Debbie Diller & Associates Educational Consulting

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Books by Debbie Diller

Simply Small Groups: Differentiating Literacy Learning in Any Setting
Organized by developmental reading stages—emergent readers, early readers, transitional readers, and fluent readers — Simply Small Groups shows how to engage students where they are, regardless of grade level, and help them progress to the next stage. You’ll learn how to assess student skills and needs, flexibly organize groups, plan and teach lessons, select appropriate texts, and differentiate instruction to give every reader a pathway to success. You'll find phonics and phonological awareness, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension strategies and tools for each reading stage along with helpful at-a-glance charts and over 100 full-color photos of ideas. There's an online companion with downloadable teacher and student resources for planning and instructional use, too.

Simply Stations Series
Debbie Diller’s Simply Stations series streamlines and organizes proven literacy station / literacy center ideas into manageable chunks, station by station, to walk you through planning and organizing and on to teaching in whole groups and moving kids into partner practice.

Every book provides answers to the perennial challenge, “What are the other kids doing while I’m teaching in small groups?” Plus, every book shows you how to make literacy stations more than just busy-work centers. Perfect for Kindergarten through 4th grade classroom teachers. Click the book covers on the left for details.

Growing Independent Learners: From Literacy Standards to Stations, K-3
This resource is filled with standards-based lessons that lead to high-quality literacy stations. You’ll find everything from sample whole group lessons, anchor charts, small group extensions, mentor texts and fresh new ideas for partner practice at stations. Full-color photos accompany the text to inspire you to develop independent readers, writers and thinkers.

Math Work Stations: Independent Learning You Can Count On, K-2
If you've ever questioned how to make math stations work, you'll find this photo-filled, idea-packed resource invaluable. This book extends Debbie Diller's best-selling work on literacy work stations and classroom design to the field of mathematics. In Math Work Stations you'll find ideas to help children develop conceptual understanding and skills, use math vocabulary as they talk about their mathematical thinking, and connect big ideas to meaningful independent exploration and practice. This full-color book details how to set up, manage, and keep math stations going throughout the year. There's even a chapter devoted solely to organizing and using math manipulatives.

Spaces & Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy
This book works in tandem with Debbie’s other books from Stenhouse Publishers as it shows how to build the physical foundation or structure for quality instruction. In it, you’ll find over 300 full-color photos of PreK-5th grade classrooms for inspiration and direction in setting up your classroom. Through pictures and text, this unique visual reference answers tough questions about space that educators ask, such as:

What do I really need in my classroom and what’s the best way to set it up?
How does my physical classroom impact student learning?
How can I find the space I need to teach more effectively?
What can I get rid of and how?
Where do I put all my stuff?

Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation For All
This book by Debbie focuses on small group reading instruction and how to get more power from your lessons. It is structured around the five reading components-- comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary-- and provides practical tips, sample lessons, lesson plans and templates, suggestions for related literacy work stations, and connections to whole-group instruction. You will love the ideas on organizing your time and resources and will appreciate the "research at a glance" and questions for using this resource in a book study.

Practice With Purpose: Literacy Work Stations for Grades 3-6
In this book, Debbie shows teachers of grades 3-6 how to structure their classrooms so that all students can be successful doing meaningful independent work using literacy work stations. Practice with Purpose offers guidance on establishing routines for independent reading and response writing, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to set up and manage a variety of hands-on literacy work stations appropriate for intermediate students.

Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work
This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year.

Classroom Tools by Debbie Diller

Debbie Diller: More Than a Classroom Library - TEKS™ Flip Chart K-2
This vertically aligned flip chart is designed to make your life easier as you become familiar with and begin implementing the new TEKS™. Debbie Diller has worked with every version of the TEKS™ (and related state tests) across her career! She brings her vast expertise and teaching wisdom to this brand-new offering from Steps To Literacy. This innovative TEKS solution is designed with the teacher in mind — offering tools to help educators understand and implement the freshly minted TEKS™. Available to order by clicking this cover photo.

Debbie Diller: More Than a Classroom Library - TEKS™ Flip Chart 3-5
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TEKS™ English Model Text Set - Each, grade-specific
TEKS Model Text includes 25 hand-selected titles PLUS the TEKS Teacher Companion written by Literacy Expert, Debbie Diller. The Teacher Companion includes BOTH English and Spanish TEK support with 10 Lessons That Last ™ (LTL)per grade/per language for grades K-2 PLUS other excellent instructional support materials. Click this cover photo to find all Model Text Sets available.

Online Courses by Debbie Diller

Starting a Successful Summer Reading Program
This 2 hour online course is based on a series of instructor videos and resources that guide participants through the process of starting a summer reading program. It includes tools that teachers can use for monitoring and evaluating, as well as resources and fun activities to engage readers.

Growing Independent Learners: An Online Course through Stenhouse Publishers
Learn with Debbie Diller to develop more meaningful, standards-based literacy work stations for your K–3 students. At the end of this self-paced, six-lesson online course, you will be able to make connections naturally between your state’s ELA standards and what you’re teaching in whole-group mini-lessons and in literacy work stations.

DVDs by Debbie Diller

DVD - Moving into Math Stations, K-2
Building on the enormous success of her book Math Work Stations: Independent Learning You Can Count On, K–2, Debbie Diller brings the world of math stations to life in this DVD, showing viewers how they too can effectively incorporate math stations into their instruction, enhancing students' conceptual understanding and skills.

DVD - Think Small!
Engaging Our Youngest Readers in Small Groups. If you want to see small reading groups in action early in the year in kindergarten and first grade, this DVD is for you! Filmed in a Title I school, you'll see Debbie work with bilingual teachers, Estella Perez and Maria Diaz-Albertini to choose books, plan lessons, organize, and teach small groups for reading in their classrooms. Debbie works with different groups of students on English oral language, rhyming, reading, and writing. You'll see whole group lessons that connect to small group, a tour of the kindergarten small group teaching area, and tips for helping students work independently. This video was a delight to create, and you'll find it a welcome companion to Debbie's book, Making the Most of Small Groups.

DVD - Spotlight on Small Groups
See small groups in action. Debbie teaches two different reading groups in this DVD—one with a vocabulary focus using nonfiction and the other with a focus on inference in a fiction book. Use with Making the Most of Small Groups for a professional study group. For grades 2-5.

DVD - Fluency Rubric
In this video, Debbie explains fluency to a group of 3rd grade bilingual students and models how to use a fluency rubric so they can self-assess on a 4-step scale. For grades 2-5.

DVD - Launching Literacy Stations: Mini-Lessons for Managing and Sustaining Independent Work K-3
Literacy work stations are being embraced in many elementary schools as a way to ensure students of all ages are completing thoughtful, challenging tasks while their teachers meet with small groups of students. Literacy Work Stations, takes you into two primary classrooms to demonstrate how to create a thriving stations program.