keys (Front Desk, #2) book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

"The pain broke my heart into a thousand pieces."

-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)

"the worry that if he didn’t take every single thing, a part of him would be lost forever."

-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)

"But you can't give up on people. It's one of the three keys of friendship. You gotta listen, you gotta care, and most importantly, you gotta keep trying."

-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)

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24. The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development

By: Elena Aguilar

4.36

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Develop transformational professional development programs that build and sustain your school commu… read more

Similar categories in Elena Aguilar's The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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25. Shouting at the Rain

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

4.14

Format: 6 pages, Audio CD

Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's … read more

Similar categories in Lynda Mullaly Hunt's Shouting at the Rain book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

"So."

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

"the sun is always in the sky but sometimes you just can't see it"

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

"I'm lucky. When the waves are rolling in, my friends are the jetties."

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

"He was the one who told me a man is not made by his mistakes. He's made by what he does about them."

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

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26. Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

By: Shane Safir

4.27

Format: None pages, ebook

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we erad… read more

Similar categories in Shane Safir's Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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27. Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom

By: Jan Burkins

4.39

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

The current emphasis on the body of research known as the "Science of Reading" has renewed the read… read more

Similar categories in Jan Burkins's Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Teaching Self-Discipline: The Responsive Classroom Guide to Helping Students Dream, Behave, and Achieve in Elementary School by Laurie Badge

28. Teaching Self-Discipline: The Responsive Classroom Guide to Helping Students Dream, Behave, and Achieve in Elementary School

By: Laurie Badge

4.51

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Help students develop the intrinsic motivation to take care of themselves, each other, and their ow… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Badge's Teaching Self-Discipline: The Responsive Classroom Guide to Helping Students Dream, Behave, and Achieve in Elementary School book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
Cover of Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development by Chip Woods

29. Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

By: Chip Woods

4.32

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Helping children grow and learn starts with understanding their development! Drawing on decades of… read more

Similar categories in Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • parenting
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • education
  • teachers
Cover of Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students by Ken Williams

30. Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students

By: Ken Williams

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you imagine being empowered with the knowledge work with super-charged confidence because you… read more

Similar categories in Ken Williams's Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of Identity-Conscious Educator: Building Habits and Skills for a More Inclusive School (Create a Research-based  Learning Environment That Allows Students of all Backgrounds to Learn and Grow Together.) by Liza A. Talusan

31. Identity-Conscious Educator: Building Habits and Skills for a More Inclusive School (Create a Research-based  Learning Environment That Allows Students of all Backgrounds to Learn and Grow Together.)

By: Liza A. Talusan

4.36

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn powerful, practical strategies for creating an inclusive school community. The Identity-Consc… read more

Similar categories in Liza A. Talusan's Identity-Conscious Educator: Building Habits and Skills for a More Inclusive School (Create a Research-based  Learning Environment That Allows Students of all Backgrounds to Learn and Grow Together.) book and Chip Woods's Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development

  • nonfiction
  • education

5 Best psychology books like Yardsticks: Child and Adolescent Development by Chip Woods

Transform Your Habits

Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning

Peter H. Johnston

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It

Eric Jensen

3.11

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

John Medina

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools

Liz Wiseman , Elise Foster , Lois N. Allen

1.00

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16 Top fiction books like The Fort by Gordon Korman

Transform Your Habits

How to Become a Planet

Nicole Melleby

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

Transform Your Habits

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Gordon Korman

4.31

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Alan Gratz

4.15

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